Twenty-four women serving in sixteen countries, traveling to Melbourne from five different continents. 

Ask any seasoned Thrive volunteer and she will tell you that volunteer training for the retreat is a cut above. 

From across the U.S. we came—hailing from Pennsylvania to Washington, Minnesota to Texas, with a handful of heartland states in between. It took, on average, thirty travel hours for each woman to arrive in Melbourne, Australia, the site of this ye...

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 Austral...