Retreat for parents of missionaries seeks to encourage, ‘build each other up’

The National Parent Retreat, recently hosted by the International Mission Board, brought 148 parents of IMB missionaries together for a time of encouragement and connection.

Laura Harrell, the IMB’s director of alumni and advocate engagement, said her hope for the weekend was grounded in the retreat’s theme verse, “Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing,” 1 Thessalonians 5:11.

“We pray that when you depart this place on Sunday, you will have experienced encouragement just as you have encouraged someone else,” Harrell said during the March 20–23 event.

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