Journey to Retreat 2010 – October

Our October leaders’ meeting took place this week.  We are about 6 weeks out from the retreat.  Registration is in full swing and the excitement is building. Additionally, our fall women’s Bible study has just begun, we have a Christmas dessert in the preliminary planning stages, and the women’s ministry is sponsoring a booth at the church’s annual Hallelujah party on Oct. 31.  So we had a lot to discuss, but our major topic of discussion was the women’s retreat.

• Registration is going well, and will continue for about 2-1/2 more weeks.
• We have a new leader in charge of registration at the retreat, and she has been trained.
• Books for the book table have been ordered, and will hopefully be in the hands of the reviewers in the next week.
• Skit(s) are being fine-tuned, and final scripts will be ready this week.  Those who have volunteered to help with production (behind the scenes and on stage) will be contacted with times for a read-through and practice.
• Name tags have been designed.
• We were hoping to find a suitable charm to use as a remembrance gift.  However, we have run into a snag in that area, and time is getting short.
• Still in progress:  our schedule and program booklet, the quiet time study, decorations, name tags and remembrance gifts.
• A work party (for any woman who wants to help) has been schedule for the end of October.  At this work party, we may work on name tags, remembrance gifts, decorations…anything that needs helping hands.
• A couple of leaders will be going out to the hotel to finalize how/where/when we will be able to set up our sound system, staging, etc.

Since our next meeting is about ten days prior to the retreat, a lot things will have happened before that meeting.

• Registration will have ended, and the rooming list and BEO’s (Banquet Event Orders) will have been sent to the hotel.
• Skit practices will have taken place.
• Book table will be ready.
• Name tags, booklets and remembrance gifts, if not completed, will be in process.
• We will be prepared for the Prayer Meeting for the Women’s Retreat on November 7.
• Items to be taken to the retreat will be accumulating as they are readied.

This is a busy time for all of our women’s leaders, and more than ever we need to cover all that we do with prayer.  We want God to work in the lives of women at our retreat!