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Life Enriching Programs

Music Week - Discover Your Magic Through Music

April 13 - 18; Please register by April 1

Improve Your Health and Well Being

Singing provides a boost of oxygen and releases feel-good chemicals in your brain to improve mood and memory. Songwriting improves your well being by challenging your creativity, helping you clarify your narrative, and channeling your focus. Playing an instrument stimulates the brain and offers a lifetime of continued learning.

Build and Strengthen Community

Sharing songs within a community builds trust and develops skills. Singing with others is scientifically proven to be a quick way to build community and unity. Music is a reason to gather, and a method of focusing a community.

Create Change In Your World

Bringing your music into the wider world is a way to share perspective and create momentum. Widening our circles in song brings opportunity to attend to a movement or help an existing need. Music adds joy to events and coalesces people around an issue.

Friction Farm

Christine Stay & Aidan Quinn

Award winning songwriters

Kerrville New Folk Finalists

Falcon Ridge Emerging Artists

International touring artists

www.frictionfarm.com

Kiya Heartwood

Multi Instrumentalist

Critically acclaimed songwriter

Main Stage at S. Fla Folk Festival

Formerly of Wishing Chair, Stealing Horses

Minister at UU Brazos Valley

www.kiyaheartwood.com

Matt Watroba

Community Song leader

Performer at Old Songs, Fox Valley Folk, The Ark

Founder of Common Chord

Folk DJ Hall of Fame

www.mattwatroba.net

Join us in sprucing up

The Mountain!

Support the Mountain Mission
Renew old connections and make new ones
Be nurtured by this special place

4 Days/3 Nights - $75

3 Days/2 Nights - $50

Click on the Blue Ghost Firefly for more information & to register

Click here to reserve your spot as a camper, youth leader, or counselor

Your contributions now will support life enriching programs for youth and adults. Click here to consider the options, thank you!

Individuals and organizations not only made the following donations, they made a difference for The Mountain!

Phillippa Mead (Guest Services) and Ted Rosensweig (Facilities) modeling our new golf cart. Ted coordinated with Appalachian Golf Cars, trading in three old non-functional golf carts for a brand new one. This is our second golf cart, both are used daily and appreciated by many Mountain staff.

The webcam is being installed on the top of the lodge. From our website, you will have a variety of views of The Mountain. Thank you to Chet Pletzky for providing the webcam and to Mark Gramlich for the installation.

Stay tuned for date to go live!

Message from Mountain Supporters

Linda and Ed Oaksford

The Mountain Retreat and Learning Center came into our lives shortly after we moved to Tallahassee, Fl and joined the UU Church of Tallahassee. We were first introduced to the Mountain during a Congregational retreat, where we used the wonderful assets of the Mountain facilities and phenomenal outdoor setting.

After that things were pretty much driven by our children. Having a time span of 13 years between our first and third child, our family was thereby guaranteed many years of Youth Cons and summer camp experiences that ranged from being campers to being camp counselors.

Those memorable experiences were punctuated by more congregational retreats and other special events, most notably Climate Justice Conferences, Thanksgiving celebrations, Fall Institutes (SUUFI) and many more activities that allowed us to share some of our closely held beliefs regarding sustainability and food system recalibration.

Now that we are empty nesters, our engagement with the Mountain has been on a more relaxed paced where we look forward to several days at the Mountain for our own personal retreats where we take advantage of the unique ecosystem at the Mountain - hiking and relaxing while forest bathing on the trails surrounding the Mountain. The Mountain also provides us with a convenient stopover where we can spend a night and charge our car up enroute to visit friends and family.

Regardless of the roles the Mountain has played in our family’s lives it has always been a cherished one and certainly one well worth our time and money to shepherd it on into the future. So please think long range when contributing your time and money to the Mountain. It’s an investment that couldn’t be better spent.

Join Our Mountain Team

Bookkeeper

The Bookkeeper manages the organization’s day to day financial operations, including processing payroll, accounts payable and receivable, budgeting, production of financial statements and reports, and advising the senior management team on financial decisions. The Bookkeeper is responsible for monitoring and maintaining internal controls, while overseeing financial systems and related compliance requirements. They maintain accounts and records of revenue, disbursements, expenses and tax payments, and oversee audit and filing of tax returns and other reports to government agencies.

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Upcoming Events and Programs

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Rise Up Rooted Women's Retreat - April 3rd - 6th

Music Week - April 13th - 18th

Volunteer Weekend - April 17th - 20th

Gay Spirit Visions - May 9th - 11th

Unitarian Universalist Womenspirit - May 14th - 18th

Homecoming - May 23rd - May 26th

MountainCamp - June 8th - July 19th

Intergenerational Camp - July 20th - 25th

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