Last weekend, the Northwestern women had our Fall Women’s Retreat. It was a blast! 56 girls came… 25 of them were freshmen so it was a lot of fun for new girls to get connected to the ministry. And fun is pretty easy to come by when you gather over 60 women in one house for a night (thank you to the Larsen’s for letting us use your house!). Here most of us are right before our friday night talk (I’m the one with the curly dark hair and navy blue vest, my back to the camera haha):
Friday night I talked about the universal problem of loneliness and how it points us to an even greater problem of being separated from God. I also talked about ways that we try to hide our loneliness and how these false “cover ups” show our sin problem. Later that night girls had a dance party (we got almost everyone to do the cupid shuffle!). Saturday morning Jen, another staff woman shared her testimony in light of how searching for fulfillment in people and the next life stage (if only I was dating someone, if only I was married, if only I had a baby…) is empty apart from having a relationship in Jesus Christ. Then we attempted an all girls game of football:
Huddle up and strategize…
Charge!
Try to find the football in this pic! Haha the game was a struggle!
But no worries… girls always love to sit around a talk!
Then Karyn, another staff woman, wrapped up the retreat by sharing how the Gospel of Jesus Christ frees us to be authentic with one another, to forgive one another, and to love people, and not need them to fulfill us. Ultimately we can look forward to heaven when we’ll be able to perfectly relate to God and to one another.
It was a fun retreat! Thanks for all who prayed for us!
