Our Annual Spring Retreat was held on Saturday, April 30th at the church. What a wonderful day of fellowship and fun for all 44 ladies that attended! In the morning, we had time for signing praises and personal testimonials on the power of prayer, followed by small group discussion breakouts. After lunch together, we devoted the afternoon to mission outreach crafting activities. As you will see in the pictures below, we were able to create MANY wonderful items to donate to various local organizations including pampering kits for the ladies that are in our church as a part of our host week for Family Promise, prayer quilts for three Redeemer families, 26 fleece tied blankets going to various organizations, including an outreach to children in Juarez, Mexico and hand knitted infant caps for local hospitals. If you missed this fun event, make a point to attend next year! This is truly a great way to get to know your sisters at Redeemer while praising and serving our Lord!
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The theme for the 2016 Spring Retreat was "Hands to Work, Hearts to God," which complimented our focus on spiritual growth in our prayer life for the morning session, and putting our hands to work with mission outreach activities in the afternoon session.
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A group of ladies (and youth) blessed our day by leading our songs of praise!
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Lisa Trigsted and Lori Bajema shared personal testimonials on how God's grace and prayer has impacted their life and their families.
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It was exciting to have a number of our youth join the retreat this year!
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Marilyn Van Pelt led the ladies in creating three prayer quilts for Redeemer families. As each knot was tied on these special quilts, prayers were given for the specific needs identified by each recipient. Each person was also given the opportunity to add a personal message or Bible verse to the quilt.
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Rowena Yates led a group in making salt scrub to add to the other items in our pampering kits for Family Promise. We hope to shower a little love on the Family Promise women that we serve in our church during our host weeks ahead with these "surprise" kits!
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What an AMAZING stack of beautiful fleece blankets to share with various organizations that serve children in our local community and beyond! Everyone worked hard to finish 26 blankets during the retreat, in a wide variety of "kid friendly" themes! These blankets will be given to children that have likely never had a "special blanket" to snuggle or keep them warm, including 10 of them going with a local church mission trip to Juarez, Mexico to hand out to the children in that community.
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June Buzzell and Christine Broom led the knitting group that made adorable infant caps to share with local hospitals that provide them to newborn babies and their parents. What a special blessing these darling caps will be to these precious little ones and their families!
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