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ACST Retreat

Location: Zoom video conferencing

Annual Conference Shepherding Team Leadership Retreat

Saturday, August 22, 2020

9 am to 12 noon

This retreat will bring together the leadership of the conference to engage around the ACST Strategic Goals established at AC 2019.  Attendees will hear reports from the Conference Task Forces in order to align their work with task force goals and carry the intitiatives into the local church setting. 

An invitation with registration link will be sent out in late July.

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