Women's Retreat | Women's Ministries

Women's & Young Women's Virtual Spring Retreat 2022

"Worship - Worry into Worship, Waiting into Worship, and Winter into Worship"

We sing not because of the worry, the waiting, or the winter, but because we trust first that God will bring beauty from ashes, and second, there is a day coming when there will be no more tears. Habakkuk 3:17-19 NIV. 

Key Verse: "Worship the Lord with gladness. Come before Him singing with joy." - Psalm 100:2 NLT

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Individual presentations

Cathie Hartman — "God Said Go"

Heidi Jones — "Walking Through Shadows"

Lindsey Haffner — "Waiting Into Worship"

Lindsey Haffner — "Worry Into Worship"

Lindsey Haffner — "Winter Into Worship"

Makena Horton — "Think Before You Post"

Sheryl Janke — "Share Your Care"

Featuring

Lindsey Haffner — Keynote Speaker

Lindsey Haffner is a youth pastor in Redlands, California. She enjoys running, reading, and board game marathons. She loves being able to facilitate opportunities for students to meet Jesus and thinks she has the best job in the world! 

Cathie Hartman — Special Feature

Cathie Hartman is an educator at Upper Columbia Conference who lives in Orofino, Idaho. She will be sharing some exciting stories of how God continues to work in the far-away lands of Mongolia and China. Cathie lived in Asia from 1991-1997 with Adventist Frontier Missions and 2005-2017 with Uplifting Him Ministries. She and her husband Curtis are proud of their three grown daughters.

Makena Horton — Special Feature

Makena Horton is communications coordinator for Upper Columbia Conference. She graduated from Walla Walla University with a bachelor's degree in strategic communication. She has a passion for photography and is active in social media.

Sheryl Janke — Special Feature

Sheryl loves creating and sharing with others. She loves to help others to learn hobby skills and these days there is a little more time for that since her retirement from careers in orthopedic nursing and work at Upper Columbia Conference. Her “retirement job” is currently the events coordinator for women’s ministries for UCC, and she creates for her cottage business as well.

She and her husband are parents to a son and a daughter and grandparents to five grandchildren, all of whom they treasure and love spending time with whenever possible. Other interests are camping, hiking, traveling, gardening, knitting, crocheting, card making, quilting and her dog, Bear. 

Heidi Jones — Special Feature

Heidi Jones is a hospice chaplain for Logan Health Hospice in Kalispell, Montana. She received her master's in divinity from Andrews University and has spent her career helping others deal with grief and end of life care. She lives in Spokane with her husband, Dustin, and two young boys.

Roxane Digman Nkomo — Musical Feature

Roxane is a singing missionary and an entrepreneur. She is first-soprano of the London Adventist Chorale since 2012 until present. Roxane is passionate about traveling, gardening, nature and playing volleyball. She and her husband, Bheki, reside in in York, England, and they both are passionate for the Lord and serve Him in multiple ministries in their local church. Roxane also served as a SULAD (Socio-economic Uplift, Literacy, Anthropological, and Developments) missionary in the Philippines from 2003 – 2005.