We had a wonderful New Year's Retreat! Great Devotions by Bryan, Summer and Peter, fun games and a snowman craft! We ended 2023 and entered 2024 with a time of prayer. What a blessing.

We had a wonderful group of ladies brave the ice and snow this last weekend to attend our Crafting Retreat. Becky, Julie and Abigail shared the devotions and God spoke in powerful ways to the ladies. They were blessed and encouraged. Praise God!

Lots of crafts were accomplished; scrapbooking, cross stitching, drawing, painting, crocheting and more. We even had some group games in the evenings! Lots of laughter and encouraging fellowship!

Like most people we had about a week of snow and then freezing rain. It was beautiful, crisp, cold and very slippery. Our maintenance guys put a lot of extra work into making the roads and pathways safe for our guests to walk and drive on.

The staff and the staff kiddos enjoyed the ice and snow! Building snowmen, throwing sheets of ice off the Main Lodge deck, taking hikes in the ice, sipping coffee while enjoying the view out the window and sledding. We enjoyed it while it was here but we are also glad to have it melting as it was very slippery!

We are also thankful that the power only went out for a couple of hours and then was back on again!

We would appreciate your prayers for Julie. During the ice storm she fell and broke her left wrist. She will be having surgery on Wednesday the 24th.

Please join us in praying that:

• Her pain would decrease
• The surgery would go well
• Her wrist will heal quickly and thoroughly

We appreciate your prayers for Julie and her quick recovery! We love her so much and want her all better. Thank you!

December brought with it the greatly anticipated new mattresses for Good Shepherd Lodge!

All of the old mattresses were hauled away and the new mattresses and new sheets were put into place. All of our guests are enjoying the comfort of the new mattresses. We are excited to eventually replace all the mattresses in the buildings and Good Shepherd was a great place to start!

Single Young Adult's Retreat

April 5th-7th

Come spend time with likeminded young adults who love the Lord. We will have times of worship, prayer and teaching as well as free time to hang out at the Lamppost (the Coffee Shop), fellowship, play board games, ride the zipline or hike Silver Falls. We are really excited about this time for young adults to be able to gather, meet new people, encourage each other and be refreshed in their walk with the Lord. This retreat is specially designed for single young adults, 18-30ish years of age.