Women's Retreat-#3- The Joy of the Lord is my Strength

 Messiah Lutheran - Charlotte, NC

 Women's Retreat 2016

A Full Weekend Event

March 4-6

The event included

a Thank You to Sue Baldinger 

for her gift of service 

for 40 years in Ministry.

 Meeting new People.

 Learning about Visual Prayer 

and Time to Pray and Color

 Intercessory Prayer 

 and Blessing Others with Visual Prayers

 Retreat Team Leaders Included:

Sherri Twente

 Jenny Long

Charlene Jenkins 

There were sister groups, and

Grandmother- Daughter- Granddaughter.

Singing and time to Praise

 Paula Weiss was a great helper 

in preparing and leading 

the Sunday Worship

 Always great conversation 

around the tables-

 Thanks Table leaders!

Ice Breakers and Get up and Moves-

 Led by Jenny Long

Retreat Leader- Connie Denninger - Left

and a wonderful reunion

 with the Spear- and Long family

a family from our first years

 in ministry in Nebraska

Each table led a piece of the 

Sunday am worship service

For His mercy is Good.

And we are always loved.

If you have photos you might want to include- 

email them to Connie at  condoit@aol.com

Women's Retreat #2- the Joy of the Lord is My Strength

Joy- Nehemiah 8:10

Visual Prayer

Seeing the World as a Prayer Canvas

 Time to create

a Journal for 

Counting Gifts.

One gift per day

To SEE HIS FAITHFULNESS.

Prayers by the Month

One page per month

Collecting the prayer concerns and praises

on One page for the Month

 Personalized Covers

Collage and Words to 

Make it YOUR OWN

Visual Prayers

To Slow Down

Pay Attention 

and Deal with Distractions

Women's Retreat- #1-The Joy of the Lord is my Strength-

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

His Word

Counting Gifts-Ann Voskamp

Visual Prayer- Sybil MacBeth

Bible Journaling- Illustrated Faith

 The Joy of the Lord is your strength. 

Nehemiah 8:10

All is Grace

Morning breaks over 

the Myrtle Beach coastline

Processing time

Creating- 

because our creator God

 only creates creative people.

Retreat facilitator Connie Denninger (Left)

with long- time friend Joan Wilson

Those attending the retreat gathered from:

 Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,

Minnesota, Michigan and Indiana

The retreat was planned and sponsored by

 Messiah Lutheran Church

 in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Sally Beck- Central Region

Maybe this devotional

 is an offering at your church

 this Lenten season for personal reading.

This particular one features the drawings

 of artist- Sally Beck.

Below are some of Sally's vivid images 

that she shares for

your Lenten reflection time.

Sally Beck

Sally had a lovely job as 

an illustrator and art editor for 

Creative Communications for the Parish

 in St. Louis. 

In fact, it was perhaps the 

best job in the world,

 one in which she could happily

 use her art to express her faith.

 For her, seeing and putting something down

 on paper helps her figure out the world, 

(something that people presently doing 

Bible journaling may also experience). 

She and her family have lived on both coasts, 

in the middle and now in Williamsburg, VA. 

She and her husband, Gordon,

 have three children 

and three delightful grandchildren.

From time to time we will be sharing 

on this blog the work of artist Sally Beck.