{"id":9282,"date":"2025-07-24T01:13:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T22:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/?p=9282"},"modified":"2025-07-24T16:47:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T13:47:04","slug":"faith-and-wellness-rom-staff-reconnect-during-the-spiritual-retreat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/?p=9282","title":{"rendered":"Faith and Wellness: ROM Staff reconnect during the Spiritual Retreat."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May, the ROM family came together at the Banda site for a deeply enriching Spiritual Retreat &#8211; a moment set aside to pause, reflect, and give thanks to God for His abundant blessings, grace, mercy, love, wisdom, protection, and guidance.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9503 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/spiritual-retreat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"814\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/spiritual-retreat.jpg 814w, https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/spiritual-retreat-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/spiritual-retreat-768x519.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 814px) 100vw, 814px\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"418\" data-end=\"636\">Anchored in the powerful theme, <em data-start=\"450\" data-end=\"506\">\u201cWhen you pass through the waters, I will be with you\u201d<\/em> (Isaiah 43:2), the day offered staff a sacred space to reconnect with their faith and the deeper meaning behind their daily work.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"638\" data-end=\"979\">Led by Executive Director <strong data-start=\"664\" data-end=\"685\">Josephine Kaleebi<\/strong> and Human Resources Manager <strong data-start=\"714\" data-end=\"734\">Christine Onuoha<\/strong>, the retreat featured soul-stirring praise and worship, heartfelt reflection and spiritual encouragement.<\/p>\n<p>Together, staff reflected on both personal and collective journeys, renewing their sense of purpose and unity as part of the ROM mission- to curb the further spread of HIV among the less privileged members of the community it serves and enable those already living with HIV\/AIDS to live a responsible and dignified life.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"981\" data-end=\"1114\">We invite you to witness moments from this uplifting day, where the presence of the Holy Spirit was felt through the photos below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In May, the ROM family came together at the Banda site for a deeply enriching Spiritual Retreat &#8211; a moment set aside to pause, reflect, and give thanks to God for His abundant blessings, grace, mercy, love, wisdom, protection, and guidance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[112],"class_list":["post-9282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsletter-issues","tag-newsletter-april-june-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9282"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9607,"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9282\/revisions\/9607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}