Dear Friend,

Welcome to a wonderful journey to healing and freedom!  Deeper Still Fallbrook is a healing retreat specifically designed for women who have had an abortion and men who have participated in abortion.  We affirm and encourage your decision to seek a deeper place of healing and restoration from the effects caused by abortion. Our role is to help facilitate God’s healing touch in your life.  The retreats are held in north San Diego County at a remote, private location, and there is no fee to attend the retreats.

The retreat is an opportunity for you to get apart with God, and to receive His healing love.  Our spring and fall retreats will be open to both women and men, and the summer retreat will be open to women only. The retreats will consist of a small group of about 10 to 15 participants.  For the coed retreats, the women and men will be together during the teaching sessions only and will be separated during times of sharing and ministry. Only our female team members will minister to our female participants and only male team members will minister to male participants.  The women and men that serve on our Ministry Team are handpicked and trained by us. 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 completed Participant Release Agreement and Confidential Intake Form, we will contact you.  If the retreat you selected is not full, you will be confirmed a spot.  If it is full, we will put you on the waiting list and then contact if a spot opens up). If you are confirmed for a retreat, you will receive a Confirmation Packet from us before the retreat.  This packet will contain detailed information about the retreat location and what you should bring.  We have been filling up quickly, so we recommend you send in your registration forms as soon as possible to secure a spot. 

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. After we have sent out your confirmation letter and within a couple of weeks before the retreat, we will contact you again you to touch base and answer any of your questions. 

This Deeper Still retreat can be a real milestone in your life.  God wants you to be healed, made whole, and set free to live the life He has for you. We count it a privilege to come along side you, and we will be praying that you receive everything you need. 

With great expectation of all the Lord has for you,

Karen Reynoso, Executive Director

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 Fallbrook 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 Fallbrook 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 Fallbrook 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 Fallbrook, the Team Members, or other persons or entities directly associated with Deeper Still Fallbrook 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 Fallbrook function.
• I fully release Deeper Still Fallbrook, 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 Fallbrook function.
• Information I give to any Team Member will remain confidential.  However, I also understand exceptions to such confidentiality include:
  • any situation in which I communicate I am considering physically harming myself or another person,
  • any situation in which I communicate another person is continuing to or has expressed his/her intent to physically harm me, and/or
  • any situation in which a formal grievance is brought against Deeper Still Fallbrook, the Team Members and/or persons/entities directly associated with them.
• Any formal grievance brought against Deeper Still Fallbrook, the Team Members and/or persons/entities directly associated with them are to be decided under California law and, if litigation ensues, in California courts of law in San Diego County--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 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.