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Christian Formation and Direction Ministries

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

EST 1988

Christian Formation & Direction Ministries [CFDM] is a non-profit, Christian ministry incorporated in California in 1996.  Its mission is to “lead others into a deeper love for and intimacy with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit through spiritual formation and the art of spiritual direction…particularly through the training, re-sourcing, networking, and supervising of spiritual directors for Christian churches and ministries in the western United States.”  

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Upcoming Events

  • Spring Get-Together: Los Angeles
    Sat, Mar 25
    Los Angeles: Address TBA
    CFDM grads! Join us for a regional gathering this spring. Multiple Dates & Locations: March 4: San Diego, March 25: Los Angeles, April 22: Orange County, & April 1: on Zoom
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  • Spring Get-Together: Zoom
    Sat, Apr 01
    Zoom Event
    CFDM grads! Join us for a regional gathering this spring. Multiple Dates & Locations: March 4: San Diego, March 25: Los Angeles, April 22: Orange County, & April 1: on Zoom
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  • Holy Week: An Afternoon at the Getty
    Thu, Apr 06
    Getty Museum
    Join us at the Getty Museum as spiritual director and art docent Kim Allen-Niesen guides us to a newer acquisition at the Getty Museum," Christ Crowned with Thorns," painted by Gerrit van Honthorst in about 1620.
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  • April Book Club
    Mon, Apr 17
    Zoom Event
    National Poetry Month invites us to consider four poets- Jane Kenyon, Denise Levertov, Stanley Kunitz, and Wendell Berry. Marilyn will send poems ahead to those who will be attending. We invite those of you who write poems to be brave and share them that evening.
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  • Spring Get-Together: Orange County
    Sat, Apr 22
    Orange County: Address TBA
    CFDM grads! Join us for a regional gathering this spring. Multiple Dates & Locations: March 4: San Diego, March 25: Los Angeles, April 22: Orange County, & April 1: on Zoom
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  • Advent Adventure
    Sat, Dec 02
    Little Church by the Sea
    Join us for a half day gathering where we will join as a community of CFDM and welcome new friends for a morning of enrichment, speaker, workshops.
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  • SAVE THE DATE: All Shall Be Well Conference
    Time is TBD
    Location is TBD
    Save the date for February 2024 for the return of our All Shall Be Well Conference! Details to follow later this year.
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