The Zoweh Team is honored and excited that you have registered for Rendezvous Couples Weekend! We have seen God move mightily in the hearts of husbands and wives at our previous couples getaways, and are hopeful and expectant that He will again set many hearts free this weekend.
Thank you for stepping into this great weekend, for your heart, and for your hearts together. However, steps toward life and freedom are opposed. Be on the lookout and don’t give up the precious ground that you’ve made by registering for Rendezvous. We have been and will continue to pray for you as our weekend together approaches.
As we prepare to enter the mission of this weekend, there are a few items you need to know…
Pre-Weekend Preparation
THIS WORK IS ESSENTIAL to our time together through the Rendezvous weekend. It MUST be completed individually before you arrive on November 1. Your relationship is worth the time it will take you to complete so that our time together can be maximized.
- His: Life Story Discovery, Intimacy Check Up, Passions, Passion Verbs
- Hers: Life Story Discovery, Intimacy Check Up, Passions, Passion Verbs
- BOTH: Take 15 minutes to complete the assessment found here: https://www.exploreyourtype.com/intro. Don't read too much into your results, send them to sherry@zoweh.org, and we'll go from there. We'll talk about it this weekend!
***Please bring your completed work with you, you'll need it for our time together.***
Prayer
We encourage and invite you to pray The Daily Prayer for yourself, and The Rendezvous Weekend Couples Prayer together (alternate reading the paragraphs aloud together) regularly leading up to the event.
We strongly encourage you to recruit three family members or friends who are willing to pray for you leading up to, during, and after the conference. Please register their names and their emails below so we can correspond with them just prior to and during the conference. We suggest you forward them your daily prayer and ask them to get started praying over and for you and against Satan’s plans and ploys set against you. Please enter your intercessors below, one at a time.
Come with Me!
Arrival Details
Plan on arriving to check in at The Chetola between 4-5:30PM. Once on the property, signs will be posted leading you to check in. At check in, you'll receive a packet with information regarding your accommodations. Allow 20-30 minutes for the check in process. Although not recommended, late check in will be offered after the evening session so if you have to arrive later than 7pm; go right to the session in Evergreen Room.
You are responsible for making all your travel arrangements to and from Rendezvous at Chetola Resort, 185 Chetola Lake Drive, Blowing Rock, NC 28605. For directions to the resort, click here.
Accommodations/Meals
The Chetola Resort at Blowing Rock is an 87-acre resort within walking distance of a quaint mountain village, neighboring a 3,600-acre National Park and surrounded by the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina.
Our Rendezvous guest accommodations are in three and four bedroom condos, with sheets, blanket, pillow, washcloths, and towels provided. Each condo is equipped with a full kitchen and your meals will be provided from dinner Thursday to lunch Sunday. If you have special dietary needs please email Sherry Jennings (sherry@zoweh.org), you are welcome to bring what you need, as well as snacks and bottled water for “in-between meals.”
You'll have free time as a couple to do what is good for your hearts Friday and Saturday 1-4PM. We encourage you to peruse the ideas/links below (costs of free time activities NOT included in registration):
- Schedule a couples massage at The Spa at The Chetola
- Discover the fun available to you onsite- hiking, indoor pool, hot tub, sauna, and more
- Enjoy The Chetola Sporting Reserve featuring an array of outdoor sportsman activities including gun, rifle and pistol ranges, sporting clay course, 5-stand clay station, archery range, and fly fishing
- Explore the surrounding area attractions
Air Traffic Control
If you have any questions or concerns, please email event coordinator Sherry Jennings at sherry@zoweh.org and she will help you any way she and the team possibly can. This webpage is your place of contact. Check back periodically for any updates or changes.
We are so looking forward to November 1 and the mission to take steps further up and further in to the Life God has for each of us!
Preparing My Heart for Battle Prayer
Dear God, Holy Trinity; Father, Son and Spirit, thank you for arranging for our getaway with you. Thank you for pursuing us and wanting us, inviting us to come away and explore the glory of who you are and discover more of your Love, Life, and Kingdom. We worship you and offer our hopes for this weekend to you. We invite you to prepare our hearts, souls, minds, and bodies; all of who we are and are becoming; for the journey and the steps you have for us this Rendezvous Weekend.
Father, you are our true Father and the one who has brought us into your family through Christ, your son. We, too are your son and daughter and receive all the work of Jesus on our behalf; Cross, Resurrection, and Ascension. Thank you for your grace and your love and for wanting us as your own. We open our hearts to you now and through these days leading to Rendezvous Weekend. Thank you for making us a Beloved Son and Daughter, and for revealing to us all that is wonderful, glorious, and significant about our place in your heart together.
Jesus, thank you for coming for us, ransoming us, redeeming us, and now restoring us into the greatest version of ourselves—who you made us to be when you knew us before you laid the foundations of the earth in place. We declare you are the King of our hearts, the Good Shepherd, the Savior of our lives, and we take our places now in your Life… you alone are Life. We give you our hearts and all the hopes we have in this weekend. We give you our hurts, disappointments, and discouragement. Carry us to the weekend, Jesus. Prepare our hearts for more of you and more of us—our true selves, the Beloved Son and Daughter of a good, good Father.
Holy Spirit, we give you our hearts. Thank you for guiding us to this weekend away together with you. We confess, we need you, Holy Spirit. Connect with our spirits in the deep places. We give you permission to prepare our hearts for the days ahead and for the weekend to come. We need your guidance, counsel, teaching, and correction. Prepare our hearts, Holy Spirit, for the weekend; prepare our eyes, ears, and hearts to receive all you have for us, that you would bring transformation and irreversible change to our lives.
Dear God, Blessed Trinity; Father, Son and Holy Spirit, protect us from the evil one. I call forth the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ over our hearts, our marriage, our family, our relationships, and all of our domain. I declare, this is a weekend set apart for our healing, training, and freedom and that Satan and the kingdom of darkness and all the fallen angels are defeated by the Cross and full work of Christ, and we take our places in the Cross declaring victory over the enemies of our hearts and all their foul work set against us, our family, and our domain. I pray in and claim the day of reckoning where lies are replaced with the truth and freedom takes the place of any and all bondage. We take our places as a Beloved Son-Warrior Man and Daughter-Warrior Princess of your Kingdom. With all its privileges and responsibilities, we prepare our hearts to receive the fullness of who you made us and the authority which you want to entrust to us.
Father, send out your warring angels, dispatch the heavenly hosts to war for us and our second birth right. We bring our full hearts and all of our domain—everywhere we have been given authority—under the provision and protection of the Lord Jesus Christ who has called us away for this weekend together with you. We declare our freedom and these steps to freedom. We bring the authority, reign, and rule of the Lord Jesus Christ over our household, our finances, our relationship, our work, and all of our domain. I declare, Greater is He who is in us than he who is in the world. We belong to God and all the riches and blessings He has set for us in Christ we now claim in the name and authority that is above every name, Jesus, our Savior and our King. Amen and AMEN!