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Purpose-Led Discipleship · Restored: A Gentle Afternoon of Truth, Healing, and Hope

A linked Sunday afternoon retreat schedule.

This is one adaptable planning example. Change the day, starting time, refreshments, and breaks to fit your setting while keeping the three movements in order and protecting the quiet response and timely release. The contained gathering helps participants name what they are carrying, let truth enter the story, release one burden to Christ, and leave with one faithful next step.

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12:45 PM arrival · 1:00–4:00 PM retreat

Restored: A Gentle Afternoon of Truth, Healing, and Hope

This is one adaptable planning example. Change the day, starting time, refreshments, and breaks to fit your setting while keeping the three movements in order and protecting the quiet response and timely release. The contained gathering helps participants name what they are carrying, let truth enter the story, release one burden to Christ, and leave with one faithful next step.

Highlighted entries open the matching place in the Participant Workbook.

Sunday afternoon

Truth, healing, hope, and one faithful next step

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Retreat schedule

  1. Arrival, refreshments, and seatingSettle in without being asked to perform or explain.
  2. Welcome, retreat foundation, and opening prayerOpen workbook Begin with safety, truth, and a clear understanding of restoration.
  3. Movement One: Name What You Are CarryingOpen workbook Give honest language to grief, guilt, shame, fear, responsibility, or control.
  4. Short breakRefill a drink, move, breathe, or step into a quieter space.
  5. Movement Two: Let Truth Correct the StoryOpen workbook Notice conclusions formed in wounded places and receive truth without denying what happened.
  6. Short breakPause before moving from recognition into release.
  7. Movement Three: Release What Is Not Yours to CarryOpen workbook Name one burden, one truth, and one realistic next step.
  8. The gospel and a quiet responseOpen workbook Hear clearly what Christ has done and respond without pressure.
  9. Blessing and releaseLeave the outcome with God and return to ordinary life.

Protect the final twenty minutes. If an earlier conversation runs long, shorten optional sharing instead of rushing the gospel, assurance, blessing, or release.