The OFM annual conference which takes place after Easter each year at Yarnfield Park, Staffordshire, runs from Monday afternoon until Thursday lunchtime and is open to all, whether clergy, religious, or lay. We offer a reduced rate for ordinands and members of religious communities. Bursary funding is also available.

‘Pilgrim People’: Finding Holiness along the Way

As disciples of Jesus, pilgrim people on a life-long journey of faith, we are called to grow in holiness as we travel with Christ. How is the Spirit equipping and inspiring us on our journey today? On Fire Mission invites you to come as you are and join us at OFM onsite 2025 for a time away to recharge, to discover fresh perspectives and insights, and to become part of a Spirit-filled, creative, sacramental community; equipping Christians to become agents of renewal in their local context. We will be joined by a host of great contributors, from across the OFM network and beyond, offering great teaching, inspiring workshops, dynamic worship and much more.

Keynote Speakers:

Gemma Simmonds is a sister of the Congregation of Jesus and a senior research fellow at the Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology, Cambridge where she teaches pastoral theology and Christian spirituality.  She has worked as a spiritual director and retreat giver, training candidates for religious life and ordination in the Catholic and Anglican churches.  Gemma has been a missionary in Brazil, a chaplain in the Universities of Cambridge and London and a volunteer chaplain in Holloway Prison. She is a regular religious broadcaster on BBC radio and has published extensively in the areas of spirituality, religious life and ecclesiology.

More great speakers to be announced – watch this space!