Welcome again to the Thrive Retreat Blog, where you can follow along with our retreat volunteers and attendees throughout their retreat experience! If you haven’t already, we’d love for you to join us for our 30 Days of Prayer for the 2025 Argenti...

We volunteers have been changed by this week in Cape Town. One woman spent her childhood in an African country and has longed for many years to return in a ministry capacity. This was her time. During a debrief exercise where we used photos to exp...

The volunteers spend these final days in Cape Town having some fun, as well as debriefing our experiences and preparing to tell our stories when we return to the United States.

Today, we spent some time reflecting on the mighty deeds that God has done over the past few days. One introvert confessed that she was reluctant to come to a gathering of women she didn’t know. However, the environment established through prayer ...