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Today I’m going to share some actual, real-life retreat schedules with you. I hope you’ll find them helpful as you plan. Keep in mind, they aren’t perfect! You’ll want to tweak them to best suit the needs of your women and your location. Two-Night Retreat Schedules I’ve pulled out three of the two-night schedules that…

Day 12 – Ideas for Your Retreat Schedule

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Decorations can be a fun way to play up the theme of your women’s ministry retreat. Lighthouses, oversize coffee cups, mason jars with flowers, bowls of fruit, and princess crowns.

Day 10 – Decorating for Your Women’s Ministry Retreat

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Forgive me if this comes across as a little blunt or bossy, but I believe you need to set up a separate Retreat Planning Team.

Day 9 – Your Retreat Planning Team

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It goes without saying that praying for your retreat is paramount. Your speaker, your team, and your attendees will likely confront spiritual opposition during the weeks and days before your retreat. Prayer is our greatest weapon, but we sometimes forget how to use it. When I am knee deep in the trenches of retreat planning my…

Five ways to pray for your women's ministry retreat. Includes free 30 day retreat prayer calendar.

Retreats come in many shapes and sizes. Prayerfully consider which type of retreat God is asking you to plan for your women in this season. You may host one time of retreat this year and a different type of retreat the next.

Day 6 – Different Types of Retreats

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We’ve covered the WHEN, WHERE, and the WHY of planning a women’s ministry retreat. Today we’re going to talk about how to pick a retreat theme.

Day 5 – How to Pick a Retreat Theme

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So we’ve worked through “where” you might want to have your women’s ministry retreat. Today, we’re going to dig into the “when”.

Location, location, location. When looking for a women’s ministry retreat location there are several things you need to consider.

Day 3 – Where should you go for your women’s ministry retreat?

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Before we start planning, we need to tackle the “why”. Why are women’s ministry retreats important? Why are they needed?

Day 2 – 15 Benefits of a Women’s Ministry Retreat

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Are you sensing that the Lord may be asking you or your team to plan a women’s ministry retreat? How do you figure out if that’s really the direction God is taking your team?