Make Room
Faire Place
2022
Make Room
Annual Elim Conference & Retreat 2022
September 19th – 22nd
We are excited to announce we can finally meet together in person for our conference! This year our conference theme is to Make Room!
What are we making room for?
- We are making room for an emerging generation.
- We are making room for multi-generational expression.
- We are making room for a fresh anointing of the Holy Spirit.
Elim Lodge Christian Retreat & Conference Centre
Elim Lodge Christian Resort and Conference Centre is an evangelical, non-denominational Christian Resort and Retreat Centre, a family vacation resort, known as a “Place of Physical and Spiritual Refreshment” for more than 65 years. Elim operates as a not-for-profit corporation, Elim Ministries Inc.
Elim Lodge is spread over 48 acres of treed, landscaped grounds, and provides the perfect setting for your holiday or retreat, offering a variety of accommodations from bright, spacious motel rooms to cottages with beautiful views of Pigeon Lake, as well as apartment suites, with some right by the lake… never too far away to hear the quiet call of the loons.
Email Us Any Questions
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Location
Elim Lodge Christian Retreat & Conference Centre
Daily Schedule
7:00pm - Monday September 19th
Evening Session
Ralph Byma
A freewill offering will be received during this session
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10:00am - Tuesday September 20th
Morning Session
Inter-Generational Forum
During our morning meetings we will be talking about creating room for generations to interact with and support one another.
2:00pm - Tuesday September 20th
Annual General Business Meeting
For all voting members
* Everyone is welcome to join us, but only active credentials members will be able to vote
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7:00pm - Tuesday September 20th
Evening Session
Alex & Jodi Seidler
A freewill offering will be received during this session
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10:00am - Wednesday September 21st
Morning Session
Inter-Generational Forum
During our morning meetings we will be talking about creating room for generations to interact with and support one another.
2:00pm - Wednesday September 21st
Free Time
7:00pm - Wednesday September 21st
Evening Session
Alex & Jodi Seidler
A freewill offering will be received during this session
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Thursday September 22nd
Departure
Speakers
Alex Seidler
Alex has been in full time ministry since 2006. He was a missionary for 12 years to East Asia where he led campus church planting teams and provided strategic missional leadership.
Alex currently is the Global Ministries Director at Elim Fellowship where he also serves on their Council of Elders. He is also the Executive Director for BASIC College Ministries. Alex holds a passion for revival and seeing the least reached places of the world reached for Jesus.
He is a graduate of both Elim Bible Institute and Roberts Wesleyan College. In 2009, he married his beautiful wife Jodi, and together they minister throughout the world believing for God’s heart and mission to be experienced in a fresh way. They are currently based out of Rush, NY.
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Jodi Seidler
Jodi served with Campus Target for 9 years with her time split between living in Asia and living in America. She is a graduate of Elim Bible Institute & College and Chesapeake Bible College and Sminary. Jodi and her husband Alex met at EBI&C and got married in 2009. They have been involved in evangelism, discipleship, and church planting. She is ordained through Elim Fellowship and is on staff as teh Director of International Growth in the Missions Department and she loves to travel the world.
Ralph Byma
Rev. Ralph Byma currently serves as the President of Elim Fellowship Canada as well as Pastor at Grand Valley Christian Centre in Brantford, Ontario, Canada.
In 1990 Ralph heard the Lord’s call to: “Build up, Comfort and Encourage My people”. Since then his passion has been to minister to pastors and leaders, encouraging them and strengthening them. Ralph has ministered in various nations, including Jamaica, Kenya, Pakistan, India, Tanzania, Mexico, the United States, and Canada. The preaching of the word is followed by the manifest presence of the Holy Spirit, bringing refreshing, transformation, and releasing the miracle power of God.
Ralph’s desire is to release the unique gifts and callings in people and see them experience God’s presence and live in God’s purpose. Ralph believes that the greatest joy is to know God. “The greatest tragedy of life is to miss God because to know God is to gain everything.”
Matt and Jen Robinson
Worship Leaders
Matt and Jen Robinson are worship leaders and songwriters who have a passion to see lives transformed through a lifestyle of worship. Married in 2015, Matt and Jen live in Bowmanville Ontario and are both credentialed with Elim Fellowship Canada. They currently travel and minister in different churches around Eastern Ontario.
Their passion to encounter the presence of God has allowed many people to connect with Him in new and refreshing ways. “Worship is about responding to the the amazing grace we receive every day from our heavenly Father. Because of Him, we’ve chosen to exchange a reasonable life for a revolutionary one!”
Samuel and Lisa-Marie Trudel
Worship Leaders
Lisa-Marie and Samuel Trudel have been married for 16 years now and have three beautiful children. Lisa-Marie completed a certificate in ministerial leadership with the Quebec Bible Institute in 2018 and since January 2019, they are in charge of the worship team of the Centre Chrétien Évangélique de Rouyn-Noranda. Their desire is to raise up praise and worship that will ascend to The Lord as a sweet-smelling sacrifice.
Pricing & Registration
Once again our Annual Retreat will be held at Elim Lodge Christian Retreat & Conference Centre located in Peterborough Ontario on the picturesque shores of Pigeon Lake.
This venue was chosen to provide a more central location for our Ontario and Quebec constituents as well as to provide a more relaxed atmosphere that would be favourable to supporting two of Elim Canada’s core values; freedom of worship in which we experience the manifest presence of God and the ministry of the Holy Spirit among us and the building of strong relationships.
Pricing
Single
(taxes included)Couple
(taxes included)Children
(taxes included)Teens
(taxes included)Prices include: 3 nights accommodation, 8 meals (3 breakfasts, 2 lunches, 3 dinners), and all sessions.
All of the accommodations have been recently re-modeled with new bathrooms and kitchenette areas. Most of the units have microwaves, fridges, stoves and even coffee makers so you can feel right at home. Rooms are made up with linens & towels. Pillows and blankets are provided.
Our retreat structure is set up with a cost for single or double occupancy and there is also reduced rates for teens and for children. Our program begins on Monday with arrival and check-in at 5:00pm with our first meal at 5:30 in the dining room, followed by our first session at 7:00 pm. Your registration includes 3 nights accommodation and 8 meals finishing with check-out after breakfast on Thursday morning. Since this is a retreat there is no variations available from the program that has been arranged. We sincerely hope that you will be able to come and participate in the entire program that has been planned and also to enjoy the beautiful facilities that are available at the lodge.
CHOOSING YOUR FACILITY
As mentioned, the accommodations are of various shapes and sizes from 2 bed motel suites to 3 bedroom apartments. If there is a group traveling that would like to stay together you can request an apartment with 3 or 4 separate bedrooms but a common sitting and coffee/snack area. All of your requests should be specified on the registration form and we will do our best to suit your needs. You should also let us know if you have any food allergies or require “main floor only” as many of the units have stairs. The chef that is preparing our meals can also accommodate a variety of restrictions, they just need to know in advance, when you are registering.
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