What does it mean to find and follow a personal calling? How do we distinguish between an authentic calling and the competing, counterfeit voices in our culture? How can we balance the inward listening to our hearts and listening with our hearts to the needs of our world? This retreat offers young adults (ages 18 to 35) time and space to reflect on these vocational questions in an environment of prayer, quiet, and beauty, and in fellowship with other young adults.

When: Saturday through Sunday, May 30 - 31; begins Saturday, check-in 3:30 PM, first session at 4 PM and ends Sunday at 3 PM.

Cost: $25 per person overnight or commuter, meals included.

Where: Stella Maris Retreat Center. 981 Ocean Avenue, Elberon, NJ 07740 (near Long Branch) 732 229-0216.

Register by Friday, May 15. Space for overnight attendees limited to 20. Check payable to the Diocese of New Jersey must be received by this date.

Registration: Email preferred to spaige@newjersey.anglican.org. Or fax registration form to 609 394-9546, mail form, or phone Sarah Paige, 609 394-5281, ext. 10.

Contact: The Reverend Gregory Bezilla, 732-932-1278 or at bezilla@rci.rutgers.edu

Retreat Leaders:

The Reverend Gregory Bezilla is Chaplain of the Episcopal Campus Ministry at Rutgers, based at Canterbury House in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He has served as a parish priest and a hospital chaplain. He is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University, and Emory University.

The Reverend Joanne Epply-Schmidt has been a priest in the Diocese of New Jersey for almost 20 years. After a dozen years of parish work emphasizing children and youth ministries, she joined the staff of Storytelling Arts, Inc. of Princeton, a secular non-profit, as a professional storyteller and teaching artist working with at-risk and incarcerated youth in Mercer County. As a adjunct Professor at Palmer Theological Seminary in Philadelphia she has mentored preaching practicums, and taught the art of storytelling to seminary students. As a frequent supply preacher she has served in many churches throughout the siocese, and proudly bears the distinction of being an official "Hip-Hop Priest", having been active in the Hip-Hop Eucharist ministry of this diocese. She an affiliated priest at Trinity Church in Princeton, is a board member of the Procter Foundation, and The Bridge Academy of New Jersey.