Category: Retreats

exploring the hardest problems in creation

Full House Enjoys Creation Retreat

Last weekend, a big house full of students and scholars gathered in the Smoky Mountains for another Creation Retreat, this time themed around “weird fossils.”  Our guest, Matt McLain from the Master’s University led us in a deep dive into something called non-mammalian synapsids. What are non-mammalian synapsids?  They’re not exactly reptiles, and they’re not…
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March 3, 2025 0

Reviewing 2024: Creation Retreats

Welcome to our year in review!  In this series of brief articles, we’re covering our major ministry activities for 2024, starting with our TWO creation retreats! Our spring creation retreat sold out again this year as we welcomed Jackson Gravitt, Bryan College instructor of Christian Studies.  Jackson led us on a fascinating exploration of the…
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December 3, 2024 0

Join Us For the 2022 Smoky Mountain Retreat!

March 4-6, 2022, Pigeon Forge, TN Join us for our seventh annual Smoky Mountain Retreat! Our creation retreats allow students and scholars to wrestle with the hardest questions in a safe and supportive space. In the quiet seclusion of the Smokies, we will think carefully about the believer’s lifelong quest to understand God and His creation.…
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January 10, 2022 0

God’s Guidance in 2021

  Here at Core Academy, we look back on 2021 with gratitude for God’s provision through yet another challenging year.  The COVID outbreak and subsequent restrictions hindered our former outreach activities, but these pressures also pushed us to new avenues of ministry and significant new achievements.  Our mission is to nurture the next generation of…
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November 16, 2021 0