Women's Retreats: A Creative Planning Guide. This item is unavailable.Women's Retreats: A Creative Planning Guide

This workbook will guide leaders through each step in the planning and production of a transforming women's retreat. It offers a month-by-month checklist as well as fully detailed, illustrated examples of successful retreats that any church can borrow or adapt.

The five sections are:
(1) Prologue—Why retreat?
(2) People—Find the ideal speaker, select the team, etc.
(3) Preparation—Begin right
(4) Process—Make it happen
(5) Presenting—Five examples of actual women's retreats

• Addresses a growing area in the church—women's ministries—and one of the most time-consuming functions—retreats
• Practical with real-life examples and experience
• Workbook style helps with quick and efficient organization
• Authors circulate in women's ministries circles

Sue Edwards (M.A., Dallas Theological Seminary; D.Min., Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary) teaches full-time in the Christian Education Department at Dallas Theological Seminary. She has more than twenty-five years of experience teaching, pastoring, and directing women's ministries. In addition, Sue speaks at retreats, conferences, and seminars across the country. She is the coauthor of Women's Retreats and New Doors in Ministry to Women, and the author of the new Sue Edwards Inductive Bible Study series.<br /><br />Kelley Mathews (Th.M., Dallas Theological Seminary) is a freelance writer and editor. A former women's ministry leader, she is the coauthor of Women's Retreats and New Doors in Ministry to Women. She lives with her husband, John, and her three children Texas.<br /><br />Linda Robinson is a lay leader of women's ministries at Irving Bible Church, where she has been a member for twenty-five years.