Sab⋅bat⋅i⋅cal: Any Extended Period of Leave from One's Customary Work
My Sabbatical Parameters
My sabbatical was seven weeks in length beginning the last week of September 2007. I spent my first week in Louisville taking an Alban Institute class entitled “Balancing Your Ministry, Renewing Your Life.” The next four weeks were spent in a borrowed RV trailer parked in a secluded place where I could read, pray, and write without interruption. My wife joined me on the weekends, and I traveled to Olivet Nazarene University for their 2 day Fall Holiness Lectures. Otherwise I celebrated silence and solitude. During week six I traveled to Tuscaloosa, Alabama to visit my son and his wife at the University of Alabama and then proceeded to a rented cabin in the Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee where I finished my time with hikes, reading, and reflection.
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Chuck Hayes and his wife Kathy live in Richland Center, Wisconsin where Chuck is the pastor of the Church of the Nazarene. He graduated from MidAmerica Nazarene University and from Nazarene Theological Seminary. He serves as a member of the Board of Trustees for Olivet Nazarene University. Chuck is an avid reader and particularly enjoys Civil War History. In his spare time Chuck can be seen riding his motorcycle through the twisty back roads of Wisconsin.