We’re almost all set for our retreat in Italy in a couple weeks, AND almost all moved out of our house, and ready to be homeless in Italy… yet again!

But… before we head to Italy, I wanted to take time to share with you about ALL our retreats coming up this year… and next, so you can prayerfully consider joining us at one of them!

Of course the retreat in Lake Como, Italy is about ready to happen, and you can follow along on IG @artandfaithcreative

BUT… the great news is that next years retreat registration will open very soon and you can join us right here next June 3-10, 2023!

Keep an eye out for an email with all the details BEFORE our retreat happens this year. This will give you time to look everything over, pray about joining us, and then be ready to sign up when it goes LIVE, right after this years retreat is over. We’re going to work on getting everything ready for registration the morning of June 11, but we’ll still be in Italy, so we will try our best to have everything up and running by 8am EST time.

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We’re also headed to France THIS year! September 3 - 11, 2022 we will be back in Paris, France for another Art & Faith Creative Retreat, where we will explore Paris and all the beauty it holds, as well as visiting this amazing site, Mont St. Michelle and some other famous places outside of Paris.

AND, we have ONE spot that just came available last week! (A dear friend had some remodeling on a new house come up, and she can’t make it any longer) So this is your chance to join us in Paris!! If you’ve been thinking about joining this trip and you’re interested in this spot, please let us know quickly as this is a last minute opportunity that won’t be around long! You can email us for the details and pricing.

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We also wanted to let you know that our Vail, Colorado retreat is going to be pushed back. With our move from this home, and being in Europe for 5 weeks, we have had to realize that the timing of the Vail retreat wasn’t going to work, and we apologize for that. We will be coming home to Colorado in mid July and needing to find a place to live, so we’ve decided to postpone that retreat until next year. We don’t have a set date yet, but will update everyone once we can get it on the calendar.

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We do however have a few more spots available for our Vermont Retreat, October 5-10, 2022! This retreat is such a special retreat, held right at the peak of the Fall Foliage season. Being born and raised in California, Vermont was somewhere my husband and I were intrigued about because it’s so different from where we grew up. We planned our whole honeymoon around a 2 week tour of New England during the change of colors and we especially fell in love with Woodstock, Vermont… almost 34 years ago! We’ve been coming back to this beautiful place ever since and in 2018 I was able to host our first Art & Faith Creative Retreat at the Woodstock Inn. This year, we’re doing things a little different and we’ve rented a gorgeous farmhouse, minutes from Woodstock, Vermont, where you’ll feel like you’ve stepped back in time to a quintessential New England home, complete with the barn and gardens to explore! Woodstock truly is one of the most beautiful towns in America, and we can’t wait to be back here with another group of women!

PLEASE NOTE: We’ve decided to close registration on the Vermont retreat June 1st, because we want to be able to plan and prepare for this retreat while we’re in Italy this summer, and we need to have a final count to the home owners of the farmhouse soon.

There are 3 - 4 spots left for this retreat (depending on if you want single or double occupancy) so let us know in the next week or so, if you plan to join us. All the details and registration are listed on the Creative Retreats page of our website. If you have any questions about this retreat, please feel free to email us and we will get back to you quickly, as we know time is of the essence here.

We’ve shared about our theme for 2022 in another post, but we will continue throughout this year with this theme:

“The Art of Sharing Your Story”

For 2023 we are still praying through the theme, and in fact we are praying about doing TWO retreats in Bellagio! One will delve deeper into this theme, but be focused more on writing: “The Art of Writing Your Story” and it will be a retreat with some authors who will come alongside us. The other one will be a more art filled retreat with an artist that will come along side us! More on that soon…

No matter what retreat you’d like to join us at we hope you’ll enjoy this time away to be refreshed in your faith, as you explore God’s beautiful creation with new friends, are inspired to share the story of what God is doing in your life, make memories that will last a lifetime… all while drawing closer to the Lord through Art & Faith!

Our Vermont retreat registration is HERE. For the ONE spot in our Paris retreat, you will need to email us via this newsletter or our website. And for the 2023 Italy retreat, that will be opening up on June 11 on our website, and we will send a newsletter with all the details to everyone on our email list.

Have a GREAT week everyone!

Hugs,

Laura McCollough