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Our event planning series continues today with one of the most important decisions you’ll make – what to charge for your event. We’re specifically talking about big events in this series. Big events typically have big budgets. In most cases, you’re probably going to charge your women something to attend, even if your budget covers…
This series on planning purposeful events continues with a focus on building effective event planning teams. I was chatting with another women’s ministry leader last week, and she mentioned their church hasn’t had a retreat in about 10 years because it is so much work! Maybe you’re in the same boat. Or perhaps you’re committed…
Getting the women at your retreat or conference to try new things and break free from their friend circle (cliques) can be a challenge.
I have written dozens, if not hundreds, of posts related to women’s ministry event planning over the years.
The struggle is real! It can be down-right frustrating to find great places for your Christian retreats.
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” While no doubt Charles Dickens wasn’t referring to women’s ministry retreats, many of us would borrow those words to describe our retreat and retreat planning experience.
I thought the perfect way to end our 31 Days of Retreat Planning would be to give you a Retreat Planning Timeline. We’ve worked through a pile of details and it can be helpful to organize the pieces all in one place.
A neat thing happened after our retreat this year. Quite by accident we were able to keep some of our retreat momentum going.
I did not know one of our team members was going to have a photo booth set up for us to use at our retreat in September. But I am so glad she put one together for us!
It’s a really nice touch to give your attendees a goodie bag or small gift when they check in at your retreat location. Goodie bags and gifts don’t have to be expensive or extensive. Our teams have used retreat goodies bags to provide each woman with some practical items for the weekend and to give them a small…
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