51st Annual Women's Retreat at Lake Aurora

April 4-5, 2025
April 5-6, 2025

2025 Theme: "Created"

Keynote Speaker: Kelly Brinkmann

Worship Team: Dade City Christian Worship Team

Online Registration: Opens February 14 at 8 am

Designed to encourage and challenge women of all ages, stages of life, and Christian experience. Women are invited to gather for a time of refreshment, reflection, and spiritual growth at Lake Aurora’s Women’s Retreats.

Please note this event fills very quickly. Use online registration for real time availability. Deposit required including waitlist reservation. Group Registrations have cancellation fees for unnamed anonymous registrations by March 4.

While there will be an abundance of programmed opportunities you are encouraged to take time to experience whatever will replenish your body, mind, & spirit. However you choose to spend the retreat days, may you be encouraged.

We realize mothers with babies and small children would benefit from attending the retreat. However, we do not have facilities to care for participants' children and it is best they do not attend.

Want a sneak peek? Click below.
Click here - 2025 Participant Program Book

DIRECTIONS

Cost per retreat with on-campus lodging: $95
($50 deposit per retreat)
Cost per retreat with Off-campus lodging: $65

To stay Friday through Sunday, sign up for Retreat I AND Retreat II.
($100 Deposit total for Friday-Sunday)

Part-time Rates:
$45 for Saturday (8 am-2:30 pm)
$65 Entire Saturday (8 am - 10 pm)

Online Registration - Open February 14, 2025 at 8 am

Please register online or mail registration, or email, Attention Emmalee.

Send the ticket fee or deposit to Lake Aurora's office
Waiting list based on date deposit received in office.

2025 Workshops being developed. Subject to change

Bible Study Romans 9 - Sherri Stiles
For the Next Season - Jill McGaffigan
For His Glory - Kellie Spencer
Be still and listen - Pam Davidson
To Trust - Jenni Wood
For What -
To Witness -
Creative Craft Options at an additional cost of $7 each.

Play & Relaxation Sessions May Include:

Foot Soak
Vase Painting
Clay with pressed flowers
Leather Crafts
Relaxed Breathing Exercises
40ft Canopy High Ropes Adventure
Double Zipline Adventure
Giant Swing

Important Times:

4:00pm - Check in begins
6:00pm - Dinner
Keynote sessions in the Oak Hammock Building with open garage door options
2:30pm, second day - Program ends.

About Kelly Brinkman

Kelly comes to us highly recommended and will take us in a unique direction to connect Biblical principles to tangible lessons that reveal not just the characteristics of Christ, but how to abide with Him in daily life.

Kelly Brinkmann is a working artist and writer. She came to faith in Jesus in her teen years and by connecting her faith to art making, she continues to learn how to reclaim every part of her heart to align with God’s best design. Often drawing on illustrations and analogies, her writing and spoken messages invite women to know Jesus and experience God at work in their daily lives.

Kelly studied studio art in painting and earned her B.A., equipping her to use creative thinking and problem-solving in various nonprofit and corporate leadership positions.

She serves as a writer, public speaker, and creative instructor in her community at her studio, Art and Souls Creative Studio. She serves, learns, teaches, and mentors alongside women in her home church while starting her first term on the local school board in 2022. Her husband serves as judge in their county and they are raising their three school-aged children to love and know the Lord.

What to bring:

Sleeping bag or bed linens (bunk beds - only 10 lower beds per unit)
Blanket
Bible
Pillow
Towels
Toiletries
Lawn chair or camping chair (workshops have limited seating)

This is a camp, so dress is casual. Bring comfortable shoes and a jacket for possible chilly/rainy weather.

Other suggestions are notebook, camera, flashlight, insect repellant, lawn chair (workshops have limited seating) and rain gear. Some like to bring table games for late night laughs in the game room.

Please Note...

Keynote sessions will be in the new Oak Hammock building, but a lot of workshops are outdoors.
Housing (10 lower bunks per unit. Total 20 beds) Off-campus lodging (discounted rate) encouraged to accommodate more.
Self screening requested 3 days leading up to arrival (Temperature/Symptoms/Exposure) Refundable if sick.