Women's Retreats - Camp Arcadia

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Come to the women’s retreats and enjoy time of faith, fellowship, and fun. Enjoy conversation with women who are facing similar joys and challenges. It is a time of mentoring and healing, of laughing and relaxing and of learning and sharing designed specifically for adult women. For the latest information on the 2021 season, please click here.

Women’s Retreat I with Priscilla Newton (September 17 - 19)

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Speaker: Priscilla Newton

Women of Strength

Are you a strong woman…or a woman of strength? What’s the difference? What does the world say we should be? We’re told to be “all we can be”…..but what does that mean? Often the focus is on what we can DO, not WHO is working in us. But who are we in Christ and how is that different from the world? Let’s see what it really means to be “women of strength.”

Priscilla Newton is a native Californian (born and raised in the Napa Valley) who recently moved to Michigan with her husband Bob. A mother of 4, grandmother of 14 she has survived the exciting life as a missionary wife (Philippines and Papua New Guinea), a Seminary professor’s wife, parish pastor’s wife (in San Jose, CA), District President’s wife (CNH District), and retired first grade teacher! It has been a thrilling, disillusioning, exciting, humbling, lonely, surprising and faith-filled journey. All along the way, Prov.3:5-6 has led and guided her as Christ has held her along the way

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Women’s Retreat 2 with Lynn Corker (September 24 - 26)

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Speaker: Lynn Corker

Shameless Stories from the Backside – Exploring Humor, Humility, and Hope

Do you have an embarrassing story that maybe is funny now, but wasn’t then? How about a story that is embarrassing because, well, you’re not proud of it? The world tells us to shove our shame way down…but God redeems what is intended for our destruction. We can find humor in our own humbling moments and use them to hear and be God’s voice of hope…and it starts with relationship.

Lynn Corker is a Jesus follower and mother to adopted daughter, Newell. She grew up in Michigan and studied Family Life at Concordia, Ann Arbor. In 2014 she started Women of the Pearl; a ministry in Uganda to help women know Jesus. When she’s not travelling, or in the school drop-off line, she spends time serving women through various Bible studies and sharing her story of hope at retreats.

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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.

Throughout the weekend, Women’s Retreat Coordinator Pat Maier and the guest presenters will share stories, lead discussions, and facilitate Bible study in large-and small groups.

Check-in is on Friday between 4 and 7:30. Dinner will be provided at either 5:30 pm or 6:30 pm depending on your dining time. The welcome and evening program begins at 7:15 pm at the Chapel on the Beach. The evening ends with social time on the patio. Following a served breakfast in the morning are speaker sessions and breakout sessions. A “take out” lunch is provided for you to enjoy at Camp or somewhere in the local area! Free time for several hours in the afternoon is the perfect opportunity to read, enjoy the beach, or take a well-deserved nap! Dinner is served at 5:30 pm or 6:30 pm and an evening session, singing and campfire fill our time! Check-out is after Bible study, worship and take out lunch on Sunday afternoon.

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