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to COS Home page Dayspring, some 200 acres, was purchased early in The Church of the Saviour's life (1953) as a place of retreat, renewal and re-creation. Today, for those who worship, work, and play at Dayspring, hospitality is a central therm as we provide welconie for the sister churches, our neighbors, the stranger, the sojourner, the refugee.
Relatedness to the land colors our life together--our liturgy set by the seasons, our understanding of justice by the need to share the resources of the earth, our bonds to each other strengthened by work to care for the gift of land entrusted to us.
To be a people of God rooted in the land of Dayspring, nurtured by its silence, taught by its richness and fragile vulnerability, gratefully committed to its care in covenant with our Creator God. We are called to be a people of God, seeking to let God's Spirit transform us into a loving community so that we might be bold to be a people of compassion, peace and justice, offering hospitality, healing and hope to neighbors, searching exiles, and wounded ones.
- seeks to discover the wisdom that God speaks to us through the creation around us, to learn what it means to be in relationship with the community of all life, and to hold up the vision of a new creation and a healed relationship between people and the earth. (With New Conununity)
Contact Betsy Ashburn - 301/540-4105 (h)
- current mission group began 1982) - seeks to lift up prayer as central to the life of the Christian and to the life of Christ's body; to live as witnesses to our belief in the contemplative life; and to offer hospitality for Christ's sake by creating and maintaining a place of silence and solitude for all people. (With Potter's House Church and Covenant Community)
Contact Joe Knowles - 202/537-1895 (h)
The Retreat Center accomrmdates 1 to 18 persons overnight in single bedroorm. IndividuaLs and groups who want to be in silence are welcome. Closed mid-December through January.
Contact Carol WUkinson - 301/428-9348
seeks to address the issues of how we sow our fields, bake our bread, and spend our money. Our understanding of creation, of how we work, farm this land, and relate to one another is a spiritual issue. We believe that our understanding of creation must inform our understanding of economics, not vice versa. We believe that God intends for the land to be our partner, and for us to live cooperatively, respectfully, and lovingly in covenant relationship. By forming an agricultural community at Dayspring we hope to bring together farmers and consumers on a local scale to support a bioregional agriculture, to model an economic system based on need, rather than greed, to welcome the stranger and those in need of meaningful work, food, shelter, and healing, to provide a workplace which has a contemplative spirit, and a commitment to honoring scripture and the wisdom of the land, and to include those from different backgrounds and cultures.
Contact Mike McClanen - 301/972-6503 (h)
is called to encourage and empower Dayspring, as a place and a people, to become more and more a Matrix for 1) the healing of the wounds of childhood and adolescence for adults, 2) the nurture of creativity, gifts and call for people who are a part of this church community as well as those who might come to us from other places, and 3) the healthy development of our children.
Contact Barbara or Gale Quist - 301/540-0998 (h)
Bill Price - 301/972-4041 (h)
Marilyn Saunders - 301/469-6782 (h)
- seeks to nurture, challenge and offer hope to the church. We offer 3 to 6 day events for those who long for transfor"ng life in Christian community which leads to spiritual growth and empowered ministry. We share a vision of church and provide opportunity for folks to experience and share with each other the nieaning of silence and spiritual disciplines, the centrality of call and mission, the need for faithful structures, and the joys and difficulties of community life. (With New Community and Eighth Day)
Contact Carol Fitch - 301/428-3373 (w), 301/530-0394 (h)
A conference center is available on the Dayspring land near Gerniantown, MD for groups of 10 to 50. 11411 Neelsville Church Rd., Germntown, MD 20874 301/428-3373.
Sunday mornings in the Farmhouse -
during summer months in the Pavilion.
9:45 a.m. silence, 10:00 a.m. worship.
Provides an introduction to the life of the church coninunity preceded by dinner Thursday evenings at 6:30 p.m. at the Farmhouse. CaR the church office to join us for dinner any Thursday during the School session.
Andrea Burgard 301/428-0567 (w), 301/353-0720 (h)
Gloria McClanen 301/972-9683 (h)
Betty Price 301/972-4041 (h)
Marilyn Saunders 301/469-6782 (h)
Stewards
Betsy Ashburn 301/540-4105 (h)
Frank Cresswell 202/363-0129 (h)
Alice Fenn 301/972-3768 (h)
Dorothy Nelligan 301/253-3730 (h)
Bill Price 301/972-4041 (h)
Gale Quist 301/540-0998 (h)
Council Moderator: Jean Mathews 301/916-2378 (h)
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