Directions to St. Mary of the Pines, Chatawa:

From I-55, take exit 4, go east 1 mile to US 51.

Turn right, go 0.2 mile. Turn left onto St. Mary Drive

and follow the signs.

Phone number at Retreat Center: 601-783-3494

Retreat Schedule:

Friday, January 25, 2008

3:00 - 5:00 Check In

5:30 Dinner

7:00 Welcome

7:30 - 9:00 Retreat

Saturday, January 26, 2008

7:30 Breakfast

8:30 Retreat

11:30 Lunch

BRING YOUR BIBLE, A NOTEBOOK AND PEN.

Dee Koza is a certified Presbyterian Church USA Educator with experience in local, presbytery, and national level educational positions. A national keynote/consultant, Dee continues to concentrate on faith development, vision/mission planning, narrative in worship, and youth ministry.

Her latest published works are Faithful Living in a Time of Violence and Peace Knows No Season.

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"Called at Sixteen, a Lifetime of Service"

Thumbing through the 1971 Huntingdon College yearbook, the name Dee Koza appears over and over again. Senior Favorite, SGA Senator, President of the Christian Council, Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities, you name it, she was involved. At the height of the Vietnam War, Dee Koza was named Homecoming Queen. "The year I served as Homecoming Queen was to my knowledge the only year in which there was a small luncheon in the Dining Room in lieu of the events on the Green. We all wore street dresses and I made a short speech relating the desire of the court to not have a large coronation during a time where our country was at war-both in Vietnam and torn apart at home as well."

A child of a navy pilot, Dee lived throughout the United States until her father's retirement in Dothan, Alabama. Dee first felt called into educational ministry at the age of sixteen. She received her B.S. from Huntingdon in Religion/Christian Education in 1971. She went on to earn her Master's Degree in Religious Education from Union Seminary/Presbyterian School of Christian Education in Richmond Virginia in 1976.

Dee has served eight local Presbyterian churches in her career, and recently retired as Director of Educational Ministries of Evergreen Presbyterian Church in Dothan, Alabama. She is particularly proud of her published works, including To Move in Faith; People of Promise; Circle of Wholeness; Monday Connection, a Harper/Row Study Guide; PYC Program Guides, Sr. Highs; and numerous articles in Counseling and Educational periodicals. Her latest works have just been completed for the denomination. They are: a study guide for the Resolution on Violence Faith, and Terrorism (PCUSA); Peace Knows No Season - In Celebration of 25th Anniversary of Peacemaking: A Believers Calling.

Dee is well known as a national keynote speaker in the areas of Faith Development, The Use of Narrative in Worship, Officer Training, Church Development, and Youth Ministry. She has conducted over 100 workshops, retreats, and events during her career, and continues to serve as a Long Distance Professor for Defiance College in Ohio.

Presbyterian Women

Presbytery of Mississippi

13^th Annual Winter Retreat

January 25-26, 2008

St. Mary of the Pines - Chatawa, Mississippi

“Finding God....Finding Home”

Retreat Leader:

Dee Koza

Certified Christian Educator

Decatur, Alabama