Flip Flop Summer Retreat Ideas

Summer is a great time for a women’s ministry get-together. It’s a great time for a laid back relaxing event. Flip Flops & Friends make a great theme for that. You can turn it into summer party mode if you want.

Flip Flop Summer Party Ideas

How about serving up something easy like summer salads or even just roast some marshmallows and make some S’mores? Easy does it for summer!

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Flip Flops Event Concept

—Originally Posted June 4, 2014 as a “Flip Flops & Friends” women’s ministry theme
—Updated June 2020

The event themes on the website can be used for showers, parties, women’s ministry retreats and activities, or church functions. Each theme will have one or several possible spiritual applications. I give you lots of info and ideas—You pick just a few to enhance your event. More ideas can be used for showers and parties, but less is always more for ministry events.

Theme Title Ideas

  • Contending for the Faith
  • Dip and Flip Night – (Dip Fondue. Wear Flip Flops)
  • Don’t Flip Flop on Jesus!
  • Earnestly Contending
  • Faithfully Standing
  • Flip and Dip (Casual meeting- wear flip flops, dips and munchies)
  • Flop and Shop (Put together some booths from some of your home-based business gals.  Support each other!)
  • Flop and Swap (Casual meeting-wear flip flops.  Do a swap—purses, clothes, etc.)
  • Flip for Fellowship
  • Flip for Leadership (summer get-together for your women’s ministry team – wear flip flops and fellowship)
  • Flip Flops & Faith
  • Flip Flops, Faith, and Friends
  • Flip Flops and Flamingos (summer party. See the Flamingo Theme here.)
  • Flip Flops, Fondue, & Friends
  • Flip Flops, Fudge, and Friends
  • Flop to a Full Stop (Resting in the Lord–casual meeting)
  • Get a Grip and Don’t Flip!
  • In Step with Faith
  • On the Flip Side (Backyard Barbecue)
  • Flip and Sip (Flip flops and smoothies or milkshakes for a summer get-together)
  • “Sole’ Sisters
  • Standing Firm
  • Stop and Flop! (Casual Meeting)
  • Stop, Flop and Frozen Yogurt Night (Thanks to Denise for this idea!)
  • Summer Walk (use a local walking track or park)
  • Walking in Faith

Spiritual Applications

  • Focus on not flip-flopping on our faith, but “contending” for the faith (Jude 1:3).
  • Focus on fellowship and encouragement for long hot summer days.
  • Focus on anger (flipping your lid )
  • Focus on worry and anxieties (not flipping out when life get hard)
  • Focus on attitudes (flipping your attitude around)
  • Focus on moving past mistakes (everybody flops some times.)

Theme Verse Suggestions

“Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.”   Jude 1:3 (KJV)

“Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.”   1 Corinthians 16:13 (KJV)

Devotional and Workshop Ideas

Simple Decorating

  • Tray with flip flops and beach items.
    • Flop Flops
    • Beach ball
    • Sunglasses
    • Fun summer drink cup
    • Sand bucket with sand and seashells
    • Use a folded beach towel to line the tray.

Icebreakers

Discussion Starters

  • What is the last baking or cooking recipe you tried that was a flop?
  • What is the last DIY or craft project you tried that was a flop?
  • What is the last blessing you received that made you flip with joy?

Music

  • Hold the Fort (Bliss)
  • Faith is the Victory (Yates)
  • Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus (Duffield)\
  • Sound the Battle Cry (Sherwin)

Favor Ideas

  • Pair of flip flops
  • Any summer item (sunglasses, summer hats, summer drinking cup with lid)
  • Summer lanyards (the kind with a container for beaches)
  • Summer fruit/Jelly in mini jam jars.

Door Prizes

  • Flip flops
  • Beach towel
  • Sunglasses
  • Summer Beach Hat
  • Gift Certificate for ice cream such as Cold Stone
  • Summer Basket: flop flops, beach towel, sunglasses, summer cup (plastic with lid and straw), or any summer item
  • Fruit Basket: fill with summer fruits

Just for Fun

  • Send out invitations that are flip flop shaped.
  • Do a Flip Flop Craft: Decorate with ribbons, fabric scraps, flowers, etc.

Food and Serving

  • Fondue (chocolate or cheese)
  • Smoothie bar (bring in blenders and fruit, etc.)
  • Ice cream bar
  • Summer foods such as smore’s, watermelon, fruit or garden salads

Photo Sources

  • Want the photo used for the page title of this theme?  Find the original at Unsplash here.
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Thanks for stopping in.  Please leave any extra ideas for this flip flop theme in the comments.  What’s your favorite type of get-together for summer?

Creative blessings,
Julia

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