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

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




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Trade phones, schedules, and noise for campfires, water, and mosquitoes.
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Honest conversations, scripture, and quiet space to hear the still small voice.
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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
Northern Wisconsin · Ages 14 to 18
Registration ClosedAug 17 to 23, 2026
Wisconsin · Ages 18+
View trip detailsSee yourself here?
External
You're surrounded by people, but have no safe place to be honest. No one to walk alongside the hardest parts.
Internal
You're wrestling with questions about God, identity, and worth, and you're afraid to say them out loud.
Spiritual
You carry a longing for renewal you can't name, sure that something must be too broken to restore.

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
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Tell us a little about yourself and the trip that's stirring something in you.
Leave the noise behind. Paddle, hike, rest, and meet God in His creation with a community that's all-in for you.
Return with hope, courage, and a clearer sense of who you are, and Who is with you.

What you'll do
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 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.”
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.
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
A small group of girls and guides who won't flinch at your real questions. You can stop performing here.
“Chadash. Hebrew for restoration and renewal. Nothing is too broken for the Lord Jesus to restore.”