Children's & Family Pastor Mini Retreat with Rev. Kara Root

As part of Youthfront's Christian Parenting and Caregiving grant from Lilly Endowment Inc., we're excited to offer several opportunities for Children's and Family Pastors to connect. Our initiative, Presence-Centered Parenting and Caregiving, offers ways to deepen connections with other pastors and receive resources we hope will be helpful. Join us for our next workshop:

Join fellow ministry leaders for a refreshing mini retreat with author and pastor Kara Root. Through gentle teaching, conversation, and guided practices, Kara will invite us to release the weight of constant striving and rediscover the freedom of leading from God’s presence. This is a space to pause, rest, and be renewed together in community.

Rest & Renewal

A mini-retreat with Rev. Kara Root

Where: Youthfront HQ, 4600 Rainbow Blvd, Kansas City, KS
When: Wednesday, January 28, 2026 | 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Lunch provided

What To Expect:

Rest and refuel in this mini-retreat for children’s and family pastors
Connect with other children’s and family pastors in our network as you discuss ideas and challenges unique to your field of ministry.
Join in prayer practices and multi-sensory experiences to help orient yourself toward receiving life’s ordinary, holy moments as a gift.
Leave with a refreshed sense of belonging to God and others.

Rev. Kara K. Root is the author of the Deepest Belonging: A Story of Discovering How God Meets Us (2021) and the forthcoming Receiving This Life: Practicing the Deepest Belonging (2023). Pastor of Lake Nokomis Presbyterian Church in Minneapolis, MN, a Christian community that shapes its life around worship, hospitality and Sabbath rest, she is a trained Spiritual Director and Certified Educator in the PCUSA. Being mom to two intriguing teenagers (and a sweet dog), and wife and proofreader to a wily theologian, spices up her vocational calling and keeps her fully immersed in life.

She has written for Sparkhouse, Working Preacher, Christian Century, Christianity Today, Faith and Leadership, Patheos and more. Kara leads retreats and workshops on sabbath rest, prayer practices, and church leadership and transformation.

Kara and her husband, Andy, lead workshops and speak together through Root Creative.

Rest & Renewal

A mini-retreat with Rev. Kara Root

Where: Youthfront HQ, 4600 Rainbow Blvd, Kansas City, KSWhen: Wednesday, January 28, 2026 | 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Lunch provided

What To Expect:

Rest and refuel in this mini-retreat for children’s and family pastors

Connect with other children’s and family pastors in our network as you discuss ideas and challenges unique to your field of ministry.

Join in prayer practices and multi-sensory experiences to help orient yourself toward receiving life’s ordinary, holy moments as a gift.

Leave with a refreshed sense of belonging to God and others.

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Where: Youthfront HQ, 4600 Rainbow Blvd, Kansas City, KS
When: Wednesday, January 28, 2026 | 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Lunch provided