HOTEL RESERVATIONS
Sun, Apr 27 – Tue, Apr 29, 2025 (2 nights)
Special Rate: $99 +taxes/fees per night
Special Rate available until March 28, 2025 or until all guestrooms in the block are booked.
Your stay with Hampton by Hilton includes
- ✓ Free hot breakfast
- ✓ Free WiFi
- ✓ Non-smoking rooms
- ✓ Outdoor pool
- ✓ Fitness center
- ✓ Pet-friendly rooms
Limited Hotel Scholarships Available
Scholarship Option on Reservation Form
Special Event for Pastor's Retreat!
COST: $48.00 [] 15 Participants Max
In this exciting workshop, you will receive an 8x10 weathered white frame and a glossy picture of either a Sea Turtle, Starfish or Sunflower to place behind your frame's glass. Then, dive into our selection of mosaic glass, crushed mirror, beads, and more to create stunning textures that transform your picture into a masterpiece. Finally, encase your creation in resin for a truly stellar look. A perfect addition to your home décor.
Please choose your desired picture prior to check out.
Don't miss out on this creative and fun opportunity! Sign up today to secure your spot and create something truly unique.
Please note: If you must cancel your reservation, please do so 48 hours prior to event.
Schedule (subject to change)
Sunday, April 27
3:00pm and later - check into hotel
Note: All events are in Friendship Hall, Daytona Beach Drive-In Church unless otherwise noted.
6:00pm - Dinner
7:30pm - Gathering and Getting to Know You
8:00pm - Keynote #1 - Dr. Frank Thomas
Evening Vespers
Monday, April 28
Breakfast at hotel
10:00am - Gathering
10:30am - Morning Devotions
Keynote #2 - Dr. Frank Thomas
12:00pm - Lunch
Afternoon free time
Possible activities:
Nature Walk - Brad Beyer
1:30pm - Art Experience - separate registration and fee. Maximum 15 people
4:00pm - Optional conversation groups
Hispanic Pastors - Selena Reyes
Others?
6:00pm - Banquet
7:30pm - Worship, Dr. Frank Thomas preaching
Tuesday, April 29
Breakfast at hotel
Check out of hotel
11:00am - Conversation with Dr. Frank Thomas
Closing Worship
12:00pm - Lunch (Grab and go for the road, or stay and enjoy some more fellowship)
FRANK A. THOMAS, PHD, currently serves as the Director of the Compelling Preaching Initiative and the Nettie Sweeney and Hugh Th. Miller Professor of Homiletics at Christian Theological Seminary, Indianapolis, Indiana. The Compelling Preaching Initiative is an outgrowth of the PhD Program in African American Preaching and Sacred Rhetoric founded by Thomas. According to Thomas, the mission of both these programs is “to teach and develop the beauty, the depth, the genius, the history, and the power of African-American preaching in order to ignite a preaching renaissance to revive American Christianity in the twenty-first century.”
Thomas has spent a lifetime practicing, studying, teaching, and writing about preaching. His first book, They Like to Never Quit Praisin’ God: The Role of Celebration In Preaching was first published in 1997 and then revised, updated, and released in August 2013. To complement this classic preaching book, Thomas published, in 2014, Preaching as Celebration Digital Lecture Series and Workbook. He is also a nationally and internationally sought-after keynote speaker, preacher, and lecturer.
Thomas and his wife Joyce Scott Thomas have two adult children, Anthony William and Rachel Dickerson (Milton) and one granddaughter, August Elise Dickerson.