EL#6 Leader Cohort

St. Francis Springs

Every Eden Lead Cohort is a particular community, in a particular place, for a particular season.

This cohort offers a spacious, prayerful environment for leaders to be deeply formed in love—through shared retreats, intentional practices, and attentive presence to God, self, and others.

When

Your Eden Lead Cohort #6 journey begins in July with an online gathering and introduction of your Pre-work, preparing you for three in-person retreat experiences.

Online Gathering & Pre-work | July 20, 2026

Knowledge of God | September 15-18, 2026

Knowledge of Self | January 11-14, 2027

Pace and Practice | April 19-22, 2027


For all of our retreats, plan to arrive on the first day for registration and a welcome reception by 3:00pm. The first session will begin promptly at 4:00pm.  Plan to stay until our hard stop at 12:30pm on the final day of our retreat. 

Your cohort journey will begin two months before the first retreat through our curated pre-work. We encourage you to set aside two hours per week to engage deeply with God through your pre-work. 

Where

St. Francis Springs Prayer Center is located in beautiful Stoneville, NC. 
The address is: 477 Grogan Rd., Stoneville, NC 27048

The closest, major airport is Piedmont Triad International Airport (GSO) in Greensboro, NC. 

Investment

The Eden Lead Year is a generous investment in your relationship with God. 

  • $25 non-refundable application fee
  • $5,000 per person for Double Occupancy
  • $6,500 per person for Single Occupancy

Need help raising the funds for this investment into your leadership? Check out our Fundraising Resources here.

We offer 3 different types of payment options.

  • Pay in four, consecutive monthly installments
  • Pay in eight, consecutive monthly installments
  • Pay in full

If you are willing to share a room but don’t have a roommate, we can pair you with someone else at the Double Occupancy rate. Your place in the cohort is secured when your first payment is received.

Your investment for the Eden Lead Year includes:

  • Lodging for all retreats
  • Meals and daily refreshments for all retreats
  • Curated pre-work for all retreats
  • Retreat booklets grounded in scripture
  • Guided practice

Applications open on April 1, 2026. Click here to be notified when applications open. Simply wanting to Learn More? Register for a Discovery Call by clicking the blue button below.

"There is nothing like it. I have been to many conferences over my 40+ years in pastoral ministry, but nothing quite like the Eden Lead Cohort. I found it to be refreshing and spiritually invigorating, a great balance between insightful content and planned times of solitude and silence. If you’re looking to deepen your relationship with God and others, make one of the upcoming Cohorts a priority. I promise, you won’t regret it."

Charlie Boyd, DMin, Teaching Pastor, Fellowship Greenville, SC

Your Retreat Facilitators:

Chuck Gschwend

Chuck Gschwend
Co-Founder and Director of Eden Lead

A trial attorney, pastor, and trained Spiritual Director, Chuck is a seasoned retreat leader and is passionate about helping leaders experience the deeper waters of the Father’s love, so that Jesus’ church can be famous for love. Chuck is now an empty-nester living in Weatherford, TX with his wife Lindy. They have three adult children.

Chuck has earned his JD, University of Arkansas School of Law; MABS Dallas Theological Seminary; Certificate in Spiritual Direction, LTI’s Selah program, affiliated with Gordon-Conwell Seminary; and trained in Spiritual Formation under Ruth Haley Barton at the Transforming Center.

Jenn Jett Barrett
Eden Retreat Facilitator

An apprentice of Jesus, a teacher and a spiritual mentor, Jenn spends her days restoring God’s original intent for men and women to live loved and unleashed as they co-labor together to bring the Kingdom near. Her burden is in response to growing up in a faith tradition where knowledge of God’s word was more valued than being transformed by God’s word. Living loved by the author of the transforming Word and with the power of the Spirit, has radically changed her life. 

 

She is the founder of The Well Summit which exists to cultivate discipleship experiences that guide fellow saints as they journey towards living in union with Jesus, unity with one another and living unleashed to bring the Kingdom near. She also serves on the teaching team at Samaritan Church Springdale.

 

Jenn lives a simple and full life in Northwest Arkansas with her amazing husband, Rhett.

 

Adam Breckenridge
Eden Retreat Facilitator

Adam has served in pastoral ministry for over 20 years, providing leadership to the teaching, shepherding and spiritual formation ministries of the church. 

 

Adam has earned his BA in Christian Ministries from Williams Baptist University and MDiv from Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is a Tin Man Coach with Tim Man Ministries, a graduate of Crosspoint Ministries’ Soul Care Institute, a Certified Enneagram Coach through Your Enneagram Coach, and Co-Founder and Coach at Breckenridge Coaching, and an Elder on staff at City Church in Conway, AR.

 

He and his wife Kari live in Conway, AR with their three daughters: Lucy, Susanna and Georgie. 

 

 

The Eden Lead Year is a safe place to lay aside your responsibilities at home and work to simply be souls before God. The reality for all of us is that even when we are in a healthy season, we long for more, relationally.

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