Contacting Holden Village

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Holden Village is located in north central Washington state in a remote area of the Cascade Mountains above Lake Chelan. Holden Village has no physical telephone lines and cellular devices do not work in the Railroad Creek valley. Email is the preferred method of communicating with the Village, by directing your message to the appropriate areas listed here.

Before contacting the Village for information, we invite you to view our list of frequently asked questions. Most common questions about Holden are addressed there. If your question is not addressed, we invite you to contact the following folks for more information:

For registration and visiting questions, contact the registrar at
registrar@holdenvillage.org

For staffing questions, contact the staff coordinators at
staffing@holdenvillage.org

For questions about worship, contact
pastor@holdenvillage.org

For questions about events and sessions, contact
program@holdenvillage.org

For questions about partnership building, including Partners in Ministry and sabbaticals, contact
directors@holdenvillage.org

For questions about giving to Holden, contact
development@holdenvillage.org

For questions about this Web site, contact
webi@holdenvillage.org

Due to slow bandwidth and occasional power outages, there may be some delay in e-mail response times. We are grateful for your patience.

United States Postal Mail

Holden Village
HC 0 Box 2
Chelan, WA 98816-9769

Postal Mail is delivered daily except on Sundays and holidays during the summertime. From October 1 to May 15, mail is delivered three times a week. If you are going to be staying at Holden, the Village post office will hold your mail; the date of your arrival should be on the envelope.

Good Courage : Holden Reflections

“Oh child, let’s get to work.” By Hayley Dennison

Feb. 10, 2012 – “That’s interesting … That’s really interesting,” I said in response to her, my friend, who was telling me, “I don’t believe in God.” This occurred three weeks ago up on the Goat Trail. For me this situation may have been similar to what my sister-in-law talks about when she tells this [...]

A Place Apart, a Place Eternal – 02/03/2012

I read this week in the Village Voice an invitation to share “Holden Stories.” I’d like to use Matins this morning to tell part of ours. I learned on Monday from the J-term students that Holden’s original name was Holden Village: A Place Apart. When life up this mountain includes power outages due to avalanche [...]

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