Greetings!
This Advent, we wrestle with what it means for the eternal to enter the temporal. The Village community practices many daily rhythms of preparation and anticipation.
We are planning meals, ordering food, decorating the Dining Hall with cedar garlands and folded paper stars, hand-crafting ornaments for our Jesse Tree, rehearsing holiday plays and music, washing quilts, and stomping snow paths, as we prepare to welcome guests for Christmas & New Year’s. We invite you to join us in the practice of creating a Jesse Tree with handmade ornaments that tell the story of the history leading up to Christ's birth.
The spirit of preparation extends to welcoming college students for J-Term and organizing Holden’s summer program and recruiting staff, and all the other things that it takes to run this Village.
Ponder with us on how to be awake to God's loving presence calling us in our daily life, singing to us as one of us, and drawing us into practices of justice that can only be taken up with human hands.
Faithfully,
Stacy Kitahata, Mark Bach, and Kathie Bach
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Visit this Winter and Spring |
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Registration is currently open for January 31 - April 22, 2021.
Bring your spirit of adventure, pack your sense of humor, and prepare for snow in all its glorious variations!
Visit during the early spring to experience the emerging changes in the Railroad Creek Valley.
We welcome you to a cozy, relational, joyful, and quieter time in the Village.
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Join us for a weekend of rest, release, and abundance as it relates to our summer 2022 theme, Jubilee.
February 4-7, 2022
This is a phenomenal opportunity to form new relationships, and join in conversation with other women!
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Holden Village applies an expansive understanding of women and welcomes trans women and non-binary folks. Attendees only need to identify as women in a way that is significant to them.
Enjoy teaching sessions, group conversation, end-of-day reflections, crafting, and encountering the outdoors including cross country skiing (snow permitting) and snowshoeing.
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While Holden Village is currently covered in over two feet of snow, it's already time to start thinking ahead to summer and beyond.
Registration opens on January 4, 2022 at 8am Pacific Time for May 1, 2022 - January 1, 2023.
Come to the Village in the summer for engaging teaching faculty sessions, phenomenal hiking, creative art classes, music-making, daily rhythms of liturgy, activities for children and youth, and more!
The cohort model from last summer was well received so we're bringing it back with additional flexibility. Enjoy building community with everyone who arrives for the week on Monday and stay for either three, five, or seven days.
Summer Cohort Season 2022
- Cohorts begin on June 13, 2022 and end September 5, 2022
- There will be 12 weeks of summer cohorts (the final week begins on August 29, 2022)
- All arrivals on Mondays
- Options for length of stay and departure day: A three-night stay (depart on Thursday), a five-night stay (depart on Saturday) or a seven-night stay (depart the following Monday)
- Teaching Faculty schedule to be announced
- Limited space available & all programming in Spanish or bilingual August 1-6, 2022 (Abriendo Caminos week)
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Do you enjoy cooking for yourself, friends, or family? Are you hungry to learn more? Volunteer as a Head Cook for a year for the opportunity to grow your culinary and leadership skills and offer hospitality to the Holden community! Learn to bake bread for hundreds of people, create seasonal dishes with local produce, and master the art of creatively using leftovers! Head Cooks provide vital leadership in the Holden Kitchen to promote an atmosphere that balances grace and humor with the need for efficiency and timely food production. Please share this opportunity with people you know who may be interested!
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Holden is well known for being cared for by a cadre of enthusiastic volunteers. Did you know there are also a number of employee positions open that require mid-to-high level experience and expertise, such as HR Manager and Program Manager? Please join us and spread the word!
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Holden Village is grateful for all of the ways people show generosity!
Holden's wish lists have been updated with new items needed for 2022 including folding saws for trails crew, spray bottles for housekeeping, pans for the kitchen, books for the library, and much more.
Add Holden Village to your gift list and support hospitality and programming in this unique wilderness place!
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Join Villagers in the Advent practice of a Jesse Tree! This tree starts out as a large bare branch and becomes filled with handmade ornaments that tell the story of the history leading up to Christ's birth.
Ornaments can be crafted from by needle felting, woodworking, items collected in nature, repurposed office supplies and more - the ideas are endless. While the number of days in Advent are dwindling, please share in this practice with what time we have left until Christmas.
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"So yes, we can pray with our bodies. Yes, we can pray with our imagination, we can pray through our feelings and not be overcome by them. All of us, all of our being can show up, be welcomed in the Spirit."
Christine Betz Hall is a Quaker, educator, retreat facilitator, and spiritual director who served on teaching faculty at Holden this past summer. She founded and facilitates Way of the Spirit—a prayer and study program for growth in spiritual discernment from the wisdom of the Quaker tradition. Her contemplative, experiential approach assists others to live more fully into their relationships and their spiritual giftedness.
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All individuals pictured have been fully vaccinated for COVD-19.
Reference herein to any specific commercial products or services does not necessarily constitute or imply its
endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by Holden Village.
PHOTOS/VIDEOS: Anny Berntsen, Hannah Lauber, Callie Mabry, and Elizabeth Humphreys
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