Women’s Retreat II

Come to the Women’s Retreats and learn where to find contentment and purpose. Enjoy fellowship with women facing similar life challenges. It’s a time of mentoring and healing, of laughing and sitting back and realizing, “I can do this!” Spend a faith-renewing, invigorating weekend among friends! Learn, inquire, share, grow during this retreat designed for adult women. Thematic study sessions will be held throughout the weekend.

Dress for these weekends is casual — this is your time to unwind and leave your daily routine behind. Please arrange to have all children and spouses cared for at home. We will conduct our own Sunday morning worship, so leave heels and hose at home, too! Guests will want a sweatshirt or jacket for evenings, and jeans or shorts for daytime activities. Don’t forget to bring your suit for sunning or swimming.

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Throughout the weekend, Presenter Lisa Lessing and Host Phyllis Wallace will lead sessions for the entire group on the following topic:

“I’ve Got Rhythm! Who Could Ask For Anything More!”

Job says “My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle” (Job 7.6) and “swifter than a runner.” (9.25) So true! Day-planners dictate, “Be here! Be there!” You lay on the pillow and wonder, “O God, where did the day go?” His answer: “Daughter, you need my rhythm!” Come ponder God’s gift of time, Biblically. Learn to translate His rhythms, set into motion at creation with cycles and seasons, into clock and calendar times, kairos moments and carpe’ diem opportunities we miss, carefully managing time. God’s rhythms bring peace to replace anxiety and depression from our honorable time management attempts. This is great news! Who could ask for anything more?!

Lisa Lessing, St. Louis, MO , Presenter

Lisa is a native “Okie,” born and raised in Tulsa, OK. She has been married for 29 years and has three children ages 25, 22 and 19. Lisa received her master’s in counseling from Covenant Seminary and has worked as a licensed professional counselor. Currently she works as a school counselor for Lutheran High School South in St. Louis. Lisa enjoys writing and leading women’s retreats. Her heart is to come alongside women to help and encourage them toward a deeper and richer Christ-filled journey.

Phyllis Wallace, Collinsville, IL, Host

Phyllis Wallace, Host of Woman to Woman Radio

The originator and host of the “Woman to Woman” radio talk show,* Phyllis also initiated Camp Arcadia’s Women’s Retreats in 1997. Her contagious love of life and God’s “Yes!” restore and refresh those in her presence. A typical response to her events [or seminars and retreats] is, “She made us laugh and cry, think and dream, pray and praise, all in one session.”

For reruns go to womantowomanradio.com.