Rachel’s Vineyard Retreat Information

June 11-13
Bethel Park
McCall, Idaho

What is a Rachel’s Vineyard Retreat?

It is a weekend to get away from daily pressures of work and family and focus on the painful issue of the loss of a child. It’s a time that provides an opportunity to deeply enter the grieving process to identify all the ways that abortion, miscarriage, stillborn and adoption may have affected the person. The retreat exercises help participants to accept forgiveness and to reconnect with their lost children on a spiritual level. Through many special psychological and spiritual exercises, participants will journey through their grief and experience God’s transforming power and healing in their lives.

Past Participants' Comments

“For 18 years I have been haunted with heavy guilt that no one could take away, tormented by thoughts of what my child would have been like. Through participating in Rachel’s Vineyard, I was finally able to forgive myself. I know that God has given me a peaceful mind, cleansed my heart, and has washed away my guilt.”

“Before this retreat I was spiritually dead. I was empty inside. I felt separated from the church and from God. After this retreat, I now feel alive, and happy to be alive. I feel the love of God inside me.”

“I was terrified to take the first step forward and participate in Rachel’s Vineyard. It seemed safer to remain hiding in the darkness, keeping the pain locked up deep inside rather than to risk exposing my shame to another soul. Now I am grateful to have experienced God’s healing and forgiveness with other women in an atmosphere of complete acceptance and trust. Rachel’s Vineyard has been a blessing to me.”

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