We’ve talked about praying before your event, but what about praying at your event?
Today I want to share some ideas about setting up a Prayer Room at your retreat.
Not every retreat I’ve been on has had a Prayer Room.
But when there’s been one, it has been used by both our women and our team.
Ideally, your Prayer Room (or space) will be:
- Peaceful
- Separate
- Available
At one retreat we were able to utilize a meeting space near our main room for the entire weekend. It was open early in the morning until late at night.
You may have to be more creative depending upon your retreat location. Perhaps you can find a couple of chairs in a quiet corner of your rental house.
What to put in your Prayer Room:
- Tables and chairs for sitting
- Bibles for praying
- Cd player to play instrumental hymns in the background
- Minimal lighting – but enough to see and to write
- Prayer Request box with paper and pens
- Prayer Cards (see My Favorite Prayer Cards and 8 Ways to Use Them)
- Tracts or booklets with the message of salvation
- Cushions for sitting on the floor and for kneeling on
You might want your decorations team to add some minimal décor to enhance the mood.
In the past, our Prayer Team committed to meeting several times during the weekend to pray over the prayer requests that had been put in the box. We were humbled by the requests in the box. We made it known to our ladies that we’d be praying and there were always new requests in the box. Don’t commit to it, unless your team is able.
If space is at a minimum and you are unable to provide a dedicated space for prayer, consider setting up prayer stations during your retreat and/or placing a prayer request box in your meeting space.
Your women have a lot of stuff going on and desperately want and need your prayers.
Please note: The photo at the top of the post is of the prayer room in the chapel at The Cove (Billy Graham Training Center). Unfortunately, I do not have any photos of our prayer room to share. Please don’t think I’m setting the bar that high!
You may also want to read:
Prayer Station Ideas for Your Retreat
Women’s Ministry Prayer Resources
Thank you so much for all the information that you are so willingly sharing with us all! For the past two years I have coordinated a retreat for our life group and now I am coordinating a retreat that will be open to all the women at our church. This site has been very helpful! I pray the Lord bless you abundantly and may He continue to pour into you as you pour into others, in Jesus Christ name!
Thank you, Carla! I greatly appreciate your kind and encouraging words. Praying the Lord will bless each woman who attends your retreat! <3
Hi, my name is Naomi, and I am on the planning team for our retreat. This website is very encouraging. So are the comments. This will be our third retreat, and we want a warm, welcoming, and effective, prayer room. Thank you fir this sites, ideas and comments.
Naomi, thank you for your comments. I am so glad you found some ideas for the prayer room for your next retreat. I pray it will be a blessing to all who enter!
This is truly awesome. We desire to official dedicate a room at your church and convert it into a prayer room for one our Deacons who recently passed. Question. Love the prayer circle arrangement in the photo above with the pillows and kneeling rail. Where can we purchase something similar?
Hey Tiffany, what a wonderful idea and tribute…That photo was of the prayer room at the Billy Graham Training Center. I believe they had it custom built. Maybe one of the gifted men or women of your church could recreate it.
Cyndee, I have been so blessed by your retreat planning posts- I have attended a few women’s retreats, but am now heading up plans for a first time women’s retreat in our fellowship in May 2016, wanted you to know God’s timing is amazing, it is no accident that you chose to post these valuable ideas for such a time as this!! To God be the Glory, Melanie
Oh Melanie, thank you!! I am so glad you’re finding these posts helpful! Please let me know if there’s something I don’t cover. Please let me know too, if you have any questions about anything. Praying for you and your team as you make plans for your retreat! So excited for you!!
Do u have any pictures of the decor you used for the area
Charlene, unfortunately, I don’t. I do remember that we kept it very simple. Creating quiet and comfy spaces to pray was our focus.