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Summer 2024 Retreat: July 26-28, 2024 for women only. Fall 2024 Retreat: To Be Determined for both women and men. Spring 2025 Retreat: April 25-27, 2025 for both women and men.
Email [email protected] to request more information. A retreat allows you to get away from the responsibilities of everyday life and focus on receiving the healing of the Lord while allowing others to serve you and meet your needs.
You will be immersed in support, love, worship, and Scripture as we walk through a healing path for the weekend. Many return home refreshed in the Lord, carrying a new identity to start a new season. Remember, there is no cost whatsoever to attend a retreat. Retreat Description
Friday afternoon The retreat starts with a welcome, introductions, and some opening remarks to set a framework and expectations for the weekend. Next, we spend some time in singing and worship. This invites God’s presence and His peace and prepares our hearts to be knit together. Friday evening This evening is spent in sharing our stories. For many of you this may be the first time you have ever openly shared your story, but it is a critical first step in the healing process. Some of our team members will also share a brief story from their life. Some team members have had abortions and others have not, but we all have a story of a healing journey. We believe it’s important for us as team members to be vulnerable and transparent with you, even as we are asking you to do the same. Saturday morning We start the morning with worship, and then we do a teaching called ‘The Perfect Sacrifice’. This is taken primarily from Isaiah 53, and covers the atoning work of Jesus Christ on the cross. After the teaching, a team member will lead you through a time of prayer addressing forgiveness and reconciliation. Saturday afternoon Redemptive grieving is a necessary step in the healing process. We address this issue and offer you tangible ways to connect with your lost child (ren). This gesture brings a redemptive action to your grief. Next, we affirm the vital role of motherhood and fatherhood. Abortion damages the heart of a mother and a father. Only as your mother's or father’s heart is spiritually reconciled to your lost child (ren) can you be free to embrace your calling to mother or father from a healthy heart. We refer to this calling as the “Mother Mantle” and the “Father Mantle”. We affirm this healing step with a powerful symbol as well. Next, we address taking responsibility for the consequences of abortion that can affect our living children, our cities, our churches, and our land. We then pray with you to break the common spiritual strongholds that can be erected in our lives as a result of sin and poor choices. You will then have an opportunity for personal prayer ministry or for free time. |
RETREAT ADVANTAGES Our heavenly Father is full of mercy, grace and compassion. He longs to see the wounded and grief-stricken healed and set free from their captivity. The Bible teaches in Isaiah 61:1-3 that God has anointed us, His people, to bring good news to the afflicted, to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and to bring freedom to the prisoners. Further it says that we are to comfort all who mourn, to give a garland of beauty instead of ashes, to anoint with the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and to place a mantle of praise where there has been a spirit of fainting. This scripture is the backdrop for our Deeper Still retreats. God can bring healing to people in a variety of ways, but we have found that a retreat setting is the most conducive venue to help women go to deep places of healing in a short amount of time.
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