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Registration is a great task for your type-A girls. You need someone who is detail oriented to oversee your retreat registrations.

Day 15 – Retreat Registration Tips

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

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…

5 Ways to Pray for Your Retreat (Free Printable)

Conferences & Retreats

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.

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”.

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.