Here’s what we do with your donations:

  • We keep the cost of our retreats affordable. The registration fees do not cover all of our costs. We don’t want expense to be the reason that someone doesn’t attend.
  • We basically pay the travel and retreat expenses of all of our speakers and helpers and, when we can, we give our guest speakers a little extra.
  • We use donations to build and maintain our website.

Here is what we would do with more money:

  • Ministry Internships
  • Summer Study Program
  • Purchase of selected books for our attendees
  • Support Poiema International — take young adults on retreats to other countries to be immersed in the work of Christ in other parts of the world.
  • Compensate writers, composers, lecturers, artists, organizers, and techies to help us in this ministry.

If you’d like, we have a monthly donor program that if you sign up (for whatever amount) we will send you one of our coffee mugs as a token of our thanks and as a reminder to pray for the ministry as partners with us.

You should know that Poiema Retreats is a ministry of Saint Peter Presbyterian Church in Bristol, Virginia. All registrations and donations are received by our church treasurer and overseen by our diaconate.