Russell Price is one of Faithwalking’s most recent graduates. Here’s what he said about his experience.
The combination of the material, the personal reflection time, and small group encouragement and prayer offered in the Faith Walking retreat made it a life changing experience for me.
Russell is the Marketing Solutions Systems Manager for Texas Instruments and an active member of Sugar Creek Baptist Church. He and his wife, Stephanie, are parents to a nine-year-old son and a seven-year-old daughter. He is one in a long list of folks who have described Faithwalking as a life changing experience.
What is it about Faithwalking that makes it life changing? Here are some answers given by other Faithwalkers:
There’s a safe place to talk about the areas of my life that are not working, areas where I’ve become resigned and cynical about things ever changing;
The leaders are authentic about their wounding and the journey to obedience that they are on;
There’s a lot of solitude time where I went deep with God; I had deep encounters with Him;
Though the retreat is powerful, there is a follow up process that holds me accountable for putting in practice the things I learned;
I got breakthrough tools that impacted my marriage and family in ways that nothing else has;
It’s not about me being a better person; it’s about me having more tangible impact for God’s Kingdom in my home, neighborhood and workplace;
Mission is described as a team sport; that was both threatening and empowering for me.
Here’s the rest of Russell’s testimony.
I learned that Christian relationships are for more than just accountability around sin management but are the basis for sharing a common mission. The Lord also used Faith Walking to reveal personal emotional wounds that were holding me back from being radically obedient to Christ. Now I understand myself better and how to be a disciple of Jesus who is on mission in the world.
