Big Spruce Women’s Retreat: August 15-17, 2025 Women's Retreat Registration
“The Mite of a Woman”
We will gather at the Big Spruce Campground in Cedaredge, CO for a fun weekend of fellowship with a focus on exploring the giftedness of the group – finding our gifts, honoring our gifts and sharing our gifts. The scripture of focus will be Luke 21: 1-4, the story of the Widow’s Mite.
Friday, August 15, 2025 – Registration begins at 3:00 p.m.
Sunday, August 17, 2025 – Retreat ends 1:00 p.m.
Registration Fee:
Register by July 1, 2025 – $55.00
Late Registration – $65.00
*Scholarships Available (email to inquire: information@cofchristrm.org)
Opportunity to Serve
A portion of the retreat which will involve us getting to know each other and share our knowledge, gifts, talents, and interests with each other. We are inviting you to bring things that you would like to share with our little group. This can be any skill or knowledge which others may want to learn or might inspire them to consider their own gifts in a new light. We will be doing this as an open forum allowing participants to select the workshops or displays they want to see. We are suggesting about 20 to 30 minutes. We are not expecting you to teach anything to mastery, but give us an introduction to what you do and how you use it.
Examples:
Knitting, crocheting, quilting, etc.
Photography, painting, drawing
Calligraphy, jewelry making, pottery
Cooking, canning, preserving food
Gardening, floral arrangement, etc.
Computer skills
Organization
Public speaking
Sharing what you do to be of service or a source of strength in your community.
Basically, this can be anything that you have a desire to share or you think might be helpful or interesting to others. If you are interested in sharing, please email Jane Nelms with the information. Please provide a brief description of what you would like to share and what your ideas are about how you would like to do that (demonstrate, interactive, display, etc.).
Opportunity to Create
Wind Chimes: One of our activities will incorporate making something beautiful out of what we might think of as junk. We have a plenty of supplies, but you can bring things to add to give your creation special meaning.
Examples:
Beads, buttons, crystals, jewelry supplies, jewelry tools
Broken jewelry or old jewelry (do you have odd earrings that have lost their mate)
Sentimental items like old dog tags, keys, key chains, charms, etc.
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The Big Spruce Campground is 3.5 miles north of Cedaredge, CO on Hwy 65, then 1.7 miles east on Ute Road, is 7,200 feet above sea level on the south side of the Grand Mesa, with rural residential property all around. Ute Trail Road is asphalt to our entrance. Approximately 20 from the Grand Mesa, fishing, horseback riding and many hiking trails are nearby.
Our kitchen/dining hall, restrooms with showers and our open sided chapel are centrally located. For this retreat, we will primarily use our 12’x12′ rooms designed for two to three people on the lower bunks, but if we have more people, we will also use our 12’x24′ dorms. Rooms will be assigned according to special needs and early registrants first.
There are 8 camper spaces with full utility hook-ups and several locations for tents and self-contained units. Camper spaces with full hook-ups can be reserved, other spaces are by first arrival choice.
We request that all campers who will be joining us this season bring their own bedding, towels, and a jacket or sweater. The nights can be cool in the Colorado mountains, even in the summer!
Questions:
Call / Text: Jane Nelms (970) 314-1049
E-mail: jnelms259@gmail.com
Big Spruce Campground
24862 Ute Trail Rd.
Cedaredge, CO 81413
