Our Journey, His Work: Weekend Retreat

The weekend before Thanksgiving, our team (some of us pictured below) hosted a women's retreat in Robbinsville for some very special ladies from Indiana and Lagrange, NC! The purpose of this retreat was to encourage and strengthen the individual teams coming from these different locations. If only it was easy to sum up the weekend.

Words simply do not it justice.

We began planning for the retreat a few months ago - covering it in prayer and making sure we were obedient to the roles God would give us throughout the retreat - even if that meant roles that were out of our comfort zone or something we were not necessarily good at. We met every other week and eventually once a week and the way God bonded our team and united us as one is simply beautiful. Not to mention, the Spirit led us all to a different role so the day we revealed the roles we felt the Lord was leading us too - there was no conflict! I love Father's confirmation.

We rented a cabin for the retreat weekend (Friday - Monday) which is another complete God story (feel free to ask)! Our team arrived early Friday morning to begin the preparation for everyone's arrival when we absolutely could not get the HEAT to work. Was it freezing? Oh yes! Were we surprised by this test? Absolutely NOT! After calling our husbands and eventually the owner of the cabin - still NO heat. That evening we were informed that there was a hole in the furnace which meant the heat would NOT be fixed that entire weekend. REJOICE!!! That's what we did! We knew the evil one was not thrilled about a bunch of women that love the Lord gathering together for a weekend centered around Him. We expected to be tested and we had on our armor to REJOICE admist the fiery darts!

The weekend consisted of fun activities, lots of bonding time, tons of eating, individual quiet time in the Word, discussion time together, and praise & worship time. We studied the book of Philippians and even though I have been through several studies on this book before - God rocked my world and revealed SO many new things that I have missed so many times before and that I am still processing weeks later. That's why Hebrews 4:12 says His word is ALIVE AND ACTIVE. He is always revealing new things at the most perfect time.

What was so beautiful is having a bunch of women come together that don't even know each other yet have this instant bond & connection that is only possible through Christ Jesus! Like I said before, I cannot sum up this weekend into words.

Preparing brunch for the ladies' arrival!

Was it a coincidence that we had exactly 10 women total
and the table was made for 10! Nope, God's GRACE!

In order to have a HUGE ice breaker with everyone on Friday - we divided our group into 2 teams and went on a scavenger hunt which was loads of fun! It definitely bonded us all and we laughed until we hurt! Just a few pictures to share the craziness!