Cultivating Redemption Retreat
January 2027 • Edwardsville, Illinois
A sacred invitation to bring your story into the light, find freedom from what has kept you bound, and heal in the safety of His presence.
3-day Women's Retreat to Heal D.E.E.P.E.R. Than Your Brokenness!
A restorative retreat for women who are ready to stop simply carrying what hurts and begin allowing Jesus into the places they've learned to hide, protect, or push down.
This retreat isn't about doing more, trying harder, or learning how to cope better.
It's about creating space to truly heal—to understand your story, encounter Jesus within it, and begin walking in greater freedom.
Why Finding Redemption Matters
In the Cultivating Redemption Retreat, we create space to recognize the lies that have kept us bound, listen for the voice of Jesus, and begin seeing our stories through the lens of His truth and redemption.
Healing doesn't require erasing what happened. It invites Jesus into the places we've carried alone and allows His truth to begin transforming the way we understand our stories.
Bring the hidden places of your story into the light
Recognize the lies, fear, and shame that have kept you bound
Encounter the healing presence of Jesus within safe, Christ-centered community
Because redemption isn't pretending the brokenness never happened. It's discovering that Jesus can meet us there—and that our brokenness doesn't get the final word.
Is Cultivating Redemption For You?
This Retreat Is For You If...
Something in Your Story Still Feels Unresolved: You may not call it trauma, but you recognize that past experiences are still shaping the way you live, relate, or see yourself today.
You Feel Stuck: You recognize patterns of fear, shame, self-protection, or isolation and long for greater freedom.
You Struggle to Feel Safe Being Fully Known: Vulnerability feels risky, and there are parts of your story you've learned to hide, minimize, or carry alone.
You Want to Cultivate Deeper Trust: You desire greater freedom to trust God, yourself, and the people He has placed around you.
You Long for Healthier Relationships: You recognize that what you've experienced can influence the way you connect, protect yourself, establish boundaries, or respond to others.
You Desire Safe, Christ-Centered Community: You want space to process alongside other women who are also pursuing healing and freedom.
You Sense Jesus Inviting You Deeper: Something in you knows it's time to stop simply managing what hurts and allow Jesus into places you may have avoided.
You're Ready to Participate in Your Healing: You want a biblical, intentional framework to help you understand your story and walk toward greater freedom.
This Retreat Is NOT For You If...
You're not open to Jesus being at the center of the healing process.
You're looking for a quick fix rather than a safe space to begin—or continue—the deeper work of healing.
You're not willing to approach your own story with honesty, curiosity, and openness to what God may reveal.
You're unable to travel to Edwardsville, Illinois for the retreat weekend.
The Framework That Guides the
Cultivating Redemption Retreat
Cultivating Redemption walks you through six intentional movements designed to help you bring your story into the light, recognize what has kept you bound, and invite Jesus into the places that need His truth and redemption.
Healing D.E.E.P.E.R. than your brokenness begins by creating space for Jesus to meet you within your story.
Develop Awareness: Begin recognizing the patterns, wounds, and hidden places that may still be shaping the way you live today.
Establish a Safe Place: Discover what emotional and spiritual safety looks like—and create space to honestly process your story with Jesus and trusted others.
Examine Fear: Identify the fears influencing your choices and learn to discern whether they are leading you toward truth and freedom or keeping you bound.
Process Who God Is: Examine what your story has taught you to believe about God and allow the truth of His character to reshape what you thought you knew.
Explore New Depths: Experience deeper freedom as healing expands your capacity to trust, love, receive, and live more fully as the woman God created you to be.
Redeem Brokenness: Discover how Jesus can redeem even the most broken places of your story—bringing purpose from pain without erasing what you've walked through.
What You'll Experience & Receive...
Guided Transformation
A 40-day Knowing the Voice of God Bible Study to continue your journey beyond the retreat.
A private one-on-one session with Crystal for personal reflection, encouragement, and prayer.
6 BIBLE-BASED SESSIONS
Six guided sessions through the Healing D.E.E.P.E.R. framework, rooted in Scripture and your personal story.
Thought-provoking questions and reflective practices to help you engage what God is revealing.
DEEPER CONFIDENCE
Grow in confidence as you learn to recognize God's voice and discern truth from the lies that have kept you bound.
Leave with a clearer understanding of how to continue stewarding your healing beyond the retreat.
A SAFE SPACE TO PROCESS
Process your story within a small, intimate group where vulnerability is met with grace, truth, and care.
Experience meaningful connection with women who are also pursuing deeper healing and freedom.
PRAYER & CONNECTION
Learn to bring the places that need healing honestly before Jesus through Scripture, prayer, and reflection.
Experience intentional space for prayer, rest, quiet, and listening to God.
TOOLS FOR THE JOURNEY
Learn practical ways to cultivate safety, recognize fear, challenge lies with truth, and remain grounded in what God is revealing.
Leave with practices you can continue using as you walk out healing and redemption in everyday life.
There's Space For You Here
SISTERHOOD
REST & CONNECT
SPACE TO MEET WITH JESUS
Meet Your Host
Crystal Persons
About 10 years into marriage and ministry, Jesus chased me down and made it clear He wanted my whole heart—not just the put-together parts. I was terrified, uncertain of whether the church would accept us if my past was brought into the light.
By God's grace, I SAW NO OTHER OPTION APART FROM SURRENDER.
I grew up in the church. I was a Bible college graduate. And yet, I had no idea how to lead from a place of vulnerability. My husband and I ventured into this unknown space together, each surrendering our own stories for God's redemptive purposes.
Over the years, we were met not only with acceptance, but with more grace and support through the body of Christ than we ever could have imagined. The evidence became undeniable—THE ENEMY IS A LIAR, and shame and condemnation had kept us captive for far too long.
That journey changed the way I understood healing. I began to see that the places we most want to hide are often the very places Jesus is inviting us to bring into His light—not to shame us, but to meet us there with truth, grace, and redemption.
And that is the heart behind Cultivating Redemption.
Grandmothers, mothers, daughters...we have territory to reclaim for the Kingdom of God, and some of that territory is found within our very own stories. The Gospel comes alive as Jesus redeems our darkest places for His glory and our good.
No more believing that the imperfect parts of our stories disqualify us. No more allowing shame to have the final word.
JESUS DESIRES TO USE OUR UTTERMOST BROKENNESS FOR HIS UTTERMOST GLORY.
What You Need to Know
WHERE
Edwardsville, Illinois
WHEN
January 2027
WHY
To Invite Jesus Into Your Story
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