A Celebrating Life Ministries Holiday Dinner and Healing Event
“Joy Unspeakable”
December 12th | The Key Room, Novato, CA
December 13th | Unity of Marin, Novato, CA
Intention Colors: Red, White and Green
Friday: Holiday Dinner with Our CLM Community
We’re excited to bring back our annual Holiday Christmas Dinner, a beloved CLM tradition paused during the pandemic. This year, we’re joyfully reviving it with a Holiday Dinner Buffet at The Key Room in Novato, CA. Enjoy an evening of Christmas carols, inspiring talks, and the warmth of fellowship.
Saturday Healing Event
Come join us for a heartfelt Holiday Gathering as we celebrate the Spirit of Christmas and the love we share as a community.
Our guest speaker, Nicole Withrow, will be sharing a special message to uplift and inspire. Together, let’s rejoice in the Holiday Spirit and receive Christmas blessings to carry home to our families and friends.
A Bit More About the Holiday Dinner
The Key Room is home to The Fresh Starts Culinary Academy, a flagship job-training program that serves aspiring students in our community, including residents of Homeward Bound of Marin who are pursuing careers in the culinary field. The Academy has created countless life-changing opportunities for its Bay Area graduates, empowering individuals to build meaningful futures.
In the spirit of giving, CLM will donate all proceeds from this dinner to Homeward Bound of Marin, the primary provider of homeless shelters and resources for families and individuals in need throughout Marin County.
Join us as we celebrate the season, share a beautiful meal, and extend the love of our community to those who need it most.
We provide a space where miracles happen, where instant change is possible.
- Learn how to step into silence and soak in God’s presence
- Discover how to manifest miracles
- Find an atmosphere ripe for miraculous transformations
- Embrace unexpected healing and restorations
- Feel connected while in spirited worship
- Receive times of prayer and healing
- Enjoy building new relationships with the CLM community
What to expect at this In-Person Event:
Enjoy powerful presentations from Padre Paul Funfsinn, Rev. Robert Bearden, Rev. Dana Duryea, Rev. Renee Plendl and Nicole Withrow. Musicians Monk George Lopez, Rev. Ryan Rigoli, and Rev. Angelika Schafer will provide live worship music for this special In-Person Celebrating Heaven Event.
The days will be full of special talks and multiple healing experiences.
Come as you are…you are welcome here.
Friday Night Community Dinner
$125.00
Friday 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Saturday Healing Event
$150.00
Saturday 9:00 am – 5:00pm
Meet Our Presenters
Padre Paul Funfsinn
Nicole Withrow
Round Table
Rev. Renee Plendl
Rev. Dana Duryea
“Abundance in Everyday Life”
Rev. Robert Bearden
Meet Our Music Ministry
Feel the Celebrating Life Music Ministry vibe.
Tune into our Spotify playlist here.
Angelika Schafer
Angelika’s gift of music touches the heart; through her inspiring compositions, soothing voice and instruments she channels the frequencies and healing energies of the angelic realms and leads us gently into that deeper space within.
Ryan Rigoli
As a Percussionist and Pianist, Ryan assists the CLM musicians in creating a vibrational tone that supports a heartfelt devotion to the Divine. Ryan shares from the heart and offers Divinely inspired meditative piano improvisations that bring a healing energy of unconditional love and peace.
George Lopez
Music is a gift that offers us all an opportunity to tap into the totality of our God space, our true essence. It is one way of accessing a higher vibration and merging deeper into God. Playing and singing has always been a path of direct connection to Source for me in this lifetime.
Questions Answered
**Please read our COVID requirements for attendance.
**COVID Considerations.**
We have checked with the Marin County CDC about Covid activities and the level is LOW at this time. For this reason there will not be daily testing for Covid requested for attendees. We encourage anyone who desires to wear a mask to please do so at your discretion.
We appreciate your support, consideration, cooperation, and understanding, in helping to align with the purpose of coming together for a live event, with the goal to share and host The Presence in the highest love and respect for all. Thank you. By attending this Celebrating Life Event, your safety and the safety of others is important, and we will ask that you NOT ATTEND this retreat if you are experiencing any symptoms of fever, cold/flu, sore throat or cough.
You acknowledge Full Responsibility for your health choices, and in good faith, you will not hold CLM responsible by your attendance at this event.
CLM will make easily available hand sanitizer.
Where is the event located?
The Celebrating Heaven Retreat will be held in two locations in Novato, CA:
FRIDAY NIGHT DINNER
Key Room
1385 N Hamilton Pkwy, Novato, CA
You can find it on Google Maps here.
SATURDAY
Unity of Marin
600 Palm Dr, Novato, CA 94949
You can find it on Google Maps here.
Is this a fragrance free event?
Fragrance Free Environment
Upon your arrival please refrain from wearing frangrances of any kind out of respect for those who are allergic. Thank you.
Is CLM a non-profit? Is my registration tax-deductible?
We do accept donations, but your Registration Fee is not a Donation. It can be considered as a “Continuing Education Deduction” for tax purposes. Please keep the receipt for your Year-End records.
Celebrating Life Ministries is a 501 (c) 3 organization under the Internal Revenue Code. All donations to our organization are tax-deductible as we are classified as a public charity under section 509 (a) (2) of the Internal Revenue Code.
Read about our audio and photography policy here:
All Celebrating Life Ministries events may be recorded and or photographed. Your participation, in whole or part, may be included in an audio or video program or a media publication to be published by Celebrating Life/Isaac Books. Your completed registration grants permission to Celebrating Life Ministries and Paul Funfsinn to publish or use the recordings or your picture.
IMPORTANT: NO PROFESSIONAL cameras, video or recording equipment are allowed at events unless approved by Celebrating Life. Feel free to use your digital cameras, smartphones and tablets to post to your Facebook, But NO videos will be allowed to be posted on any media boards/pages of any parts of the Healing Services, which includes Twitter and Instagram accounts.
What options are there for local transportation?
What are the intention colors?
How do I contact Celebrating Life Ministries?
If you need to reach someone regarding the retreat you can email Maya or Renee.
Maya Paul: mayawpaul@gmail.com (California) 415-686-1311
Renee Plendl: reneeplendl@gmail.com (Illinois) 773-908-4965
All of our contact information can be found here: Contact Page
Angelika Schafer
Ordained Minister
Angelika’s gift of music touches the heart; through her inspiring compositions, soothing voice and instruments she channels the frequencies and healing energies of the angelic realms and leads us gently into that deeper space within. She sings ancient chants/Prayers from different traditions, Mantras for healing, Bhajans for singing along and her original songs accompanied by a 50 string Tamboura/Monochord and guitar.
Several contemporary mystics and masters gave special dispensation for Angelika’s music ministry to conduct powerful blessings. She has published 12 CDs and shares her music and inspirational talks worldwide at spiritual gatherings, ceremonies, conferences and healing retreats.
Website: www.AngelikaHealingMusic.com
Email: Angelika@AngelikaHealingMusic.com
Padre Paul Funfsinn
Archbishop, CLM’s Spiritual Shepherd
For over 40 years, Padre Paul has been a Spiritual Leader of Celebrating Life Ministries and continues the Healing Ministry legacy of Rev Ron Roth. Paul has a prophetic gift of reading people’s hearts from his relationship with the Holy Spirit as well as welcoming people into God’s Holy Presence. Leading prayer & healing services, as well as private spiritual consultation, is his strength where heaven and earth meet up!
Padre Paul was a mentor under international healer Rev Ron Roth, for 28 years until his passing. Paul now assumes the role of Spiritual Shepherd of this loving community and his mission is to “heal the sick” and “set people free” from oppression and negative energies.
George Lopez
Professed Monk, Music Ministry Lead
George Lopez is a monk with Celebrating Life Ministries and is also blessed to be a part of the music ministry for CLM. He has been a spiritual seeker since a very young age. Playing and singing has always been a path of direct connection to Source for him in this lifetime. In the act of creating he finds some of his deepest and most direct connection to God. Life has taught him that in the end, connection and the path to God is what matters most.
“I am honored to help facilitate the embodiment of the Divine with this
community.”
Email: hatsfordays@sbcglobal.net
Rev. Renee Plendl
Bishop, Ordained Minister
In the fall of 2010 Renee was professed a Monk in the Spirit of Peace Monastic Community, Ordained a Rev in 2022 and installed as a Bishop in 2023. Since her profession her relationship with the Divine continues to grow deeply into loving awareness, to live with an open heart, embracing mystical moments. Renee’s focus is on the practice of being fully present to the moment, to the now, and to experience the heart-centered moment when walking, breathing, praying, singing/chanting, entering into a deeper silence. She has a devotion to studying the writings of the contemplatives from a variety of traditions. Renee supports the mission and vision of CLM as an interfaith healing ministry, community of love and a place for miracles. She also supports the mission/vision of the CLM education program.
Nicole Withrow
Nicole’s relationship with CLM began in 2016, and was baptized into the community the following year. For her, CLM became a sacred doorway—one that awakened a deeper, more conscious connection with God. Her devotion to Mother Mary has since led her across the world to witness and embody the miracles of the Divine Feminine. Nicole has journeyed on pilgrimage with CLM on two occasions for sacred adventures, and supports CLM events through her contributions to the altar committee and other types of service at live events.
Listening to the quiet voice within, Nicole continues to walk a path of devotion, service, and spiritual awakening, sharing her gifts in ways that inspire healing and connection within others. Her connection to miracles inspires her daily and gives her the courage to testify openly for the gift of grace to help others share in the light.
Rev. Dana Duryea
Bishop, Ordained Minister
Rev. Dana resides in San Rafael, California. He was professed a monk in 2005, ordained as a Rev. in 2010, and was installed as a bishop for CLM in 2014. He has been attending CLM events since 1995. As a Benedictine Monk within CLM, Dana loves teaching about the ways to experience miracles & the God in you. He serves the CLM mission following the guidance of Rafael as a teacher, energy healer and exorcist.
Dana also serves separately as the Executive Director of the Foundation of Spiritual Development, a religious non-profit organization in San Rafael CA, which focuses on helping anyone understand themselves as Spirit, open to their natural graces and learn how to connect directly with God & their angels by using wisdom from many spiritual traditions. Rev. Dana has an extensive background in science growing up in a medical family, earned a Bachelors and Masters degree in Science and he uses this background, as well as his many personal experiences of miracles in his life, to make the spiritual world more accessible and understandable to others. In addition, Dana uses his graces in his day-job as a Landscape Manager and Energetic Business Consultant for one of the Bay Area’s most successful real estate developers.
Padre Paul Funfsinn
Archbishop, CLM’s Spiritual Shepherd
For over 40 years, Padre Paul has been a Spiritual Leader of Celebrating Life Ministries and continues the Healing Ministry legacy of Rev Ron Roth. Paul has a prophetic gift of reading people’s hearts from his relationship with the Holy Spirit as well as welcoming people into God’s Holy Presence. Leading prayer & healing services, as well as private spiritual consultation, is his strength where heaven and earth meet up!
Padre Paul was a mentor under international healer Rev Ron Roth, for 28 years until his passing. Paul now assumes the role of Spiritual Shepherd of this loving community and his mission is to “heal the sick” and “set people free” from oppression and negative energies.
Rev. Robert Bearden
Bishop, Ordained Minister
Rev. Robert resides in SF California. He was Professed a Monk in 2008, Ordained a Rev. in 2012, and was installed as a Bishop for CLM in 2015. He has been attending CLM events since March 1998.
As an Ordained Monk, Bishop Robert finds great joy spending time researching the lives of The Saints, supporting the mission of CLM, growing and living within the glow of The Great Compassionate Light through meditation and processes at Golden Age Movement membership, and traveling with CLM to embrace the multidimensional frequencies and expressions of The Divine. Bishop Robert’s love of God is the centerpiece of his life which he brings into his work as an Energy and dedicated spiritual healer.
Ryan Rigoli
Ordained Monk
Rev. Ryan is a Musician, Ordained Minister, and Professed Monk in Celebrating Life Ministries where he shares God’s healing Presence through devotional music, prayer, and wisdom rooted in the Heart. He was professed as a monk in 2015 and ordained as a Rev. in 2024.
As a Spiritual & Executive Coach, Ryan helps people deepen their awareness, intuition, and connection with God. One of his greatest joys is seeing people’s hearts awaken and their Divine presence shine, like a song blessing those around them with its unique tone. Ryan is a teacher at the Foundation for Spiritual Development, an Ananda Sevak with the Golden Age Movement, and is trained as an Integral Coach ®. He has created multiple meditative piano albums which bring people deep peace. Website: http://ryanrigoli.com