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Hospitality Click here for a podcast about our guiding value of hospitality by Kevin Rains.  Retreats Within our community we have people gifted in spiritual direction, counseling, and healing prayer. We also have great worship leaders, cooks, hosts and hostesses. Our facilities, which include a former convent and rectory, are peaceful, comfortable, and full of love. Part of our calling is to offer a space for solitude, silence and prayer, but we also love to host retreats on a variety of topics. We'd like to invite you to join us for a day, week or a weekend retreat. If you need quiet and solitude, it's yours to have. If what you're looking for is conversation and spiritual guidance, we offer that as well. The rooms are comfortable, clean, quiet, and beautifully simple. We're able to host groups or individuals. You can schedule time to meet with a spiritual director, have trained and caring people pray with you, and take advantage of therapeutic massage coupled with healing prayer. For groups we can schedule various discussion topics. • $40 per day (group rates may vary) • meals included (can eat with others or privately in room) • private room with bathroom down the hall • welcome to visit VC house churches or the Sunday weekly gathering • additional fees for spiritual direction, counseling, prayer ministry, & massage Photos of the convent can be seen here. Contact us by email or by phone at 513-253-3439.  The Speckled Bird Cafe The Bird, now open, is the neighborhood coffee shop, which you can walk to for a cup of coffee, a loaf of fresh bread, a panini sandwich, homemade sweets, or a warm hello from a friendly face. The café is an important part of the lives of neighbors from the surrounding West Norwood blocks, of Xavier college students, who live just ¾ of a mile away, and of creative types from all over Cincinnati who want something different and unique to call their own. The café is located in the commercial space just across the street from St. Elizabeth's church building. We've installed a 16 ft serving bar, a step up stage and seating area next to the front windows, new lighting and paint, and art-piece tables scattered around the room. The room is being transformed with two ideals in mind; the aesthetic and the functional. We've created a space that communicates value and dignity to each person who enters. The Speckled Bird will be a respite from the mass-market, cookie-cutter culture that inundates our daily lives. From the creation of each espresso, to the art on the walls, to the one of a kind furniture pieces, the café will be a place of beauty and contemplation. The Speckled Bird is an art gallery, a music venue, a bookstore, a restaurant and an espresso bar. Thanks to the generosity of Larry Bourgeois and Old Saint George Community Center, we're able to serve more than just warmed-up supermarket pastries. Larry has donated the commercial kitchen that was used at OSG along with several unique furniture pieces. Friends come to the Speckled Bird not just to get caffeinated, but to get fed. This gift has pushed the project further along than we could have dreamed. Not only have many of our logistical problems been solved by Larry's generosity, but our hearts have been greatly encouraged that our dream can, indeed, become reality. We have coordinated with Vineyard Central and created a piazza with umbrella tables and chairs scattered across the large sidewalk area that fronts the church. This collaboration leverages the beauty of the old cathedral with our service of food and quality drinks to create a unique experience, at least on this side of the Atlantic. This physical presence will speak life and welcome to the surrounding community. We're now open, realizing our dream of running a place that actively rebuilds community in our neighborhood and gives dignity to each person who enters through the door. Menu, Hours, and Contact info at the Speckled Bird Cafe official web site.    --------------------------------------------------- Jill and Jonathan Hicks, the proprietors and Vineyard Central house church leaders, have lived overseas in various countries and in various contexts. They enjoy making art, making good food, designing welcoming spaces and hope to be part of neighborhoods transformed into viable living communities. They seek to create a space that has international flavor, which borrows culturally from all those little neighborhoods from Morocco to Mumbai which they have enjoyed.
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