Young woman standing in a calm river, surrounded by lush green forest

Restoration and Renewal for Young Women

You’ve learned how to keep it together, how to answer “I’m good” without thinking. But somewhere under the routine, life is still asking to be processed, and giving yourself the space to actually do it is worth it.

Renew · Restore · Reconnect

Chadash campers at a Northwoods trailhead, packs on, ready to head in
A group of young women with paddles at the river's edge before launch
Four loaded red canoes pulled up on a stony shore beneath a Wisconsin bridge
Two young women canoeing at dawn
Your next step

Step out of the noise. Step into His creation.

  • 01

    Step away

    Trade phones, schedules, and noise for campfires, water, and mosquitoes.

  • 02

    Sit with it

    Honest conversations, scripture, and quiet space to hear the still small voice.

  • 03

    Walk it out

    Leave with a fresh perspective on your life — hopefully having met the Lord in a fresh way and made long-lasting friends who can be there for you.

Aug 5 to 14, 2026

Flambeau River Canoe Trip

Northern Wisconsin · Ages 14 to 18

Registration Closed

Aug 17 to 23, 2026

Ice Age Trails Hike

Wisconsin · Ages 18+

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Your journey towards
hope starts today
Is this a good fit for you?

See yourself here?

If any of this sounds like the season you're in, you're exactly who we built Chadash for.

External

Isolation

You're surrounded by people, but have no safe place to be honest. No one to walk alongside the hardest parts.

Internal

Shame & fear

You're wrestling with questions about God, identity, and worth, and you're afraid to say them out loud.

Spiritual

Hope feels distant

You carry a longing for renewal you can't name, sure that something must be too broken to restore.

Young women preparing red canoes along the lakeshore
You don't walk alone

Someone has already sat with this.

Many years of listening to young women, and to the parents who love them, taught us this: the questions you're carrying aren't too much, and you don't have to carry them by yourself.

Often our greatest calling arises from our deepest pain.

Valita, Founder

When social media and negativity is stripped from you, God is able to work at your heart wounds.

Darla, Canoe Trip Alum

Read our story
A simple path forward

The plan

Three steps from where you are to who you were made to be.

01

Apply

Tell us a little about yourself and the trip that's stirring something in you.

02

Come on a trip

Leave the noise behind. Paddle, hike, rest, and meet God in His creation with a community that's all-in for you.

03

Walk forward renewed

Return with hope, courage, and a clearer sense of who you are, and Who is with you.

Two young women paddling a canoe across a sunny northern lake
A few real days outside

What you'll do

Paddle, cook over a fire, sleep under the stars.

You’ll learn to paddle, set up camp, build a fire, and cook over it. You’ll face a few rapids, laugh more than you expect, and sleep under more stars than you’ve ever seen.

There’s a quiet time each day to read, pray, or simply sit. And there’s a solo day — time alone with God that a lot of girls dread beforehand and treasure afterward.

You are not the only one

Most people only ever see the part of you that’s doing fine.

You answer “good” when they ask. You smile in the right places. You keep up, keep busy, keep it together.

But there are things you’ve never said out loud… questions about God you’re not sure you’re allowed to ask, a shame you carry quietly, the wondering whether anyone would still want you if they saw all of it.

We’ve walked with enough young women to tell you this gently and surely— “you are not the only one.”

Room to breathe

Away from screens and the race to always be doing the next thing, there is finally space to think, to rest, and to feel something real.

A quieter voice

Scripture says the Lord met Elijah not in the wind or the fire, but in a gentle whisper. Out here, with the noise stripped away, He is easier to hear.

1 Kings 19:12

Honest company

A small group of girls and guides who won't flinch at your real questions. You can stop performing here.

Take the next step

“Chadash. Hebrew for restoration and renewal. Nothing is too broken for the Lord Jesus to restore.”