Winter Events

Visiting the Village in the quiet winter months, you’ll enjoy crafts, conversations, snowshoeing, sledding, cross country skiing, and time to just be. Bring a book, or borrow one from the library. You can also check out the audio archive and listen to sessions from the past. Keep in mind the boat schedule is limited so check their Web site, www.ladyofthelake.com, when planning your dates.

Spring Events

• Hosted Holden Evening Prayer Services – April 1
  Celebrate Holden Village’s 50th Anniversary with Holden Evening Prayer in your home town, home church, or your home. Join with the Holden Village community worldwide singing Marty Haugen’s beloved setting of Holden Evening Prayer. To view a list of locations currently hosting a service, click here. This list will be updated regularly. To host a service in your community, contact Serena Giese webi@holdenvillage.org.
• Wilderness First Aid Course – April 13-16
  A two day first aid course hosted at Holden Village. This course covers a wide range of wilderness medicine topics for people who travel and work in the outdoors. For more information, click here. To register for this event, click here. Please indicate that you are registering for this event in the notes section of your reservation.
• Spring Work Week – April 22-29
  Spend a week at Holden Village helping the housekeeping and operations staff get ready for the spring and summer season. To volunteer for Spring Work Week, please contact staffing@holdenvillage.org.
• May Youth Weekends - May 19-21, 25-27, & 27-29
  Three retreat weekends for high school youth groups and their leaders. This year’s theme: Keep Church Weird. Click here for more information and registration.
• Living Liturgy: Worship and a Way of Life – June 4-8
  The week will take its shape from the four-fold pattern of the liturgy: Gathering, Word, Meal, Sending, and will include bible study, sessions on worship planning, liturgical theology, building leadership skills for musicians, and forming lay leaders. Join Susan Briehl, Marty Haugen, Mary Preus, Ben Stewart, and Tom Witt in this special week of Holden programming. Click here for more on Living Liturgy. Register as a regular Holden guest to take part in this event.
• Work Camp – June 10-17
  Every other summer or so, volunteers come to give a week of service to the Village. Work Camp Volunteers get to enjoy summer in the Village and help with special projects, making Holden an even better place to be! To volunteer for Work Camp, please contact staffing@holdenvillage.org.

Summer Events

This summer’s theme: “Where the River Flows, Life Abounds!” Ezekiel 47:9. Holden will be celebrating its 50th Anniversary with festivities taking place throughout the summer.