The typical guest at The Retreat at Christmas Creek has caring family determined to find a place of sanctuary in a time of trouble, where there is encouragement, strength, faith and laughter, coupled with medical and spiritual intervention and training tools for life. Moreover, this caring family member can see untapped potential and giftings, and believes there is a hope and a direction and a future for this guest.

Most families describe guests as gifted individuals who have, for any number of reasons,lost their sense of self. Put simply, they have lost their purpose, their direction, their motivation, and, most often, their smile.

When they arrive, guests usually describe themselves as lost, unhappy, afraid, unable to do anything right, a failure, untrusting, tired, sorry, alone and helpless. The most common threads amongst guests are a sense of failure, a history of lashing out at those who love them most, and no way to make all right again.

Often these descriptions match one or several issues, many of which are described as follows: