List of Opportunities
First Thing First Friday - A Monthly Intentional Pause
On the first Friday of each month, we’ll take an intentional pause to notice God’s presence and welcome the day with open hearts. This series will be supported by Surrender to Love, The Gift of Being Yourself, and Desiring God’s Will by David Benner. Each month our time together will include guided prayer and meditation, using Brenner’s series as our backdrop.
Bring your favorite morning beverage and come as you are, gently stepping from the quiet of night into the welcoming arms of Jesus.
Join Dr. Roseanne Elling and the SFSTX Team for a time reflecting on “Desiring God’s Will”, the third book in David Benner’s trilogy.
“Choosing God begins with receptive openness and attentiveness to God. Although God occasionally crashes through our walls of indifference, normally if we are to discern divine presence we must be spiritually attentive.”
While our conversations will be shaped by the themes and insights of the book, you’re invited to join us whether or not you have read it. We believe all who gather will have a meaningful time of reflection, connection, and shared discovery.
Online Opportunity
Your Biggest Blind Spots - Online Event
Almost all of us hit an invisible ceiling in our personal growth journey. It keeps us from realizing our personal and professional potential, and we waste vast resources on gurus who are stuck at the same spot but pretending otherwise.
The ceiling is called spiritual bypassing.
It’s the inner “work” that stands in for the real inner journey. It’s expanded awareness that simply increases your capacity to stay in the same patterns. It’s focusing on what you change rather than how you change. It’s becoming “better” instead of becoming free.
Join the Spiritual Formation Society and Dr. Kelly at this online event as he helps us see our blind spots as spiritual bypasses and begin the inner journey to more freedom.
Get to Know Dr. Kelly Flanagan
This podcast is a relaxed and engaging conversation between Ted Wueste of the SFSAZ and Kelly about what it means to be formed in the image of Christ. The conversation in this series centered around one meaningful question:
“What’s your formation story?”
Get to know Kelly beyond his books and professional work as he reflects on the people, experiences, and moments that have shaped his faith, his life, and his ongoing journey with Christ.
Anxiety and Prayer - DFW Workshop Opportunity
Not all prayer practices are equally helpful when we are experiencing anxiety.
In this interactive, hands-on workshop, licensed clinical professional counselor and spiritual director Nader Sahyouni will help us explore how prayer can become a place of honest encounter with God—not only supporting us in moments of anxiety, but also helping us attend to deeper root causes and develop greater resilience for the future.
Drawing from insights in psychotherapy, spiritual formation, and brain science, Nader will guide us in discovering practical and prayerful ways to respond to anxiety with greater awareness and compassion while deepening our trust in God’s presence with us.
Date: Wednesday, November 18, 2026
Time: 6:30–8:30 p.m.
Location: Oaks Chapel – 8101 Justin Road, Double Oak, Texas
Cost: $45
Learn more about our presenter, Nader Sahyouni, here.
Light in the Longest Night - Online Gathering
Christmas is often described as a season of joy—but sometimes joy is not the whole story.
For many of us, this season also holds grief, change, loneliness, disappointment, uncertainty, or the ache of someone or something deeply missed. Sometimes we simply arrive at Christmas weary.
Light in the Longest Night will be a quiet, contemplative gathering where there is room for all of it.
Together, we will slow down and make space to be present to God and to what is true within us. Through Scripture, guided reflection, silence, prayer, and the lighting of candles, we will gently hold the losses, hurts, and longings we carry
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There will be no expectation to speak or share your story. You are welcome simply to come, listen, reflect, and receive.
And together, we will remember the quiet promise at the heart of Christmas: we do not have to manufacture hope for ourselves. The Light comes to meet us—even in the darkness.
Come as you are.
Bring what you carry.
There is room for you here.
This gathering will be held online via Zoom.
As part of our time together, we will light four candles, making space for grief, pain, longing, and hope. If you would like to join in this practice, we invite you to have four candles ready. Participation is entirely optional.
Survey for Spiritual Directors
Our desire is to come alongside you in ways that strengthen your ministry, deepen formation, and support your health, vocationally and personally. Your responses will help us prayerfully discern how we may serve you best.
Meet & Mingle for Spiritual Directors
SFSTX leadership warmly invites local Spiritual Directors to a relaxed gathering to connect with colleagues, strengthen our local community, and explore how SFSTX can better support your ministry. Join us for brief introductions, conversation and light refreshments — a welcoming space to share, listen, and build relationships.
A Creative Event for Spiritual Directors
