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Music is a must for any retreat! Times of worship during your retreat provide opportunities:

Day 13 – Worship Ideas for Your Retreat

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Food. For some of us (myself included) food is a big deal.

Day 11 – What will you eat on your retreat?

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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.

You’ve got your date picked, your theme set, and the budget to hire a speaker. But how do you find one? And how do you ensure they’re going to be a good fit for your church? Let’s start with the “big one”. How do you find a speaker? Once you find a speaker that you’d…

Day 7 – How to Find a Speaker

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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.

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”.

Day 4 – When should you have your women’s ministry retreat?

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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?