Canaan Fellowship

Fall 2025 Retreat

Canaan Fellowship Fall Retreat 2025, held September 5-7 at Hume Camp in Monterey, MA, themed “Loving God and Neighbor.”

  • The Lord’s Delight: We Are the Fruit of His Labor

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    Bruce Hempel shares two personal testimonies centered on understanding and experiencing God’s love. He reflects on how God’s love is not based on our performance but on our identity as His children, and how we, in turn, bring delight to God as the fruit of His labor and as His bride. [00:00:25] The first half…

  • Pray Without Ceasing, Rejoice Evermore

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    Brother Joseph shares a personal exhortation focused on spiritual revival, prayer, and joyful expectation of Christ’s return. He encourages believers to cultivate a life of constant prayer and rejoicing, which empowers love and good works. The message is a heartfelt testimony and call to live with a heavenly mindset. [00:01:57] Exhort one another daily as…

  • Local Missions: Living as a Christian with a Missional Mindset

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    Andrew leads a session on living as a Christian with a missional mindset, moving beyond the initial topic of “local missions” to encompass the idea that a believer’s entire life is a mission. He explores the twofold purpose of the Great Commission—to preach the gospel and to make disciples—and how this applies to both necessary…

  • Overcoming Bitterness: A Study of Naomi and Ruth

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    Bill Teubl reflects on the book of Ruth, drawing lessons on loving God and loving others. He contrasts the bitterness of Naomi with the faithful love of Ruth, using their story to illustrate how bitterness inhibits our ability to perceive and receive God’s love. The sermon culminates in the redemption provided by Boaz, a picture…

  • Do You Love Me? Feed My Sheep

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    Bruce Hempel preaches on the inseparable connection between loving God and loving others, using Jesus’s restoration of Peter as the central example. He challenges the common American ideal of a comfortable, self-focused life, arguing that true joy and meaning are found in sacrificially loving and serving others. The call is to look beyond our own…

  • Hospitality, the Power of Philoxenia: A Middle Eastern Perspective

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    This talk by Ibrahim and Grace explores the biblical concept of hospitality as a practical expression of loving one’s neighbor, drawing from a Middle Eastern cultural perspective. He defines hospitality through key scriptures, illustrates it with Old Testament stories, and provides three theological reasons for its practice, concluding with personal testimonies of how opening their…

  • God’s Love Perfected in Us

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    Joseph Arthungal shares a message centered on the transformative power of God’s love, which is the core of the Christian life and the key to unity within the family of God. He emphasizes that understanding and living out this divine love allows believers to reflect God’s nature, overcome discord, and experience a foretaste of heaven…

  • Loving God and Loving Others: the Outworking of the Holy Spirit

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    Naveen opens by confessing his personal struggle to love others, especially his immediate family, as an outflow of truly loving God. He emphasizes that loving God and others is not a human effort but the outworking of the Holy Spirit within believers. The core message is a call to be confident in God’s love for…

  • Your God My God: A Journey from Bitterness to Blessing

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    Bill Teubl introduces the Book of Ruth as a story to illustrate concepts of being loved by God, loving God, and loving one’s neighbor. The sermon focuses primarily on the first two chapters, drawing lessons from the characters’ experiences with loss, bitterness, and finding favor. Bill emphasizes that God’s love is demonstrated even in seasons…