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

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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…

5 Ways to Pray for Your Retreat (Free Printable)

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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.

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”.

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?

Day 1 – Is God calling your women to retreat?

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Are you struggling to find childcare solutions for your women’s ministry Bible studies, events, and activities?

Struggling to find childcare workers? Here are some ideas that work!

The future of your women’s ministry is meeting down the hall in the Youth Room. Yep, those girls down the hallway on their phones will soon graduate and will be checking your “women’s ministry”.

Is there a place for teens in your women’s ministry?

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Last week I shared about the four years I spent in a prayer group and how you might start your own prayer group. As promised, I’m sharing the Prayer Guide we used each week to keep us focused. You are welcome to print and use it as is, or tweak it and make it your…

Prayer Group Guide (Free Printable)

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Prayer Group Guide Free Printable

For four years I had the privilege of being a part of a small prayer group. Those precious ladies prayed me through my father’s brief battle with brain cancer, a rocky time in our marriage, and our boys’ sometimes bumpy elementary school years.

Tips and best practices for launching a prayer group for the women in your church or community.