08/20/2026
Join us at the Flathead Lutheran Bible Camp Women’s Retreat, Sept 11-13, as we explore the theme, “As You Love Yourself: Recovering the Missing Half of the Greatest Commandment.” Guest speakers Cali Salmond (Life and Health Coach) and Dr. Erin Richer (Certified Spiritual Director) will help us unpack how we can better serve our neighbors when we ourselves are cared for. This weekend is about taking time to learn, create, and care for ourselves and one another in a setting that allows us to rest and rejuvenate. Cost $250, includes housing, meals, snacks, beverages, etc. Register by Sept. 4 @ www.flbc.net
About this year’s theme:
When you forget an important appointment, disappoint someone you love, or realize you have fallen short—what does the voice inside you say?
When a friendship begins to slip away, when you sense rejection or betrayal, when someone chooses distance instead of closeness—what story do you tell yourself about who you are?
These questions matter.
Jesus tells us to love our neighbors as ourselves.
Have you ever stopped to ask:
Would my neighbor want to be loved the way I love myself?
Would the voice that perhaps judges our own mistakes, questions our worth, and logs the ways we could have done more be good news if we turned it toward someone else?
Many of us learned to begin the Christian story with Genesis 3: our sinfulness, our failure, our need to be rescued. And without realizing it, the way we learned to see ourselves became the way we learned to see other people, too.
But what if we begin our spiritual narrative somewhere else?
What if we learn to see ourselves and one another as beloved? As people bearing the image of God, worthy of compassion and tenderness even in our most deeply human and broken places?
At this year’s Women’s Retreat, we’ll explore what it might mean for Jesus’ invitation to love your neighbor as yourself to actually be good news—for your neighbor…and for you.
