• Home
  • Lutheran learning experience
    ▼
    • Learning in a Lutheran school
    • What is a Lutheran education?
    • Parenting and schools – a learning partnership
  • Learning Journeys
    ▼
    • K-12 in Lutheran schools
    • Queensland Certificate of Education
    • Tertiary ready
    • Vocational Education and Training
    • Outdoor Education
    • International students
    • Boarding
    • Service Learning
  • Latest News
  • Find A Lutheran School
  • MyLEQ
  • Contact
  • About us
    ▼
    • About us
    • Our proud history
    • Our team
  • Careers
    ▼
    • Why work for Lutheran Education Queensland?
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer
  • Staff Portal
  • Careers
  • Contact
  • MyLEQ
  • Search

Lutheran Education Queensland

Inspired learning for life

MENUMENU
  • Learning experience
    • Parenting and schools – a learning partnership
    • Learning in a Lutheran school
    • What is a Lutheran education?
  • Insider insights
  • Learning Journeys
    • Service Learning
    • Boarding
    • International students
    • Outdoor Education
    • Vocational Education and Training
    • Tertiary ready
    • Queensland Certificate of Education
    • K-12 in Lutheran schools
    • Overview
  • News
  • About us
    • Our team
    • Our proud history
    • About us
    • Job Openings
  • Find a school
Home / Principals Retreat with a difference

Principals Retreat with a difference

It would not be an exaggeration to describe 2020 as having been unrelenting. The intensity, the uncertainty, the complexity, and the end of ‘normal’ have all compounded to provide an environment where there is no respite. None.

Last Thursday afternoon and Friday, the Principals joined me, Steph Maher, and Rev. Mark Vainikka in the city for a spiritual retreat that epitomized 2020 in that it was anything but normal. We gathered at an inner-city hotel with a COVIDSafe plan, we met for sessions in a room large enough to seat hundreds in any other year, and we retreated.

The word retreat is both a noun and a verb. Defined as ‘an act of moving back or withdrawing’ or ‘a period or place of seclusion for the purposes of prayer and meditation’. As one Principal commented, in the intensity of the here and now, there is almost a feeling of guilt about withdrawing even for the purposes of prayer and meditation.

But withdraw we did, around a wonderful retreat program planned and led by Steph and Mark that challenged us, caused us to pause and reflect, and allowed all to just ‘be’ for 24 hours. There was even barefoot walking in a park.

Thank you to Steph and Mark. You were and are a blessing to us all. And thank you to Principals for your commitment to replenish your spiritual fuel tanks in an unrelenting 2020.

                                        “The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.”

                                                  Exodus 14:14

Dennis

Find a Lutheran school near you

Search now

Footer

Lutheran Education Queensland logo - white reversed

REGIONAL OFFICE

Level 2, 24 McDougall Street
Milton Q 4064
PO Box 1535, Milton Q 4064
T:  (617) 3511 4050

Home

  • Careers
  • Contact
  • News
  • About us
  • MyLEQ
  • Copyright and privacy

LEQ Experience

  • What is a Lutheran education?
  • Learning in a Lutheran school
  • Parenting and schools – a learning partnership

Find A School

  • Find by location, service and name

Learning Journeys

  • K-12 in Lutheran schools
  • Queensland Certificate of Education
  • Tertiary ready
  • Vocational Education and Training
  • Outdoor Education
  • International students
  • Boarding
  • Service Learning

© 2023 Lutheran Education Queensland