If you have a church retreat or study group planned for Arizona, the Gold Bar Ranch has the perfect high desert, mountain foothills facility. This large, outdoor adventure resort is the perfect retreat location to hold your church meetings, supervised youth groups, and bible study groups. Your retreat will be near Phoenix, but your members will be far away from their daily routines where they can on spiritual conditions with a clear and focused mind.

The Gold Bar has long been a favorite Arizona destination for spiritual and church retreats. The quiet and solitude of the Gold Bar Ranch lend themselves to fellowship, study and worship. We can handle everything from your small church devotionals to large congregation meetings. Our experience, combined with a wide variety of facilities and great food and beverage service, can make your church retreat a success.

Just 2 1/2 hours from Phoenix and 1 hour from Prescott, we are easy to reach from all of Arizona. The Gold Bar Ranch offers lovely campsite areas by a large fishing pond,  RV parking spots and a awesome bed & breakfast cabin that sleeps up to six and can host events with up to 100 members.

Church retreats are an excellent way for your church to bring together the members of the congregation in a spiritually renewing setting. Offering a church retreat creates community and support with the people closest to you spiritually. Planned correctly, a church retreat can be a focal element of the church’s overall well-being.

The Gold Bar Ranch offers 300-secluded acres in one of the most fertile high desert and mountains foothill areas of Arizona. The ranch embodies serenity in nature and has numerous nature and hiking trails through desert and river bed setting that lead to vacant ghost towns, old gold mines, ancient indian ruins, and old historic cemeteries and has many favorite outdoor spots for groups meetings and functions to be held.

A spiritual retreat is a time-honored religious experience of drawing aside to a quiet place by oneself –or with a spouse, or with a group — to learn more of the ways of God’s loving relationship with us–and to discover how to recognize the presence of spiritual balance in the moments of very ordinary living, as well as in the extraordinary events of our life.

A spiritual retreat is a time to examine, to discover, and to decide–a time to look back with reverence and gratitude, and perhaps even with some sorrow and regret–a time to find peace in the present and hope for the future–a time to decide which path of life we will follow, our own, or that of Jesus and the gospel. As with any religious experience, a retreat is a journey of discovery to the inner self and then back again to the circumstances of our every- day life, but with new, fresh perspectives. While retreat events follow a time schedule, participants are encouraged to pace the retreat to their personal needs for prayer, rest, and relaxation..

A spiritual retreat or church retreat is an excellent way for your church to foster community and support with the people closest to you spiritually. Selecting the proper location to host a retreat is an important factor in a retreat’s overall mission success.

Please contact us for details on how to plan a successful retreat full of outdoor adventure, great facilities and a pristine environment where you can truly feels God’s power and presence.