The food sounds OK, but the rest of it sounds boring as shit. And damned if I can figure out what it would have to do with church. Did we just discover that Jesus wore camo and drove a Humvee into Jerusalem? 
Wine + some sort of craft. Wine and painting. Wine and scrapbooking. Wine and knitting. Wine and pottery. And on and on.
Book clubs seem to be a very female-dominated activity. Personally, I’m not aware of any male-oriented book clubs in my area (though there may be; I’m not omniscient). But the idea of drinking coffee and discussing Oprah’s latest book became a thing in the 90s and has been a hard bug to squash.
That’s why I was wondering about the necessity to “retreat.” When I think of a retreat, I think of an event designed to get away from material distractions, (and possibly the distractions of the opposite sex). I mean really–that’s the whole point of the term. Spiritual fellowship might call for such a thing, but just playing with toys? I don’t see the point.
I was wondering about that too. If I’m at an all-men event, it usually involves a lot less Humvees and a lot more board games.
Some of the games involve guns, though. Usually shooting at zombies or Cylons.
My wife has been to a couple weekend events that, while perhaps not “Women Exclusive!” were in all reality, women exclusive. At least one of them had someone suggesting their boyfriend might come along and the rest of the group doing the “eeehhhh…” thing until it was agreed that he’d stay back at the hotel for the events. One was for bellydancing and was a planned event with workshops and seminars covering not only dance but empowerment and sisterhood and female spirituality and woo like which rocks align your aura to prevent anxiety. Another was fan group related for a book series and was much more casual, pretty much being drinking, gossip, some tours and karaoke.
For the record, nothing in the OP seems really odd to me unless it was an event planned around some other activity like playing chess. But planning an overnight event for a bunch of guys seems like it’d naturally steer you towards “Manly he-man” activities involving meat, beer and fire if only because most guys are cool spending an evening eating grilled meat, drinking beer and playing with fire.
There used to be a spring kayaking/canoeing event that took place the weekend before the opening of PA’s trout season. It was a men only thing. It started out with 6 guys. The year I started doing it we had 80 guys. The 14th and final year there were 135 guys. Temperature the years I participated were between 28 and 68 degrees F.
The year we disbanded was the year someones wife made a stink about wanting to join in. It had become too big, there were more injuries each year (including some serious injuries), and the coordinators had had enough. The guy whose wife complained believes to this day that we all hate him.
closest place I’ve ever been to an all-woman retreat was the fifth floor of Mandarake in Akihabara, Tokyo. (Fifth is devoted all the comics and doujinshi aimed at the ladies). Of course, the fourth floor, the rest of the building, and much of Akiba itself is fairly dude-centric, so I guess if you want gender-segregated experiences Akihabara’s got you covered.
Now Ikebukuro - Ikebukuro is ALL about the ladies.
The last gender-segregated “retreat” I was on was Girl Scout camp when I was ten.