2025 HCI Leadership Retreat

Enjoy our retreat videos below, and we encourage you and some friends to experience these six sessions together. After each teaching, there are exercises in our retreat workbook you can do (purchase through the button below) and then process the time in your small group.

Session Two: The Depths of God’s Love by Pastor Antony Njoroge

In order to lean into God’s loving arms, we have to see him as a loving Father. Learn what his love actually means in our lives and how it changes everything.

The exercise for this session are in the workbook on pages 28-30.

Day Two

Session Three: Coming Closer by Betsy Stalcup, Ph.D.

What does it mean to be secretly attached to God? Learn about the four attachment styles and how it effect our relationship with God, and others.

The exercises for this session are in the workbook on pages 47-49.

Session Four: Redemption in the Midst of Disaster by The Rev. Brian Smith

Our God is a redeeming God. Watch testimonies from community members on how they weathered the storms of life, with God, through a hurricane in Florida last year.

The exercises for this session are in the workbook on pages 55-57.

Day Three

Session Five: Learning to Love Like Jesus by Betsy Stalcup, Ph.D.

As Christians, we believe that our purpose in life is to grow more and more like Jesus, who epitomizes love. Throughout our life we want to learn to love as he loved—to love everyone we encounter as he loves them. In this session, let the Lord transform your heart and renew your mind to love the lovable and unloveable alike.

The exercises for this session are in the workbook on pages 66-73.

Session Six: Living in the Goodness of God Every Day by David Takle, MDiv

Finish the retreat strong with this session emphasizing the daily care of your soul, your relationship and your participation in the Kingdom.

The exercises for this session are in the workbook on pages 80-81.