Leader's Retreat Guide - Fill Your Cup

This guide could be a vaulable resource for retreat planning IF you have access to the Cafe Journal. Unfortunately, once I received the guide and read through it, the journals were no longer available for purchase. I will still use the theme, Fill Your Cup, but now I have to prepare the Bible sessions from scratch. :(

We used Fill Your Cup for our 2022 annual women's retreat. In order to prepare for this retreat you'll need both the leader's guide and a participant journal--the journal sessions themselves aren't in the leader's guide. We had one woman enhance the introductory material from a session introduction with her own words and present it to the entire group. Then we broke into our small groups to do the session discussion and Bible study. The group felt that the Bible references were substantial and much more abundant than materials we had used in the past. Overall, we rated it an excellent study and small group retreat.

When I was going through this Leader's guide pages, the main content of the guide was for a big event planning for activities/entertainment related. When I finally got to the devotional sessions, there was no bible study preparation for leading each session, only a "discussion" page to make questions to the participants and activities.

I've been always satisfied with the other products I've purchased with CTA, but I was very disappointed with this guide's contents. While this guide may be helpful with organizing/preparing an event per se, there was no focus on the study of God's word through the study sessions and growing spiritually with the devotionals presented by the leader.

I only needed a study outline product for the leader's preparation for the bible study and this guide was the only option available, so I assumed it would have a complete guide but now I wasted money and still need to come up with the study outline for the sessions on my own...