Summer 2009 ROP at Sandstone, Minnesota
With less than a year before our 2009 Rites of Passage in Sandstone, Minnesota, this is an invitation to
all initiated men to do use this site to exchange ideas on recruiting men for next summer's ROP.
We need your ideas and your energy to make sure we have a good turn out for this event.
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Comments
This is my first time going to this site in more than a year. I was hoping to find many inspirational messages to encourage me on. I am currently a work intern at the CAC and probably learning more than I am contributing. My wife, Carol, and I will be spending nearly 6 months at this work and spiritual formation.
I am interested in attending the Minnesota ROP as an initiated man this summer. I trust that the "Web guy" will make sure that I receive an invitation.
All initiated men: If you feel like you have not been transformed since your ROP, keep the faith, forgive yourself and keep looking.
Take care.
Posted by: Gene Hoelscher | January 16, 2009 10:19 PM
I'd like to thank the team and all of my brothers who went through these recent rites of passage in Sandstone. What a beautiful site for these powerful rites!
The closing story about cutting wood and holding onto our gold could not be more appropriate for me as the experience keeps percolating in my mind, heart, and soul. It is becoming so evident that I have a lot of wood still to chop. But as my grandmother used to say, "He who chops his own wood is twice warmed." At the same time I know that I need other initiated men in my life to challenge and encourage me along the way. Talking and listening to Tom, John, Dave, and Harry at the July bonfire confirmed that we have many questions yet to struggle with and many stories and insights yet to share with one another, and with those who will be coming after us.
Posted by: Kent Claussen Gubrud | July 22, 2009 07:51 PM