Funding
We appreciate your financial help.

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.