Rachel's Vineyard Spring Retreat

Rachel’s Vineyard is a weekend retreat for women and men who struggle with the emotional and spiritual pain of abortion and seek healing and peace. It is open to women and men, married couples, mothers, fathers, grandparents, and siblings of aborted children as well as those who have worked in the abortion industry. In a nurturing emotionally safe environment the retreatants can openly grieve their lost children and address all the ways they have been affected by abortion. Pain and suffering is transformed through a spiritual process using rituals, meditations, and a memorial service to honor and acknowledge their lost children, to surrender them to the loving care of God, and replace their sorrow and regret with acceptance, hope, and peace.  

The retreat is presented from the Catholic tradition and the team includes a Catholic priest, a therapist, and others who have found healing from the retreat experience. It is…