Our goal is that we would all experience God’s presence as we walk the path to wholeness, together.
Registration for our 2024/2025 cohorts is open! This year-long journey will allow you to walk in community with like-minded women who are pursuing the love of God.
We can only run on empty for so long.
If you are in need for refreshing and renewal, now is the time to tend to your soul and allow God to speak love over you.
Many women have access to strong, biblical teaching and small group prayer. But do we know how to live in God’s loving presence daily and to let that inward filling move us into outward serving? We serve without tending to our souls. How can gifts of the spirit bear fruit of the Spirit without deep communion with God?
Refuge for Strength is both an in-person retreat and a year-long cohort where we experience God’s presence in community on our path to wholeness.
Discover God’s goodness in your story
Heal into wholeness
Listen in community
Join a 2024/2025 Listening Cohort
Cohorts begin in September 2024 and run through May 2025. Virtual and in-person cohorts are available.
Curriculum: Women of the New Testament
This year, each gathering will include focusing on a spiritual practice. These include: spiritual friendship, silence and solitude, imaginative prayer, lectio divina, lament, gratitude, examen, and rule of life. Our hope is to create a sacred space where we can experience P.E.A.C.E. together.
Presence - intentionally being fully present to one another as God is present with us.
Empathetic Listening - listening with our hearts as well as our minds.
Attentiveness to the Spirit - paying attention to the movement of the Spirit or to the wise and loving voice of God in our lives.
Curiosity and Confidentiality - Asking curious questions without judgment or offering advice, holding our stories with confidentiality.
Encouragement - Encouraging one another to take practical steps towards freedom and wholeness and to live and love courageously.
Please email joycekoo@gmail.com if you'd like more information or to register for a group.
The cost is $40 for the year, which you can pay online under Make a Gift.
Join us for our upcoming Fall Worship Gathering!
Saturday, September 21, 2024
12:00 - 3:30 PM
Location: Riverwalk Grand Pavilion
912 Honorary Sindt Memorial Court
Naperville, IL 60540
Sign up to bring a dish or drink to share. But please come even if you can't bring anything! We will be meeting outside under a large pavilion, so bring a lawn chair. Feel free to invite friends!
"God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. The Lord Almighty is with us. 'Be still and know that I am God. I will be exalted in the earth.'" - Psalm 46:1,7,10
Need some encouragement today? Below are just a few of the talks given at our inaugural retreat.
Hearing Jesus’ Voice in the Chaos of Pain
Have you ever felt incapable of hearing God’s voice at times when you most needed to? In her talk at the 2022 retreat, Michele Phoenix shared lessons she learned from five decades of life about pain and trusting in God.
Finding the Goodness of God in Our Story
Do you feel as though your wounds will never be healed or that you will not be able to endure the next trauma? Sharing from a recent experience of loss, Laurie Nichols offers five ways God uniquely shows up in times of trauma and pain.
