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When you give toward this area of need you're helping to provide lodging for upcoming retreats. Most of our retreats are held at the beautiful and peaceful Spacious Place ranch in Okeechobee, Florida. Lodging is the biggest cost for any retreat so giving to this need allows us to keep costs as low as possible for retreat attendees.
With any retreat there is a need to provide delicious and nutritious meals for guests. Food for retreats is our second large retreat expense. When you give toward this need you allow us to stock the pantry with all the favorites of the specific guests who will be in attendance while allowing us to keep their out of pocket costs low.
There's something about arriving to your retreat lodging and finding a gift bag filled with goodies just for you that makes you feel loved. We fill these gift bags with goodies like favorite treats, journals, pens, toiletries, candles, slippers, t-shirts, and more. It's just one of the ways we like to care for our guests. You can donate to this need or you can sign up to host a Pour Out Party.
Sure we could do a retreat without this but it's just one of the extra things that make our guest feel nourished and loved. Whether we're offering massage, facials, haircuts or pedicure services, one thing is for sure - our guests will feel pampered and loved! Your gifts help make this possible by helping us bring in professionals who can provide these services for our guests at no cost to them.
One thing that we feel is important to include at every retreat is a trained and licensed counselor. Whether we're hosting missionaries, adoptive moms, ministry leaders, or someone who simply needs to get away - we want to provide a safe space to process through the stresses of life. When you give to this need, you allow us to bring in professional counselors who can schedule one on one sessions with retreat attendees.
Many of our retreat guests travel from out of state. They are tired, weary and in desperate need of rest and restoration. We understand that high flight costs can be a determining factor that keeps some from coming to one of our life-giving retreats. Your gift to this area of need helps us assist with those costs so that those in need of a retreat are not prevented from coming for financial reasons.
Gas and rental car prices have skyrocketed in recent years making it challenging for those who need restoration to be able to travel for a retreat. When you give to this area of need, you're allowing us to help cover gas and rental car costs for those who need assistance in that area.
One of the areas of need is sponsorship. Sponsorship helps cover the cost of an upcoming retreat for a guest with a financial need. You can do a full or partial sponsorship or give any amount to the sponsorship fund. If you know of a specific person who would like to attend a retreat but cannot afford it, you can sponsor their costs. Or you can simply give to the fund which allows us to cover retreat costs for those in need of assistance.
Worship is a crucial part of any retreat. After all, our retreats are all about Jesus and pressing into Him. We couldn't do these retreats without our worship leaders. Many of them travel from other states to lead worship at our retreats. This fund will help us cover their costs to attend and provide them with a small love offering for giving of their time and musical talents.
While it's certainly not glamorous, it is an important part of our retreats. We create schedules, worship lyric sheets, sign up sheets for counseling sessions and so on - and all of those printed pages cost money. When you give to this area, you're helping to cover this practical need.
This is often one of the hardest areas for any ministry to raise funds for but is one of the most important. Ministry simply cannot operate without some overhead costs. When you give to this area of need you're helping toward costs like website hosting, marketing resources, internet, etc.
At the moment, RNR is made up of volunteers, board members and one staff who is raising support. When you give to staff support, you allow us to provide an income to our Executive Director, Autumn Kerr. The best way to give to this area of need is by giving a monthly gift.