Thrive knows the importance of preparation to successfully serve the Thrive retreat attendees. The intentional ways the staff prepares the volunteers for the spiritual, emotional, and physical refreshment of global workers comes from years of expe...

This morning the 37 women who have chosen to volunteer their time gathered together for our first time of praise, prayer, and preparation for this Thrive retreat to serve women serving cross-culturally. We’re all different in ages, stages of life,...

As volunteers came together for a debriefing, there was an opportunity to acknowledge each person's gifts and how the Holy Spirit used those gifts in serving the volunteers. There was time to verbalize what had been learned about global women, the...

After disembarking the ship, the volunteers reconvened at the hotel to begin debriefing our retreat experience. We spent the day learning to process everything we had seen and heard and how to tell our story.