Christian Women's Retreat

Located in the Sierra foothills, Leoni Meadows is the setting of one of our California Seventh-Day Adventist owned and operated campground and conference centers. On two consecutive week-ends in early October, several hundred women gather here to attend the northern California Christian Women’s Retreat. There are special guest speakers and musicians to encourage and inspire, workshops, a nature center and observatory, a museum, a small train, and new this year, a hay wagon pulled by large draft horses. There are also miles of nature trails for hiking/running. Saturday night is “game night,” a definite favorite, since it seems in our hectic world there is so little time for that kind of table-top recreation, with T.V., videos, and computers, etc. competing for our attention. I have had the blessing of attending for the past 20 years.
Now it’s an annual tradition for my daughters and I (when their schedules allow). We begin Friday morning early with breakfast in Nevada City, a quaint, charming, old gold rush town in the Sierra foothills. After breakfast, we stroll the streets and browse in all the cute little touristy shops until mid afternoon, when it’s time to leave for Leoni Meadows. We usually arrive just in time to check in, hug friends we haven’t seen for a year, and have a delicious and welcome hot supper prepared by the superb kitchen/cafeteria staff!! Then it’s off to the first meeting, to bring in the Sabbath hours by singing praises together and listening to the guest speaker’s Friday evening message.