Winter Retreat – Student Statesmanship Institute

RENEW: WINTER RETREAT

At Renew, you will be immersed in God’s Word, fellowship, and conversation as we seek to learn and grow together. Single or married, in college or in a career, there is a place for you at Renew!

Registration for Renew ’27 will open on September 1st, 2026!

Details and Information

Details: When, Where, Costs

When: Friday, January 22 thru Sunday, January 24, 2027
Check-in is from 7:00pm-7:30pm on Friday. Programming starts at 7:45pm on Friday and runs through 12:00pm (noon) on Sunday.

Where: Michindoh Conference Center (4545 E Bacon Rd, Hillsdale, MI 49242).

Who: Anyone 18 and older.

Cost: $135.00 ea. for cabin registration. $180.00 ea. for hotel registration (double occupancy). $245.00 single occupancy hotel registration. $75 for day rate (no overnight accommodations).

Cabin Registrations are in a shared cabin that accommodate 10-12 people.
Hotel Registrations: If you wish to share a hotel room with a specific person, be sure to include that person in the roommate request field on your registration. If you wish to room by yourself, you must pay for the Single Hotel Registration.
There are a limited number of Michindoh hotel rooms available on a first come, first served basis.

Registration for Renew ’27 will open September 1st, 2026! Registration closes at midnight on Sunday, January 10th, 2027.

More Information & Theme

Renew is a three-day retreat where you are immersed in God’s Word through interactive teaching sessions, worship, and engaging small group discussions. This retreat is for adults of any age and is a great way to build fellowship and community among believers. Single or married, in college or in a career, there is a place for you at Renew! There is time to relax and lots of activities! Hiking, basketball, volleyball, 9-square, octa ball, broomball, sledding, tubing, board games, euchre tournament, and more!

Meet Our Speakers: Pastor Sam Fink

Pastor of Heart of the Shepherd Lutheran Church

Pastor Fink serves Heart of the Shepherd Lutheran Church in Howell, MI, and he lives close by with his wife Kelsey, and their six kids. His favorite part about being a pastor is that when he invites himself over to people’s houses they feel obligated to say yes. He is a graduate of Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, and Lee University in Cleveland, TN.

Meet Our Speakers: Pastor Anthony Weber

Pastor and Teacher – Northwestern Michigan College

In addition to being a pastor for the past 17 years, Anthony Weber was an English, Logic, and Comparative Worldviews teacher at Traverse City Christian school from 1997 until 2017. He currently teaches a Contemporary Ethical Dilemmas class at Northwestern Michigan College along with his pastoral work.

A lot of Anthony’s life revolves around seeking to engage a wide variety of people in conversation that is bold, honest, and true when it comes to issues of life: God, morality, politics, the church, etc. Anthony blogs on worldview and church issues at empiresandmangers.blogspot.com; he podcasts with two other friends at Breaking the Surface (on Spotify, Pocket Casts, Radio Public, and Google Podcasts)

Hobbies: napping, drinking coffee, writing, reading, and ineffectively trying to avoid arguments on Facebook.

Anthony married up, as everyone in his life will attest. He and wife, Sheila, have been married 31 years and have three adult children.