Church Team Mobilization Guide

​​THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST IN BRINGING A TEAM TO SERVE WITH LIGHTHOUSE FAMILY RETREAT!

 

 

MISSION TEAMS | Serving at a Lighthouse retreat provides individuals and families (children 4+) an opportunity to serve and share the hope of Jesus with families walking through childhood cancer. 

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LOGISTICS | Lighthouse provides all logistics, lodging, food, retreat programming, and pre-retreat training and fundraising resources. We also offer an online registration and fundraising system that we provide at no additional cost. Our goal is to take care of as many details of mobilizing people as possible, so the team leader can focus on recruiting and preparing their team.

 

COST | Teams raise support for all retreat costs; including team expenses as well as expenses of retreat guest families living with childhood cancer. This includes all lodging, meals, drinks, team leadership, training resources for volunteers and retreat families, supplies for serving retreat families, program costs, and T-shirts for all participants.

 

Please Note:  It does not include travel expenses to and from the retreat, 2 on-your-own meals during the retreat, and background checks for all adults (18+) on retreat.  

 

FUNDRAISING MINIMUMS

• These are the minimum amounts that must be raised or personally provided to attend the retreat.

  • Weeklong retreat minimum: $1700 per adult, $500 per child (17 and under)

  • Weekend retreat minimum: $750 per adult, $325 per child (17 and under)

 

FUNDRAISING GOALS​ | On average, the minimums raised leave a $20,000 gap in the cost of each retreat. We know everyone’s fundraising capacity is different. Therefore, we invite the individuals on your team and/or the church to help us bridge this gap by setting a goal above your minimum. This helps make it possible for us to continue serving all families living through childhood cancer on retreat at no cost to them. (Suggested amount - $500 - $1,000 or more above your minimum to help us bridge the gap). 

 

DEPOSIT | $250 per family/individual reserves your group space on the retreat

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TEAM LEADERS | We ask each group to have a team leader from the church to be the point person for recruiting, training the team, and communicating with Lighthouse staff. Lighthouse will provide retreat leadership to help with pre-retreat training and lead on-site during the retreat.​

 

RESOURCES

• Team recruiting packet (video, FAQ, info meeting agenda and more)

• Team training resources (leader and participant training manuals and videos that

  cover mission and vision, packing list, and more)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interested in Mobilizing a Team?

Please contact our team at partner@lighthousefamilyretreat.org