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What is Rolling Ridge Study Retreat Community?
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Rolling Ridge Study Retreat is an ecumenical Christian community located on 1400 acres of
wilderness near Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. Current facilities include a retreat house, meditation
shelter, art cottage, and four staff houses. Retreat events focus on spirituality, biblical studies, meditative arts,
earthkeeping, peacemaking and community.
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Upcoming Events at Rolling Ridge Study Retreat Community
- Befriending Silence
May 18-19, 2012
6:00 pm Friday - 4:00 pm Saturday
Online Followup: May 28-June 22
Final Reflection Day: June 23, 2012
Retreat House
Rolling Ridge Study Retreat
- Girls' Art
June 15 - July 4, 2012 (dates in process)
Still Point Mountain Retrat
Rolling Ridge Study Retreat
- Quiet Days Apart - Summer?s Delight and Gratitude for the Ordinary: A year of new mini-retreats for 2012 with Trish Stefanik at Priest Field Pastoral Center
June 30, 2012 (also planned for August 18, October 20, December 1)
Priest Field Pastoral Center in West Virginia
Rolling Ridge Study Retreat
- Praying with the Psalms
July 12-15, 2012
Thursday 6:30 pm - Sunday 1:00 pm
Still Point Mountain Retreat and Retreat House
Rolling Ridge Study Retreat
- Fourth Annual Pilgrimage of Peace: Join in a daily rhythm of sung prayer, silence, and common work
August 10-26, 2012
Still Point Mountain Retreat
Rolling Ridge Study Retreat
- Quiet Days Apart - Endings and Beginnings, a Sacred Rhythm of Life: A year of new mini-retreats for 2012 with Trish Stefanik at Priest Field Pastoral Center
August 18, 2012 (also planned for October 20, December 1)
Priest Field Pastoral Center in West Virginia
Rolling Ridge Study Retreat
- Labor Day Work Day
September 3, 2012
Retreat House
Rolling Ridge Study Retreat
- Wilderness Intensive with Jim Hall and Cheryl Hellner
September 28-30
Retreat House
Rolling Ridge Study Retreat
- Quiet Days Apart - Learning in Autumn to Trust and Let Go to God: A year of new mini-retreats for 2012 with Trish Stefanik at Priest Field Pastoral Center
October 20, 2012 (also planned for December 1)
Priest Field Pastoral Center in West Virginia
Rolling Ridge Study Retreat
- Haiku as Spiritual Practice
November 2-4, 2012
Still Point Mountain Retreat and Retreat House
Rolling Ridge Study Retreat
- Quiet Days Apart - Stilling Our Hearts, Making Room for Christ: A year of new mini-retreats for 2012 with Trish Stefanik at Priest Field Pastoral Center
December 1, 2012
Priest Field Pastoral Center in West Virginia
Rolling Ridge Study Retreat
- The Gift of Story: An Advent Retreat at Rolling Ridge
December 7-9, 2012
Retreat House and Still Point Mountain Retreat
Rolling Ridge Study Retreat
Retreat Facilities Available for Rent
The Retreat House is a six bedroom retreat cabin for groups of 12 to 16 persons. Facilities include a living/meeting room, a dining area to seat up to 20, a fully furnished kitchen, a library meeting room, and shared shower baths. Accommodations are modestly comfortable with a rustic simplicity. The building is heated with an attractive woodstove; is well insulated and ventilated but not air conditioned.
Still Point is a four bedroom mountain cabin with capacity to accommodate groups of six to eight persons. It includes a fully furnished kitchen with complementing dining and living room areas. Still Point is an inviting retreat space for families, individuals, and couples.
The River Cabin is a two bedroom riverfront cabin with capacity
to accommodate an individual, a couple, or a small family.. It includes a small
kitchen and dining area.
Deerspring is one of our community houses with a lovely guest
room, available for private retreats.
The Niles Cabin is a retreat space provided by the Friends
Wilderness Center, and is available for overnight guest space.
The FLOC Lodge is available for groups up to 18, and is provided
by For Love of Children, one of the user groups on the mountian.
Availability - The Retreat House is generally
quite available for weekday reservations, but much less likely to
be available for weekend reservations. The other facilities are
more available for weekend scheduling. Click here for
scheduling availability.
Services - Generally guests need to bring their own food provisions and bedding. Lodging includes use of kitchen and dining and living room facilities. By special arrangement staff is available to provide retreat leadership for groups and directed retreat experiences for individuals. Guests are asked to clean the facilities and leave as found.
Activities - Rolling Ridge Study Retreat Community is located on restful wooded foothills of the Blue Ridge. Hikes and meditative walks are popular guest activities. A distinctively beautiful 10-sided meditation shelter is open for prayer and meditation any time of the day. A labyrinth is popular for walking meditation. An art cottage is available for doing art related activities. Spotting deer, wild turkeys, pileated wood peckers, and other wildlife is a common delight.
Fees - Fees are negotiable and modest. Generally weekday
group rates are $25 per person per day while weekends are $35 per person for
the weekend.
Quote of the Day
Why I Wake Early by Mary Oliver
(01/05/2007)
Hello, sun in my face.
Hello, you who make the morning
and spread it over the fields
and into the faces of the tulips
and the nodding morning glories,
and into the windows of, even, the
miserable and the crotchety - best preacher that ever was,
dear star, that just happens
to be where you are in the universe
to keep us from ever-darkness,
to ease us with warm touching,
to hold us in the great hands of light -
good morning, good morning, good morning. Watch, now, how I start the day
in happiness, in kindness.
Source: Why I Wake Early
Provided by Inward/Outward
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