Women's Retreat - More Information

The Kansas-Nebraska Seventh-day Adventist Christian Women’s Retreat will be held October 3-5, 2008 at the Interstate 80 Holiday Inn in Grand Island, Nebraska (exit 312). The phone number of the hotel is: #308-384-7770. This time of spiritual refreshing is
open to all women 18 years of age and older. No children or babies, please. Check-in will be in the Holiday Inn lobby on October 3 from 4-6 p.m. A supper buffet will be served beginning at 6 p.m. The Friday evening meeting featuring Libby Roos will begin at 7 p.m. Our retreat will conclude at approximately 12:00 noon on Sunday, October 5. Those wishing to share a quad, triple, or double room need to personally make arrangements with those ladies. Write the names of your roommates on your registration form, or we will assign roommates to fill rooms where needed. Each person must register individually. Registration fee must be paid in full before arriving at the retreat. Sorry, no children are allowed at the meetings. Nursing babies may come if they remain in the room and are cared for by someone staying in the room with them.

Health Seminar- “A Better Way for a Better You!”
Vivian Neuharth, RN, BSN, COHN, & Jay MacEwen, RN will provide you with tools to make positive choices in your eating and lifestyle. You might be surprised at what you learn!

Creative Crafts with Shelly Opp
Enclose $10 for each option chosen – Maximum of two craft options per person. Stamping Table: Stamp 10 items Gift Sacks/ Cards / Bookmarks Holiday Wall Banner: Beautiful Holiday Banner to Paint with Acrylic paint on canvas Wooden Tray Centerpiece: Use stencils to paint and decorate with a variety of items–tray has rustic wooden candle holders attached inside (Candles not included.) Large Gift Box: Decorate in a variety of ways using paint / stencils / tulle

Evening Relaxing — Swimming Pool / Hot Tub
Shopping Fun - Adventist Book Center Open all evening Watch for Libby’s new book, Craving Changes, available mid-July 2008

This series of presentations teaches and provides participants with an easy-to-implement strategy for restructuring lifestyle habits to increase effectiveness and wellbeing in every area of life, regardless of life stage. Overcoming adversity and transforming dreams into reality requires effective thinking; unfortunately, most people never stop to consider how they think. Directing the thoughts toward one’s most important goals takes focused attention as well as understanding the many obstacles that encumber your path. You will be given tools which will empower you to take control of your life. Dynamic messages will include:

An Exodus Story
Libby shares how her life was transformed from drug abuse and personal tragedy to that of vision, purpose and joy.

Cross Roads
This view of the cross, as it relates to practical life, is guaranteed to create a paradigm shift in your thinking as you face everyday struggles, revealing a powerful path for transformation.

Craving Changes
We all crave change in our lives. Libby will share exactly how to succeed in the process of re-training thoughts along God-directed paths, creating a more healthy life; the precious process of Mind Gardening‚

The Lifestyle Habits
A healthy lifestyle doesn’t just happen, it has to be created. Libby will share how Mind Gardening™ can bring transformation to any area of life and she’ll target key areas of interest to illustrate exactly how this is accomplished. This series of presentations teach and provide participants with an easy-toimplement strategy for restructuring lifestyle habits to increase effectiveness and wellbeing in every area of life, regardless of life stage.

Learn practical, Biblical principles that will help us live on a vertical level with God, fulfilling the mission He has for us as wives and women. Realize that we are secret agents for God whom He can use to help others in our lives. We will have fun growing and sharing together. We might even discover that we have a few secret weapons available! We will recognize that God has called us to be secret agents for Him, and that He can use us to help others.

Mario Cuomo said, “I talk and talk and talk, and I haven’t taught people in fifty years what my father taught me by example in one week.” We try to learn how to discipline when in reality we need to learn how to live well. The word Discipline comes from the word Disciple. We must learn how to be Disciples of our Heavenly Father so that our children will learn how to be His disciples by our example more than our words.”

Learn techniques how you can make a difference for Christ in your neighborhood and community from a group of ladies who are doing it!

Through my ex-husband’s abuse I lost my ability to think clearly, to function and all my self-respect. When I fell on my knees and screamed to God to help me, He did. He led my boys and I to understand that asking “why” is not the question He wants from us, His plans are far bigger than that. Statistics about spousal abuse, both in the mid-west and nationally, are astronomically high. We know it is just as prevalent in our churches, how do we address it? A few victims in a church will need many helpers, but ‘she’ can not ask for help, we have to learn to find ‘her’.

Current research shows that the majority of congregations are made up of mostly adults 40+ or children below the age of 12. The least common age group in congregations today are the 20- and 30-somethings. What is happening with these generations in between? Let’s talk about why these youth and young adult age groups may not be fully engaged in today’s congregations and what we can do to make sure they feel welcomed, appreciated, and involved. Let’s discover the tremendous blessing these age groups can be to our churches and how the churches can be a blessing to them in return.

Think about the origin of low self esteem and you cannot help but come to the conclusion that it is somehow part of the larger sin problem of our planet. God created the world perfect. He made a man and woman in His image, individuals who understood their value as a son and daughter of God. With the entrance of sin came guilt, fear, worry, failure and low self esteem. We will explore the issue of low self esteem and see how we are the apple of His eye!

For many years Angel and Cherie have both participated in and conducted small groups. They have a passion for connecting people to God and believe small groups have the power to change lives. This very practical seminar will give you tools to start a small group. While honestly sharing what has and hasn’t worked, there will be an emphasis on how being a leader of a small group can change your walk with God.