Rooming for your “Problem Child”

The retreat registration card for our retreats gives room for women to designate their preferred roommate.  We have addressed the further issues that are faced when women will share a bed in a “four-per-room” option here.  As much as possible, we ask women to designate their roommates to make retreat room assignments as easy as possible.

However, on rare occasions, we end up with individual who, for one reason or another, is unable to come up with a roommate to list on her registration card.  Possibly she is new to the church and doesn’t know the other women, or the women they do know have already designated their roommate preference.  Possibly she is just one of those difficult people.

Look for those special women in your women’s ministry–those who are  mature in the Lord, tolerant, full of grace, and who love to reach out to women and minister to them.  Ask these ladies to prayerfully consider being available to be a roommate at the retreat for one of these new or hard-to-place women.