PODCAST TRANSCRIPT | EPISODE 214: THE LAND OF MOTHERHOOD, PT 25
LIFE TO THE FULL w/ Nancy Campbell
EPISODE 214: THE LAND OF MOTHERHOOD, Part 25
“OUR CEILING SHOULD BE OUR CHILDREN’S FLOOR”
Today I have Allison Hartman from Pensacola, Florida with me. The Hartman’s are staying with us for the week of 4th July. They are the family who organize the Above Rubies Family retreat in Panama Beach, Florida each year. Allison talks about the next one coming up in April 2023. She also talks about starting a Farmer’s Market in their community which is turning out a great blessing for them and the whole community. And we begin a new adventure in the land of motherhood. It’s a land of living in rest. Well, what is that like with the Hartman’s and others packed into our home, taking on a project of painting our huge downstairs social room and our kitchen cupboards all in two days before they fly out to Arizona! Can we live in rest when everything is in a shambles?
Announcer: Welcome to the podcast, Life to The Full, with Nancy Campbell, founder and publisher of Above Rubies.
Nancy Campbell: Hello, ladies. Today I have with me Allison Hartman, all the way from Pensacola, Florida. Allison has been on the podcast with me many times. Whenever they come to stay, we usually try to do a podcast together.
They have been staying with us for the Fourth of July. As we are doing this podcast, we actually celebrated the Fourth yesterday, and had the most glorious, wonderful, amazing day. Whenever we celebrate anything, I often think, “Wow, does anybody else in the world celebrate like us?” We really go to town.
Yesterday, as usual, our tradition is, we have a double banger. We start with our luncheon. This time we had it over at the wedding barn. This is the new barn that Sam, Serene’s husband, has been building. It’s getting better by the day. Most wonderful building. We were able to have, for the first time, our Fourth of July luncheon in beautiful comforting air con.
As usual, we started with the Prayer of Allegiance and singing the national anthem. Allison and her husband Daniel both spoke a little about freedom, which is all about our liberty. We wanted to celebrate that. Then we ate!
Allison: That’s right.
Nancy: What do you want to say, Allison? Did you enjoy yesterday?
Allison: It’s such a fun, fun time. I love seeing how there are so many different people come. It’s amazing. You guys can really pull off a big party quickly. So many different people from different backgrounds. It was fun. It was a great time.
Nancy: Yes. Then we, in the evening, we came back to our place here and had our traditional Fourth of July barbeque. I was trying to think, how many people came? Was there a couple of hundred or more?
Allison: Probably so, yeah. The place was packed.
Nancy: It was packed. Then we had these massive fireworks. I think it was the best we’ve had in years.
Allison: Oh, I know, I know.
Nancy: Goodness me! We might as well have gone down to downtown Nashville! It was so unbelievable.
Allison: Fabulous. Yes, yes.
Nancy: So, we had a great night. Everybody fellowshipping, all the young people playing volleyball. They played volleyball from after the luncheon till about 11 o’clock last night!
Allison: It never stopped. Never.
Nancy: How they kept going, I don’t know.
Allison: There were probably 30 or 40 down there. The whole time they had, I think they had four to eight teams going. As two came off, two would jump on.
Nancy: Yes, they’ve got it worked out. Usually there are so many young people, I count about 30 down there in the evening. They don’t have people watching. No, they’ve got this worked out that they’re back and forward. They all get involved, the whole time.
Allison: And they’re good! They’re good! It’s not just playing hit the ball. It’s serious competition.
Nancy: It’s serious! In fact, I think back to when we first put the volleyball court in. It was the best thing we ever did. They were pretty hopeless! [laughter]
Allison: Oh, I would agree with you!
Nancy: Because you guys were better! But then they had to practice to be able to beat the Floridians.
Allison: Well, you guys have the height! Everybody here has the height, but they didn’t have the skill. We had the skill, but not the height. Now they have both and we still can hold our own. But yeah, Florida versus Tennessee is quite a . . .
Nancy: Something else, isn’t it? Anyway, Allison and Daniel and all the families who are here are also going to be going on in a couple of days to join Serene and Sam, who left this morning to, where are you going?
Allison: The Grand Canyon.
Nancy: Ooh, how great! Tell us about your plans.
Allison: Oh, goodness! Well, we decided that our tradition, every time one of our older children graduates from high school, we’ll do a senior trip. So, we’re doing this as our Hallie’s senior trip. Serene and Sam thought, “Well, we’ll let it be Cedar’s senior trip.” They went ahead and took an RV.
We’re going to fly because we had sky miles. We were able to fly for free, all of us. That was fun. We’ll meet down in Phoenix. We have two weeks to explore. Sam’s got a couple things laid out, but for the most part, we’re just going to go and find out what happens when we get there. Kind of like we did in Israel. We had no plans, but it was always quite an adventure. We may end up in a Walmart parking lot with our RVs. Whatever we do, it’ll be fun, because we love that family.
Nancy: Well, two years ago, you all took off together, over to Israel that time. Maybe Sam will also want to take you out to his property out in New Mexico.
Allison: Yeah, that’s in the plans. That’s on his list of things to do, is to go to New Mexico. I don’t even know. He has it all planned out, but nowhere to stay yet. [laughter]
Nancy: That sounds so great! You should tell the ladies about your latest adventure! Whenever Allison is around, something is going to be happening. She can’t stop thinking of new things. Her latest is a Farmer’s Market! Tell us about that!
Allison: We live in Pensacola. During our slower season with our photography business, the only slow season we really have is during the summer. So, if I’m going to get anything accomplished, other than our normal work, it’s going to have to be during the summer.
I started thinking about a month and a half ago that I would love to have a place where my children could sell their stuff. We’re obviously a very entrepreneurial family. We own a photography studio. But my children are always selling things. My son grows moringa trees. Our girls, our little girls, eight and eleven, have been making sourdough bread, sourdough starter, and kefir. Our eight-year-old double-ferments kefir and wanted to sell it.
I thought we needed a place where they could really sell it, and there’d be a good amount of people there. We have a storefront, but I couldn’t figure out how to get people there. Sometimes I would have them set up a little table, like a lemonade stand style, and advertise it on Facebook. But we might only have two or three or four or five families come by and buy a few things.
I thought we need to have a place. So, we put it out there to the public, and said, “Would anybody be interested in joining us and doing a Farmer’s Market?” Well, the news station found out about it. The newspaper found out about it. They gave us a ton of free advertising. We went ahead and launched it.
Four weeks ago. we started a Farmer’s Market in our town. There are, right now we have 220 approved vendors on the list, anywhere from produce, to plants, to jewelry, woodworking, animals, dog treats. You name it. Coffee shop, there’s a coffee shop. There are bakery items. Yeah, we started a little farmer’s market. Now we’ve got about 50 – 60 vendors coming each week.
We’ve done it four weekends in a row. Each weekend we’ve had about 2,000 people come to shop it. It’s really a neat way to meet other people in your community. Also, if we did have food shortages, this is a perfect connection with other farmers and people that are growing their own things.
Nancy: Yes, yes. And your rule is, that they can only do it if they grow it or make it.
Allison: Yeah, you have to have it, it has to be grown, created, built completely, or at least mostly, by you. It can’t be things you buy and resell. But I encourage anyone out there, if you’re in even a small town, that doesn’t have a really thriving, and I mean at least 40 to 50 vendor market, start one! Because this is going to be a way where we can really connect with other people in our community and be able to buy and sell goods without worrying about food shortages, or whatever else is to come.
The Bible says to divide your substance to seven parts, even to eight, because you don’t know what evil could come upon us first. We’re seeing just a little bit, when it happened with covid, food shortages, things that you couldn’t get. Toilet paper, who would have ever thought? I think it’s wise for us to have, not only storing things up for ourselves, but have connections with people. Hey, I know where I can get coffee. I know where I can get honey. I know where I can get milk, eggs, things that we’re all going to need.
Nancy: Yes, and I think your husband Daniel sees it as maybe in the future, an opportunity to even barter with one another.
Allison: Absolutely. Absolutely. That’s the way things were back then. There’s a reason they call them “the good old days.” There were things that people did back in the day that it was very wise. Us buying everything on credit cards, people going into debt for things, spending way too much on retail.
You know, you have a chicken, and you have honey, and you get together and you make a swap. That’s the way we need to get back to. One tangible way to do it is to get involved with a Farmer’s Market or start one yourself.
Nancy: Tell us some of the things that your children are doing there.
Allison: Our older children who are married, and then our two older girls (who stay here often with you) they’ve started a coffee shop out of an old vintage Airstream camper. It’s super-cute. It was our camper that we used but we decided it would be a lot more helpful to have it as a coffee shop. They gutted the inside and put in a nice big wooden countertop so customers can walk right up to the window and order their coffee.
Our one son does the moringa trees. He grows them from seed, and he sells them for $15 a tree. Our first market he made $800 selling trees. My little six-year-old makes homemade lemonade out of lemons from our trees and stevia. Our daughter sells kefir. She’s eight.
Nancy: Emily makes that kefir herself.
Allison: She makes it herself. The grains we got from you guys. We keep fermenting it and double fermenting it.
Nancy: Don’t they sell the grains too?
Allison: They sell the grains for $10 for just one tablespoon of grains. The thing is, with supply and demand, if you can’t get something, then your supply is low. Your demand is high, which means you can ask pretty much whatever you want. These things they’re selling online for $14, $15, $20. For $10, if you can’t get it, that’s a great deal.
So, we’ve got kefir, sourdough, plants, coffee, vanilla extract. We made our own homemade vanilla extract. But then, like I said, we have vendors who are selling all sorts of things.
Nancy: Apart from all the vendors you have, you, as a family, how much do you make on just a few hours on Saturdays?
Allison: The first day we did it, our family made $2500 in three hours. Right now, we’re charging vendors a $10 vendor’s fee for a 10-foot area. Right now, all that money is going towards buying things like garbage cans and advertising. We’d like to buy a sound system so that we can make announcements. But eventually, once we have all of our supplies, we’ll be able to use that money. Also, I can pay one of our children to run the Farmer’s Market. That would be a little side business.
Nancy: Wonderful! Then you shared it yesterday, and I think some of our folks are already getting. . .
Allison: Yeah, if you’re in the Primm Springs-Nashville area. . .
Nancy: Well, Centerville.
Allison: Centerville. They’re going to start one, it sounds like very, very possibly soon. They want to do the same ideas.
Nancy: That’s all exciting! And yes, you’ve got to tell us, update us on the Above Rubies retreat down in Panama, Florida!
Allison: Yes, yes, yes, yes! This annual retreat we’ve been doing in Panama City Beach, Florida, right on the Gulf, I don’t even know how many years we’ve been doing it. But this past retreat in April, I think we had 850 people come. It was wonderful! Just a great retreat. Wonderful.
Almost every family that came wants to come back. Of course, they all want to bring a friend, so we’ll eventually have to bust out of there, or build a new building. That was fun. We got to talk to the owner, you and me. That was fun. They’re definitely thinking of ways to make a bigger area for us.
Nancy: So, therefore, can people still register?
Allison: Yes. It’s actually, right now, if you came to the last one, we’re giving all those families a few more weeks to re-register for 2023. Then we will open it up for any new family. Probably in the next week or so we’ll have it open for any new family.
This is definitely one of the most popular retreats, because we’re right on the beach, there’s so much to do for children and young people. It’s just amazing. I think we had over 100 families come. Almost every one of those is going to go home, tell a friend, and invite someone else.
Nancy: It’s so wonderful. The families coming, with all their children, some with just a few little ones, but many with grown children, which makes so many young people. The young people, they’re beginning to make life-long friends.
Of course, what we love, is we hope that maybe some of them will find the one that God has for them. The best place in the world for young people to find their future husband or wife is amongst beautiful families and kindred spirits, young people who love the Lord with all their hearts.
Allison: There’s so many like-minded families all over. But within their own towns, a lot of these families are saying, “I have no one like this. I don’t know anyone like this.” We all come together twice a year, but what’s happening . . . Any other time we’ve done a camp, right after the retreat, you might keep in touch with one or two families. But that’s about it. Then you see each other the next year. But that’s not what’s happening.
During the conference, we always have a group chat. We’ll share announcements and messages, and “Hey, change of plans. We’re meeting here,” or “We’re starting dinner now,” whatever. But what’s happened with this particular retreat, the Gulf Coast Above Rubies Family Camp, is that all these families have become such good friends. Their children are now getting in relationships. They are all visiting each other all over the state. It seems like every week someone’s visiting another family at their house in different parts of the world. This group chat that was meant just for announcements is now a continuing daily conversation with all these like-minded families.
Nancy: Someone’s having something happen. “What should I do about this? Got any ideas?” And people are sharing. It’s so incredible! Helping one another.
Allison: It’s amazing. Most of these families don’t have similar-minded families at their own house. Or family members. So, it’s like you have these immediate group of people that have created themselves a new family that’s maybe not blood related. But it’s so much stronger.
So, yeah, I talked to a family today that asked, “Hey, could I come to y’all’s house, even though you’re going to be out of town? We want to look for a house, maybe, in your city.” It’s really neat.
The next official retreat is April 20-23. In about a week, it will be open to the public where people can book. Right now, it’s just for those that came last year, but if you are interested, and you heard about it, or you’re just now hearing about it, reach out to me. I’m Allison Hartman. I can put my phone number on the podcast, and you can call me, you can text me. We also have a Facebook page called Gulf Coast Above Rubies Family Camp. I can send you the link to register. But we also have a reunion. Do you want me to talk about that?
Nancy: Yes, yes. But I should say, if they really are interested, they need to contact you pretty well straightaway, because it’s going to fill up so quickly.
Allison: Yeah, the April retreat, this location that we go to is wonderful. But there’s only so much housing. Let’s just pretend all 100 families that came to the April retreat, they all go home. They tell someone, a family member, a friend. Then those people come and most of them have seven, eight, nine children. Some not. Some have less, some have more. But then they come. We were totally maxed out this past time. So, if all the families brought someone else, we would not be able to house them all. If you’re even interested a little bit, you need to not procrastinate, and book right away.
Nancy: And then, now you have a reunion too, don’t you? They’re coming up next month.
Allison: Yes, in a couple of weeks. It’s going to be in August, August 10-17. What happened is, the year that covid happened, we weren’t allowed to meet in April. They allowed us to meet that August. Well, because we had already booked that date, they said, “Do you want to lose April?”
We said, “No, we want to keep April.” They said, “OK, we’ll give you April, but do you want to keep August?” We thought, “Well, some people might want to get together twice a year. So, now we do our official big conference in April. But then in August, about a third of the families will all come back to the same location.
We have a reunion. We don’t have everything scheduled. We won’t have designated speaking times. But some families like it even better. We did lots of cookouts together. We did a date night. We did a talent show. We did a game night. We did a worship night. We had a ladies’ tea. It’s such a fun, laid-back way to get together with 30, 40 families that are, I would say, very like-minded, from all over.
Nancy: So, you can still book in for that at the last minute, if you want to. Just a beautiful vacation with wonderful people. So great!
You know, we were talking the other day, Allison, about our children, and what purpose do we have for them, as we’re training them and raising them. You said something, how your vision is that you want your children not to start where you started, but to start where you are now. Tell us about how that’s working out in your family life.
Allison: That’s exactly our, me and my husband’s vision. A couple of years ago, we heard a man, a guest preacher at our church, who came. He made a statement that you should want your children’s floor to be your ceiling. We both looked at each other and thought, “That’s what we want!” We want our children to start where we left off.
In order to do that, there’s a fine line between enabling, and encouraging and supporting, and being like a trampoline for your children. You see some parents that think that they need to do that, by buying them things, or giving them that boost to get where they need to be. I think really, that’s a disadvantage to your children. If you’re buying them everything, and then “setting them up for success,” you really didn’t set them up for success. You set them up for failure.
Nancy: Absolutely!
Allison: Because that’s not real life. People in life just aren’t going to give them things. What we’re trying to do, let’s say, for example, Ethan, our 16-year-old, is bound to be an entrepreneur. He wants to be a businessman. But what does a 16-year-old not have? Well, he doesn’t have a car. He doesn’t have a phone, because we don’t believe in iPhones. We don’t do social media at all for our teenagers, young adults.
Our older married daughter has a phone, and our 20-year-old has a phone. But he doesn’t have that. He doesn’t have contacts, meaning customers. He wants to sell moringa trees internationally, all over. At least nationally. So, what can I do to help him be successful with that?
Well, I help him brand it. I help him come up with logos. I created a big banner, and I ordered it for him. I advertised it for him. We created a Farmer’s Marker for him. We’re doing different things to help him be successful, but yet, he’s doing it all himself. We’re just helping him.
When Daniel and I are “done raising children,” they’re going to be so successful where they’re at, once they begin their marriage. Like our oldest daughter, who’s married, she’s teaching swim lessons. She does the Infant Swim Rescue. Instead of going off to college, which is what most people her age would have done, we encouraged her to look into this Infant Swim Rescue.
So, she, at 19, started teaching children to swim and rescue themselves. Now, she’s doing it in our backyard, which I guess you could say, that’s kind of enabling her. But not really. We already have the pool. We might as well let her use it. She’s able to come, which is wonderful, because we get to see our grandbaby every day. We’re helping her. She’s making great money. She teaches swim, makes a hundred dollars an hour.
Our son-in-law works for our photography business. He also is starting this coffeeshop. He also has a wood-working business. For that, we helped advertise it on Facebook. We just try to do different things to get their name out, encourage people to buy their stuff.
Again, we’re spring boarding them, using the talents that we already have. I’m a huge marketer. Anyone that has an idea, I’ll help them get the idea out. Of course, my children, I love them to death, so I want to help them. I want to encourage them.
Nancy: Yes, I think back to our children, when we were raising them. We didn’t give them anything, everything they needed. They had to work for it. I believe that children have to learn to work for what they get, because, as you say, when they go out in that world, they’re not going to get it given to them. They’ve got to work for it.
Of course, they all had their different abilities and personalities. But our oldest son was an entrepreneur, more than anyone else in our family. Right from a young age, if he wanted something, well, we didn’t say, “OK, here it is.” No, he had to work. He would go to the dump, and he would find stuff. He would go around the houses selling it. He would do anything. Anything he wanted, he got. But he didn’t get it through it being given to him. He found a way of getting it.
Today he’s such a very successful entrepreneur. He has so many businesses, and he sells them, and gets more businesses, and so on. But he learned that at a young age.
Allison: Here’s another advantage. How many people out there listening have young people, teenager-age, that are constantly getting in trouble? Doing things, wasting time, hanging out with friends that really aren’t that good.
When you are helping them create a business, they are so busy. They don’t have time to be on their phones, playing video games, doing things that are mindless. They’re constantly busy, and they’ll get excited. It’s so cute.
At the market that we started, our little ones will sell something. Then they’ll sit and count their money. And then they’ll look at all the other vendors to think what can they spend their money on? They’re so young.
Our little six-year-old, the first day of the market, he made $100 selling lemonade. I think he spent $100 because he would take his money and run across and buy a duck or buy whatever he could buy. Thankfully, the duck people were sold out so he couldn’t buy a duck!
It keeps them so busy. They’re so proud of themselves. But it really keeps them out of trouble.
Nancy: And it makes them so productive. I look at your children and I am totally and absolutely amazed. We haven’t really explained in this podcast, but our grandson Cedar, who is Sam and Serene’s son, is engaged to Halley, Allison’s beautiful daughter. Also, another one of Serene’s sons, Vision, is courting Eden, another one of her daughters. It’s rather beautiful.
Oh, goodness me, I have really never seen young people like these. In fact, the whole family, every time the Hartmans come to our place, they don’t just sit around on the sofa and visit. Wow! Everything starts happening! They simply cannot come without doing a project.
One time, when they came up, Daniel looked at our deck and thought, “Oh, goodness me, this is getting run-down. It needs redoing.” He redid our whole deck! It was amazing.
Another time they came, he looked at our shed. Is that what you call them here? Our shed, tool shed, junk shed, you know how you put everything in the shed. Oh, goodness me, you could hardly walk into it. Daniel gets in there, and he completely revolutionizes the whole thing!
Was it earlier this year, I think, when the girls came up? Cedar and Vision, our grandsons, and Halley and Eden, these beautiful young girls, got stuck in. They ripped out our carpet. They put down all the wood floors.
I have to admit, Allison’s girls are beautiful. You look at them and think that they’re just little princesses who would sit on sofas. Wow! Do they know how to work! They were down there, putting down this floor. They also painted all the walls of the living room.
Then they came back a couple of weeks ago, and they painted the bedroom walls! They cannot come to this house, or go anywhere, without doing something. Now, help! Now, they’re here for two days before they fly out. They decided, “OK, I think we’ll paint downstairs.” That’s where we have church, and our social room, and all our big family gatherings. Now we’re in the midst of complete renovation downstairs! And the girls are also deciding to paint the cupboards in the kitchen! It's just unbelievable.
But, you see, Allison and Daniel have trained them how to work and how to get stuck-in. They never just sit around. They’ve got to do a project.
Allison: Honestly, you’re such a blessing to us, so it’s how could we ever repay you? But this is something I think we, as the body, not everyone has talents. Nobody has the same talents, so where you have poured your time into so many mothers and families, but you don’t necessarily take the time to think about your own stuff.
It would be a blessing if someone did that to my house, so this is their way of pouring back into you guys. They do love seeing a project, from start to finish, and see stuff get done. I’m more of a delegator. I get things started and then they’ll do all the hard work.
Nancy: She trained them to do the work! But the amazing thing is, they do everything so perfectly and amazingly and they know how to do it. Everything they tackle. In fact, I remember, was it the last retreat, or one of them anyway, where the food that you had ordered didn’t come. The truck couldn’t make it. So, there you were, with over 800 people to feed and no food. But you just sent Eden to Sam’s Club to order all the food. What 19-year-old girl . . .
Allison: $6,000 worth of food.
Nancy: Yes! How many 19-year-old girls can take that responsibility and go and do it? It’s just amazing. You’ve been pretty great parents.
We’ve been chatting about everything that’s happening here. But I think we’ll do another podcast together. We may get onto my next point about the land of motherhood because we’re still doing that. You can find out next podcast what it will be. Love you!
Let me pray for you:
“Father, we thank You again for these times where we can chat together about family, and the things we do in each other’s families. Lord, I pray that You will inspire the precious mothers today. Lord, give them vision for their children. Save them from being parents who enable their children, giving them whatever they want. Lord, that’s not good parenting.
Lord, we have to be parents who prepare our children for life, prepare them to face the challenges, prepare them how to work, prepare them how to know how to cope, and live, and work in this life. We ask for Your wisdom, Lord God. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.”
Blessings from Nancy Campbell
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HERE ARE THE DATES!
THREE FAMILY RETRATS FOR LAGUNA BEACH, FLORIDA IN 2023!
Families come from all over the States to these retreats. Some are coming from overseas!
January 4 – 11 - The winter retreat!
If you live in the cold in a northern state, take this opportunity to come down to the warmth and sunshine of Florida and receive wonderful blessings as a family at the same time!
Above Rubies Gulf Coast January Family Retreat 2023
Registration fee: $200
Housing is VERY limited, assigned through Gulf Coast Above Rubies Organizers
This coming January, from the 4th-11th
Speakers: Nancy and Colin Campbell
Teaching, worship, prayer, small groups, great fellowship, family activities, volley ball and basketball competitions, fun games on the beach. The schedule and meal info will be released soon.
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April 19 – 26 – The popular annual retreat!
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