Season of Listening · 2026

The ARC Retreat Community stewarded a vision of renewal for fifty years. Now that the ARC property has been sold, we are listening for how to forward our legacy.

Join us as we shape what comes next.

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What we hold

Action · Reflection · Celebration
ARC stands for
Action · Reflection · Celebration

Contemplative retreats offer time and space apart for the body, mind and spirit to rest, listen, pray, and renew. As a society, we have never been in greater need of this renewal.

Vision

A transformed world in which all people embrace and cultivate the spiritual nature of life through healthy, loving relationships with self, others, planet earth, and the Divine.

Mission

To serve individuals and groups seeking time apart for rest and spiritual renewal. An interspiritual retreat community embracing people in their full diversity, founded in the spirit of ecumenism.

Practice

Balancing Action, Reflection, and Celebration — connecting retreat to daily life so the journey inward inspires the journey outward, in the quest for harmony, peace, and justice.

Where we are

Listening together · 2026

The land that held ARC for fifty years was sold last fall. We are discerning how the impact ARC has had on many individuals can be carried forward. What we honor, complete, and support through ARC's remaining funds will follow the stirrings of those ARC has inspired and impacted — investing in ways that carry ARC's legacy forward, shaped by the very influence ARC has had on them.

ARC is poised to listen — broadly and deeply. We are engaging the community in this season — and invite you to contribute your voice to our discernment.

This season we practice letting go — trusting the seed of ARC to take root and flower through the vision and commitment of others it has inspired.

Beginning Saturday, August 15

Four Stories · Every Other Saturday

One story or memory every other Saturday — August 15 · August 29 · September 12 · September 26 — from Friends of ARC, longtime retreatants, the ARC Legacy Task Force, and guest writers. The first will be Ruth Halvorson reading from her writing on retreat. Four stories now, with more to come over the next year — stories that encourage the power of listening, retreat, silence, and contemplation.

Carrying the mission forward
ARC Legacy Fund
"ARC was created as a hospitable and welcoming place apart for individuals and groups to experience solitude and silence, guiding individuals into a deeper understanding of themselves, the world around them, and the God within."
— Ruth Halvorson

In October 2025, ARC sold the land and lodge that had fostered this community for nearly fifty years. What we carry forward now is the mission itself — through the creativity and commitment of everyone the seed of ARC has inspired. A fiscal agent and a Legacy Fund will be established this fall to steward ARC's remaining resources in a way consistent with what we hear during this Season of Listening. Sign-up updates are coming this Fall 2026. Sign up for ARC's email list →

Support our Season of Listening

Listen · Connect · Stay Involved

As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, ARC depends on the generosity of friends, retreatants, and supporters. Join our email list to hear when giving opens, and stay close to the community ARC continues to be.