Every Pastor Needs a Pastor.
Let Marble Retreat Help.
Bringing healing, hope and restoration to those in Christian Ministry.
Which path is right for you?
Counseling Intensives
This 8-day experience is designed for pastors, missionaries, and ministry couples in crisis. If you’re facing burnout, relational strain, ministry fatigue, or any struggle you are facing, our Christian counselors provide a proven path to clarity, healing, and hope. We can help you recover and thrive again in your life and ministry.
You don’t have to wait until everything falls apart. If you or your marriage are struggling, let us walk with you now.
Soul Care Retreats
Shaping the Heart of a Leader retreat is more than just a retreat—this 8-day journey is a spiritual and emotional reset for ministry leaders. Through guided reflection, rest, and community, you’ll renew your connection with God, deepen your resilience, and optimize your potential in life and leadership.
This retreat offers more than a break from ministry, but a breakthrough for your soul.
Since 1974, Marble Retreat has provided a safe place for transformation
and life giving hope to over 5,000 participants from around the world.
What To Expect
How does Marble Retreat Work?
Step 1
Let Us Introduce Ourselves
Since 1974, Marble Retreat has walked alongside more than 5,000 pastors, missionaries, and ministry leaders, offering a safe place for healing, renewal, and restoration. We understand the unique weight of spiritual leadership—and we exist so you don’t have to carry it alone.
Step 2
The Right Track For You
Whether you’re facing a personal or marital crisis, burnout, or simply need space to reconnect with God and rediscover your calling, Marble Retreat offers two trusted pathways to help you thrive—both in your calling and your soul. View our Counseling Intensives and our Soul Care Retreats to see which is right for you.
Step 3
Some Important Details
Counseling sessions are limited to eight people total. Session dates are subject to change on occasion, so please call to confirm a reservation prior to booking flights! When making travel arrangements, plan to arrive Tuesday late afternoon and depart on Thursday morning of the following week. Cost and scholarship information can be found here.
Step 4
Express Your Interest
Once you have found the right track and the dates that work for you, please contact our staff directly. They can help to assess your need and schedule your retreat session by phone or email. All communication is strictly confidential.
Step 5
Confirmation & Preparation
Once our team has confirmed your spot, you can make travel arrangements. Read about the accommodations, the retreat staff you will be working with, and view our FAQ for some helpful information.
Step 6
Let the Retreat Begin
No matter what season you’re in—crisis, transition, or simply in need of rest—Marble Retreat is here for you. Let us help you recover and thrive again in your life and ministry.
Our team is called and equipped to care for those who care for others.
We’ve helped thousands of leaders restore their marriages, reignite their calling, and find a healthier rhythm for ministry.
Let us help you do the same.
Your soul matters.
Your ministry depends on it.
Learn more about marble retreat and our foundations
We Believe In
THE DEITY AND HUMANITY OF JESUS
His sinless life, and his miracles; his atoning death and his bodily resurrection provide the only ground for justification, forgiveness, and salvation.
ONE GOD
Creator and Sustainer of all things, Who exists in three Persons — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
THE ONGOING WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
In convicting, empowering, comforting, and guiding believers.
THE BIBLE
As the inspired revelation of God and final authority for living out our faith.
THE UNIQUE AND INVALUABLE WORTH
Of each individual based entirely on God’s love and grace.
“Marble Retreat, through its ministry to us, affected the world.”
Our team is called and equipped to care for those who care for others.
We’ve helped thousands of leaders restore their marriages, reignite their calling, and find a healthier rhythm for ministry.
You don’t have to wait until everything falls apart. Let us walk with you now.
Counseling Intensives for any circumstance
Marble Retreat’s 8-day program schedule consists of an effective combination of individual/couples and group counseling, led by Christian counselors in a confidential setting of recreation and rest. As an interdenominational Christian counseling center, Marble Retreat provides a doorway to healing for those who are tired and hurting.
Please contact us; we are here to help.
Marble Retreat: a Counseling Center for Pastors, Missionaries, and other Christian leaders
Here are a few of the circumstances that bring folks to Marble Retreat:
- Dealing with depression and burnout, compassion fatigue, trauma on the mission field
- Grief, anxiety, major transitions, and other emotionally taxing experiences
- Marital conflict (restoration following an affair, communication problems, etc.)
- Vocational (forced termination, mid-life crisis, thinking of leaving ministry, etc.)
- Sexual problems, including pornography use
Marble Retreat can help you recover and thrive again in your life and ministry.
This retreat offers more than a break from ministry, but a breakthrough for your soul.
Soul Care Retreats for any pastor
For over 50 years, Marble Retreat has been a sanctuary of healing for pastors and ministry leaders in crisis. But what about those who aren’t in crisis—yet feel the weight of fatigue, isolation, or spiritual dryness? Too many leaders wait until it’s too late.
Shaping the Heart of the Leader is our new 8-day retreat designed to meet ministry leaders before the breaking point—offering space for rest, restoration, and growth in the breathtaking Colorado Rockies.
Come Weary. Leave Whole.
Whether you’re preparing for sabbatical, wrestling with burnout, or simply need to re-center your calling—this experience was created for you.
Scholarships Available
Please be aware as you consider our services, that Marble Retreat has a longstanding policy of turning no one away because of need! As you prayerfully consider the services of Marble Retreat, be aware that we are here to help and will do our utmost to make it possible for you to attend.
Making a donation: Your gifts to Marble Retreat Christian Counseling help continue our tradition of excellence in helping to bring healing and restore hope to those in vocational Christian ministry through brief, intensive, Christ-centered psychotherapy. All gifts are tax-deductible to the full extent permitted by law.
Ready to make a payment or donation?
Please email our office for the overall cost of the program: ministrycare@marbleretreat.org. If needed, make a payment here.
