Dear Friend,

Welcome to a wonderful journey to healing and freedom!  Deeper Still Northern Indiana is a healing retreat specifically designed for women and men who have either had an abortion or who have participated in an abortion.  We affirm and encourage your decision to seek a deeper place of healing and restoration from your past choices. Our role is to help facilitate God’s healing touch in your life.

This is an opportunity for you to get away with God, and to receive His healing love.  There will be other women and men on a similar journey joining you this weekend. The ladies and men that serve on our Ministry Team are hand-picked and trained by us. Our women team members only minister to our women participants and our men team members only minister to our men participants. We can assure you that you can trust them all to be sensitive to the leading of the Lord, your needs, and your confidentiality.

When we receive your Release Form and Intake Form we will confirm your registration by sending you a confirmation packet. There is no registration fee for this retreat. Because our retreats fill up fast, we ask you to send in your registration forms ASAP. We will always maintain a waiting list in case we have cancellations. The confirmation packet will contain detailed information about the retreat location and what you should bring. Our retreats are held at Mahseh Center in Kewanna, Indiana. Directions are available if needed.

After we have sent out your confirmation letter and within 1-2 weeks of the retreat, we will call you to touch base and answer any of your questions.

With great expectation of His mercy and love,

Lisa Davis Director, Deeper Still Northern Indiana

The intake form will take some time and thought to complete. You may find that some "old" emotions and memories surface as you fill it out. This is normal so do not be discouraged, but rather press through. These are simply indicators of places that may still need a healing touch.

If yes, we recommendthat you tell your counselor you will be attending this retreat. If you would like us to share information about our retreat with your counselor, we would be happy to do so. 

Deeper Still​®  

Participant Release Agreement

 

Deeper Still is a program including healing retreats for women and men who have undergone or participated in an abortion procedure (the “Program”).  The Program is specifically designed to address the healing of emotional and spiritual wounds associated with abortion.  

Deeper Still retreats are hosted by a team of volunteers (“Team Members”) who have received para-professional training to assist attendees in the healing process within the context of the Program. Participation by attendees in Deeper Still retreats or any associated function(s) is not intended as a substitute for professional counseling and/or medical treatment. 

By signing this agreement form, I freely and voluntarily agree with and understand the following statements to be true and I hereby agree to bind myself to such statements in consideration for the opportunity to participate as an attendee of an upcoming Deeper Still retreat.

 

●       The Team Members are volunteers and not licensed professional counselors. 

●       The Team Members are not giving medical advice, making diagnoses, or providing licensed professional counseling.

●       I will not hold Deeper Still, the Team Members, or other persons or entities directly associated with Deeper Still responsible for my actions or the actions of others made in response to any teaching, advice, ministry or any other goods and/or services I may obtain at a Deeper Still function.

●       I fully release Deeper Still, the Team Members and/or persons/entities directly associated with them from any and all liability whatsoever.

●       I assume full personal responsibility for any financial obligation I undertake based on and/or in response to any teaching, advice, ministry or any other goods and/or services I may obtain at a Deeper Still function.

●       Information I give to any Team Member will remain confidential.  However, I also understand exceptions to such confidentiality include:

o   any situation in which I communicate I am considering physically harming myself or another person, 

o   any situation in which I communicate another person is continuing to or has expressed his/her intent to physically harm me, and/or

o   any situation in which a formal grievance is brought against Deeper Still, the Team Members and/or persons/entities directly associated with them.

●       Any formal grievance brought against Deeper Still, the Team Members and/or persons/entities directly associated with them are to be decided under Indiana law and, if litigation ensues, in Indiana courts of law—the state and federal courts in which are deemed a proper venue by the undersigned for any such action—wherein such courts, based on this agreement, shall have personal jurisdiction over the undersigned. 

●       If any part of this agreement is deemed void by a court of law, the other portions of the agreement will remain in full force and effect.

The Retreat Advantage
 

Our heavenly Father is full of mercy, grace and compassion.  He longs to see the wounded and grief-stricken healed and set free from their captivity.  The Bible teaches in Isaiah 61:1-3 that God has anointed us, His people, to bring good news to the afflicted, to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and to bring freedom to the prisoners.  Further it says that we are to comfort all who mourn, to give a garland of beauty instead of ashes, to anoint with the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and to place a mantle of praise where there has been a spirit of fainting.  

This scripture is the backdrop for our Deeper Still retreats.  

 

God can bring healing to people in a variety of ways, but we have found that a retreat setting is the most conducive venue to help us go to deep. God can do a quick work if He is allowed to do a deep work.

 

●    You get away from familiar routines & responsibilities for a whole weekend.

●    You can stay focused on the necessary healing tasks without disengaging.

●    You join a small community of people on a similar journey.

●    You can relax in a beautiful and comfortable setting.

●    You experience a Christ-centered spiritual make-over.

●    You are part of a safe and confidential community.

●    You are well fed from God’s word.

●    You are well fed from the wonderful food we serve.

●    You receive deeper levels of healing and freedom.

●    Your destiny in God is re-ignited.

●    You go home a different person than when you came. 

●    There is no financial fee to attend this retreat.

 

So, what’s not to love? 

If you’re ready for one of the most eternally significant weekends of your life, please join us.

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

                                               Retreat FAQ’s

 

•     Our retreats run from Friday afternoon until Sunday afternoon.  If you are flying in or driving more than 6 hours, we suggest you plan to arrive on Thursday and stay the night at a hotel or one of our hosting family homes. We can arrange transportation from the airport, or you can rent a car if desired.

 

•    Our Retreat Center is an hour and a half drive from the Fort Wayne airport.

 

•    Fort Wayne, Indiana is approximately 1 ½  hours from Indianapolis, 3 hours from Chicago, 2 ½ hours from Detroit and 1 ½ hours from Toledo. Fort Wayne is on Eastern Standard Time.

 

•    We can accommodate about 10 participants per retreat. We cannot accommodate any friends or family members.

 

•    There is no registration fee to attend this retreat

 

                                             Retreat Description

Friday afternoon:​ The retreat starts with a welcome, introductions, and some opening remarks to set a framework and expectations for the weekend.  Next, we spend some time in singing and worship.  This invites God’s presence and His peace.  It also prepares our hearts to be knit together. 

 

Friday evening:​ This evening is spent in sharing our stories.  This is a critical first step in the healing process.  For many of you this may be the first time you will have ever openly shared your story.  Some of our team members will also share a brief story from their life. Some team members have had abortions and others have not, but we all have a story of a healing journey. We believe it’s important for us as team members to be vulnerable and transparent with you, even as we are asking you to do the same. 

 

Saturday morning:​ We start the morning with worship, and then we do a teaching called - The Perfect Sacrifice.  It is primarily taken from Isaiah 53, and covers the atoning work of Jesus Christ on the cross.  After the teaching, a team member will lead you through a time of prayer addressing forgiveness and reconciliation.

 

Saturday afternoon:​ Redemptive grieving is a necessary step in the healing process. We address this issue and offer you tangible ways to connect with your lost child (ren).  This gesture brings a redemptive action to your grief. Next, we affirm the vital role of motherhood and fatherhood.  Abortion damages the heart of a mother and a father.  Only as your mother’s heart or father’s heart is spiritually reconciled to your lost child (ren) can you be free to embrace your calling to mother or father from a healthy heart. We refer to this calling as the “Mother Mantle” and the “Father Mantle”.  We affirm this healing step with a powerful symbol as well.

Next, we address taking responsibility for the consequences of abortion that can affect our living children, our cities, our churches, and our land.  Then, we pray with you to break the common spiritual strongholds that can be erected in our lives as a result of sin and poor choices.  Next is an opportunity for personal prayer ministry, or free time.

 

Saturday evening:​ After dinner, we do some sharing from the day. Then we spend the rest of the evening in “crying out” for the restoration of the many areas of your life where you have lost hope, passion and vision.  We combine our prayers with worship, and celebration of the work God has done. By this time, joy begins to spring forth. 

 

Sunday morning:​  We end the weekend with a beautiful memorial service, communion and brunch.

 

For the next 2-3 weeks following the retreat, we initiate an email chat to help you continue to process your experiences.  Then 6 weeks out after the retreat we have a reunion dinner so that we can reconnect and share what has happened in your life since the retreat.

 

                                              Deeper Still Retreat Schedule

 

Friday 

  2:00 - 3:00 pm     Check-in (please try to arrive between 2-2:30 pm)

  3:00 - 3:45           Welcome & Opening Remarks

  3:45 - 4:45           Why We Worship

  4:45 - 5:00           Break

  5:00 - 6:00           Dinner

  6:00 - 6:30           Why We Share Our Stories

  6:30 - Finished      Sharing Your Story

 

Saturday

  7:45 - 8:15           Breakfast

  8:30 - 9:00           Overview of the day

  9:00 - 9:30           Worship

  9:30 - 9:40           Break

  9:40 – 10:10        The Perfect Plan   

10:10 - 12:00         The Perfect Sacrifice

12:00 - 12:40          Lunch

 12:45 - 1:45          Grieving & Reconciliation

  1:45 - 2:45           The Mother Mantle, The Father Mantle

  2:45 - 3:45           Individual and Cultural Responsibility

  3:45 - 6:30           Breaking Strongholds & Soul Ties/

                              Listening Prayer and Free Time

  6:30 - 7:25           Dinner

  7:30 - 8:00           Reflections from the Day

  8:00 - 10:00         Crying Out for Restoration                           

 

Sunday 

  8:30 - 10:30         Memorial Service

10:30 - 11:00         Pack up

11:00 - 12:00         Brunch

12:00                     Shalom & Go Home

 

*This schedule is subject to change.