Living The Life - Keeping The Faith

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Our meeting room - The Pines The Inn- where the offices and dining room is

This weekend was our Pacific NW District Women's Retreat in Seabeck, WA. When we arrived on Friday the weather was beautiful and sunny. It made the place even nicer.

It was an exhausting yet wonderful weekend! We had almost 70 ladies from around the district ranging from 16 to 90 years old. Our speaker, Carley Wecks, was wonderful! She spoke to our hearts. She was convicting, motivating, touching, personal, and relevant. She had the perfect mix of Scripture, personal stories, and group discussion. It was the first retreat I had been to in a long time that I truly felt like God was speaking to me.



We also had wonderful praise music with many of my favorite praise songs and hymns! Thanks Sonja and Ann!



Saturday evening we had a previous missionaries wife speak on how our current missionary wives are "Living the Life and Keeping the Faith". She wrote to all of the wives and asked them to send her a letter and she got LOTS of pages in response. After much editing, she read a 15-page compliation that really got to the heart of what our missionary wives are experiencing out on the field in Taiwan, Japan, East Asia, and Chad. And as if that weren't powerful enough, just as she was wrapping up the bagpipe band from the building next store came over and gave us an impromptu concert. (You can check it out on our friend Kari's blog from her link on our Friends list) It was really cool!



But we also had lots of fun with a Spa Nite on Friday evening with facials, sugar scrubs, nail polish and warm neck pillows. And on Saturday afternoon, we had crafts, shopping trips, and naps (to make up for the lack of sleep). Saturday night we had our testimony time and many of our ladies shared how God had worked in their lives. It was great!



Then on Sunday morning, my friend Anne Marie shared about how to Keep the Faith by being in the Word. I love Anne Marie! She had us rolling on the floor laughing while she shared real life stories from her life that were perfect illustrations of why we NEED to be in the Word.



Needless to say, it was a fantastic retreat and God answered ALL of our prayers and more! I can't believe I didn't get ANY pictures! AHHHHHH!!! I am hoping to contact someone who I know did take pictures and get her to send them to me.