Peculiar Treasures Women’s Retreat
Friday Night

4:00 – 6:30 p.m. As women arrive they will be directed to rooms and enjoy a dinner with friends at a local restaurant.

7:00 – 7:15 p.m. Icebreaker Buddy Bump and reveal the top three things you treasure most and why?

7:15 – 8:00 p.m. Worship

8:00 – 8:45 p.m. MaryLynne shares on why we are Peculiar Treasures.

8:45 – 9:00 p.m. Laura shares her personal testimony on discovering that she is a peculiar treasure and then presents the Gospel.

9:00 - ? Free time/snack/games in conference room

Saturday Morning

8:00 – 9:00 a.m. Breakfast

9:00 – 9:30 a.m. Game The Love Connection

9:30 – 10:00 a.m. Worship

10:00 – 10:15 a.m. Recap on last nights talk and reveal not only are we treasures but we possess treasure. We will cover three of those this weekend. The first one, Love, offered by Katie Mansfield.

10:15 – 11:00 a.m. Katie shares on the treasure of Love.

11:00 – 11:30 p.m. Break.

11:30 p.m. Lunch.

Afternoon Free to work on quiet time sheets, activities, relax, etc.

5:00 p.m. Dinner

Saturday Night

6:30 p.m. The Three Graces Skit

7:00 – 7:30 p.m. Worship

7:30 – 8:15 p.m. Laura will share on the treasure of Grace.

8:15 – 8:30 p.m. Break and snack
Release to work on Quiet Time Sheets

8:30 – 9:00 p.m. Craft Treasure Boxes

9:00 p.m. - Games in conference room

Sunday Morning

8:00 – 9:00 a.m. Breakfast in conference room

9:00 – 9:15 a.m. Announcements, Evaluation Forms, etc.

9:15 – 9:45 a.m. Worship

9:45 – 10:30 a.m. MaryLynne shares on the treasure of Forgiveness

10:30 – 10:45 a.m. Quiet Reflection Time

10:45 – 11:15 a.m. Communion

11:15 – 11:30 a.m. Send off with prayer, blessing and charge.

11:30 a.m. Dismissed!

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Peculiar Treasures
Examples:

Friday PM
“But you are a chosen generation, royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people that you should show forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.” 1 Peter 2:9

1. History
2. Chosen Generation “You have not chosen me but I have chosen you.” John 15:16
3. A Royal Priesthood Luke 23:44-46 “The Lord is over the righteous and hears their prayers.” 1 Peter 3:12
4. Holy Nation
5. A Peculiar People

God’s own possession (periporesin)
Duet. 14:2
Psalm 135:4
Duet. 26:18
Exodus 19:5
Matthew 13:24

For tomorrow morning read 2 Corinthians 4:7-18 and answer the following questions.

1. Do you feel like you are in a love relationship with the Lord? If not, what do you think is hindering that relationship?
2. How have you seen God’s love demonstrated in hardship?

Sunday AM
Forgiveness
“I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness. I will build you up again and you will be rebuilt O virgin Israel. Again you will take up your tambourines and will go out and dance with the joyful. Again you will plant vineyards on the hills of Samaria. The farmers will plant them and enjoy their fruit.”
Jeremiah 31:3

1. Forgiveness is not forgetting.
   “Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.” Hebrews 10:17
2. Forgiveness is a choice.
3. Forgiveness is agreeing to live with the consequences of another’s sin.“For he made him who knew no sin to be sin for us that we might become the righteousness of God in him.” 2 Corinthians 5:21
4. Forgiveness comes from the heart.

Response

Lord, I forgive_______________________, (God, myself)
for ___________________________________ (specifically identify offense, pain or memory of what he/she did).

I made me feel_________________________________________________
(i.e. rejected, unloved, unworthy, dirty, abandoned, etc.)

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