Retreat Activities

Worship, Retreats, Workshops, Art, Dance, Nature, Prayer

Sunday Services

Devotional Services are held each Sunday at 10:45 a.m. in the Church of the Holy Quest. Worship begins with music performed by our voice choir, guided meditation and prayer and is followed by an inspirational spoken message.

Major Retreats

Major Retreats are held annually during the holy festivals of Christmas, Easter, Michaelmas, and the summer equinox. These 3-day festivals include devotional services and activities honoring the Living Christ and celebrating the Angelic and Nature Kingdoms. Friday night's service typically includes handbell and voice choirs, sacred dance, communion, and an inspirational spoken message. Saturday's offerings may feature a guided meditation, artistic program or workshop, nature walk, and fellowship. The retreat concludes Sunday morning with inspirational spoken word, music and sacred dance.

Personal Retreats

Personal Retreats can be scheduled for sincere seekers to experience communion with God, spiritual renewal, and to study and worship with us. Questhaven offers a beautiful, quiet setting and an atmosphere of devotion that lifts retreatants into the Presence of the Eternal. Come prepared to explore your own retreat program. You can use your hours purposefully by attending regular meditation and prayer periods, studying, and taking nature walks on numerous trails in the peace and privacy of these consecrated grounds. Questhaven’s ministers are happy to join in fellowship with retreatants to explore together the teachings of Christian mysticism.

Academy Workshops

Academy Workshops offer many opportunities to learn more about the way of Christian mysticism, discipleship, finding God in nature, healing, meditation, prayer, and the arts. Each year there are new and expanded classes and workshops conducted at the new Academy Training Center. Questhaven Academy has existed in its formative stage since the founding of Questhaven Retreat in 1940. It is wholly dedicated to the purpose of preparing and training individuals to follow the way of discipleship to Christ.

Artistic Expression

Artistic Expression in the form of sacred dance, visual arts, music and writing is encouraged at Questhaven to enrich the worship experience and understanding of spiritual creativity. Questhaven artists create and discover images of beauty and the sacred in nature, providing glimpses into inner landscapes and making soul connections with representatives of the Angelic Kingdom. The power of great music opens sensitivities into the Inner worlds. Questhaven voice and handbell choirs ring out their joyous praises to God. Through creative movement the sacred dancers glorify God, as have temple dancers from ages past. Our offering reflects that of the Angels as they continually praise God though this universal language of light and power.

Prayer & Healing

Prayer Work for world and individual circumstances is practiced here. We invite you to join us in linking with other "pray-ers" to form a beautiful chain of energy encircling the world, blessing and transforming world circumstances, and to pray for individuals in need of healing and guidance. If you desire prayers for healing or guidance and would like to be added to our weekly prayer list, please contact us.

Ministry Services

Ministry Services are available for Weddings, Christenings, Memorials and other activities in addition to the regular Sunday Services and Workshops. The ministry at Questhaven Retreat focuses on each individual's relationship with God and our Lord Christ. Sunday services aim to enlighten our inner senses and strengthen our character to the purpose of our existence. Not only do the ministers speak regularly and organize workshops, they offer a number of services for The Christward Ministry along with many other dedicated souls in the congregation.

Questhaven Retreat is dedicated to serving one's vital need to prayerfully repledge themselves. Here, in the quiet haven of peaceful hills, individuals from all walks of life may come to reconsecrate themselves to God and Christ, and find answers to their innermost quest. Sunday Services 10:45am.

Holy Quest Courses

The Holy Quest courses are offered throughout the year as a three-day course based on the teachings of Questhaven's founder, Flower A. Newhouse. These courses are designed to lead you to the discovery of a way of life that opens you to empowered living, spiritual awakenment, and your highest purpose in God’s Plan of Life.

Classes are interactive with hands-on and follow-up activities, course guides, a certificate of completion, and a CD of Flower A. Newhouse leading a guided Meditation aligning the seven bodies (Holy Quest I only). Questhaven ministers teach all courses. Fee: $225.00 (includes accommodations and meals). Courses are taken sequentially. See Announcements for upcoming dates.

Holy Quest I: Flower A. Newhouse; Christian Mysticism; Our Sevenfold Bodies; Christian Discipleship; Angels Who Guide our Lives.

Holy Quest II: The Seven Aspects of God; The Historical Jesus and as Lord Emmanuel the Living Christ; The Seven Rays; The Power of Thought.

Holy Quest III: Meditation and Prayer; Inner Worlds and Inner Perception; Masters and Initiation; Angels of Nature.

Holy Quest IV: The theme for this series is Our Call to God. It is a culmination of what has been learned throughout the series and provides inspirational ways of living the life of discipleship.

Announcements

Thank you to all who participated and helped to create a beautiful, and deeply poignant Easter Retreat.

Another Movie Night will be held on May 10th. Location to be determined.

Service Calendar

MAY

May 4 Footholds of Character: The Hidden Diamond of Humility, Anne Hubbell

May 11 Spiritual Application: Spiritual Opportunities of Marriage, Rev. Blake Isaac

May 18 The Holy Spirit-Our Comforter and Revealer, Lucy Wold

May 25 The Holy Spirit-Our Companion at the Crossroads, Rev. Jonathan Wiltshire

JUNE

June 1 The Holy Spirit-Its Mystical and Practical Influence Upon Us, Rev. Elizabeth Wood

June 8 Footholds of Character: The Spiritual Virtue of Courage, Police Lt. Dan Willis

June 15 Spiritual Application: Man's Search to Find a Father, Rev. Myrna Triggs

VERNAL RETREAT-June 20, 21, 22
Friday 7:30 p.m. : Nature Slides with Music, Prose, and Dance
Saturday 9:00 a.m. : Healing Through Nature and Music
Sunday 10:45 a.m. : Healing Through the Arts: A Spiritual Experience,
Rev. Jonathan Wiltshire

June 29 Mysticism-The Search for and Recovery of Oneness with God, Rev. Blake Isaac

JULY

July 6 The Initiate Thomas Paine-Instigator of Independence, Rev. Phyllis Isaac

July 13 Modes of Mysticism-Meditation as a Tool for Growth, Rev. Elizabeth Wood

July 20 Modes of Mysticism-Glimpses into the Infinite as We Walk along Nature's Path, Miara Wiltshire

July 27 Modes of Mysticism-The Poet's Connection to the Eternal, Rev. Blake Isaac

AUGUST

August 3 Footholds of Character: Integrity-A Jewel in the Crown of Mastery, Rev. Jonathan Wiltshire

August 10 Spiritual Application: A Beautiful Mind, Dr.Rebecca Nixon

Ongoing Activities

Meditations are held on Wednesday evenings (2nd and 4th) in Chapelito at 7:30 p.m. Everyone is welcome to join in this time of reverent attunement that is led by Jean Michalewicz.

Wisdom Classes, led by The Reverend Blake Isaac, are held on alternating Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m. in Chapelito.

Pranic Healing Clinics are conducted by Mary Clark, Ph.D., on the first Sunday of each month in the Academy from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Servers in Action Days are on the first Saturday of the month from 9 a.m. until noon.

Classes studying The Christward Ministry teachings include:
Mondays: (2nd and 4th) at 7:30 p.m. in Oceanside
Wednesdays: (1st and 3rd) at 1:30 p.m. in the Questhaven Academy