APR Autumn Retreat, 21 - 23 October 2025
The 2025 APR Autumn retreat will be held at St Columba’s House, Woking, from 21 – 23 October, and will be led by APR President, the Rt Revd John Stroyan. Bishop John has been President of the APR since 2017. He is an experienced retreat leader with a keen interest in the Eastern spiritual tradition, iconography and the arts.
St Columba’s House is a comfortable retreat house with beautiful gardens, set in a quiet location on the edge of Woking. All its bedrooms are en-suite, and accessible via a lift from the ground floor. Guests are encouraged to make use of the many outdoor sitting areas, as well as the chapel and oratory. The retreat will cost £350 per person (with discounts available for bookings made before 20 April), which will include all your meals.
Entitled ‘Behold, I am doing a new thing. Do you not perceive it?‘ (Is.43.19), Bishop John writes, “God is always inviting us into new life. God always has more for us to discover and experience of his love and purposes for our lives. Yesterday’s ‘manna’ is not fresh today. This retreat invites us to ask ourselves, ‘have we allowed ourselves to settle for less than what God desires for us?’ ”