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“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.
The number one question I receive is “How do we get the younger (or in some cases older) women in our church to participate?”

Please note: This post contains affiliate links. Last week we hosted our first-ever Bible Journaling event at our church. In all honesty, I wasn’t sure I was going to enjoy it. I’m okay with making notes in my Bible margins, but I wasn’t sure I could handle using craft supplies… Not only did I end…

If you or your team has ever shied away from boldly sharing Jesus with your guests and your women in attendance, this post is for you. After a discussion at our last women’s ministry team meeting God reminded me of a time when my desire and intentions to share Jesus while well-meaning, were misguided.

Encouragement. I could sure use some. Could you? I’m guessing we all know several women in our lives that could use an encouraging word or gesture.

Please note: This post contains affiliate links. Chances are you’re going to play a few Christmas Icebreaker Games at your Christmas party. It’s nice to have a few inexpensive prizes to give out to the winners. Several years back we held a Sunday school party for the High school Juniors that we were teaching. We…

The Fellowship Idea: Comfort Food is the perfect event for January or any cold winter month.

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!

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