An Angelic ministration takes place in a church not usually present in other places.
Flower A. Newhouse, Here Are Your Answers, Vol III

Retreat Activities

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

The Church of the Holy QuestSunday 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.

Academy Meditation BenchPersonal 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.

The AcademyAcademy 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.

Candlelighting ServicePrayer & 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.

The LabyrinthLabyrinth Walks

Walk our labyrinth, an ancient symbol that relates to wholeness, a metaphor for life's purposeful journey, an archetype with which we can have a direct experience with God. Bring to mind a prayer or spiritual question to contemplate during the walk to the center. Reaching the center, pause to reflect, pray, listen for an answer or for deeper revelation. Now begin the return journey. Pray or reflect further. Upon exiting, use further reflection, prayer, or journaling to absorb the experience.

Nature Walks

Questhaven offers a dozen nature trails that wander through chapparel and oak-lined canyons reaching woodland sanctuaries and hilltops offering panoramic mountain and ocean views. On a mountain trail or in a canyon, practice fire necessary qualities: attention, attunement, beholding, reception, and at-one-ment. Say "O God, I desire to find Thee everywhere. Let Thy treasures be opened to me and let my mind be laid open to Thee." When the heart is appreciative and the whole being is desirous of God, then the temples of nature open their doors and every voice of nature speaks to us of its own transcendent, God-filled purpose. [Trail Directory and Map...]

PanEuRhythmyPanEuRhythmy

PanEuRhythmy is a dance-exercise-meditation that opens us to the presence and power of Spirit within ourselves and the universe. The music and movements were created by the Bulgarian Christian Mystic Peter Deunov (Beinsa Douno) in the early 20th century. It is practiced throughout the world as a way to establish harmony with God, the Angelic hierarchies and the universe. Come and explore the mystery and spiritual significance of this sacred movement meditation, practiced daily at Questhaven near the Labyrinth.

Services and Retreats

  • Worship Service every Sunday at 10:45 a.m. in the Church of the Holy Quest
  • Easter, Christmas, Michaelmas and Vernal Retreats
  • Advent and Lenten Services (seasonal)
  • Masters' Silent Reteat in August

Classes and Groups

  • True North
  • Wisdom Teachings
  • Christward Lessons
  • Sunday school
  • Men's and Women's groups
  • Servers in Action
  • Vocal and Handbell choirs
  • Pranic Healing Clinics

Support Material

  • Inspiration eMail Newsletter
  • The Christward Ministry Publications
  • Guided Meditation CD's
  • Hundreds of Recorded Lectures by the Christian Mystic Flower A. Newhouse, and Psychologist Dr. Stephen Isaac, for rental or purchase
  • Weekly Podcasts of recent lectures
  • Spiritual research library

Ministry services

  • Weddings
  • House blessings
  • Memorial services
  • Baptisms
  • Christenings
  • Spiritual counseling
  • Prayer cordons
  • Animal blessings

Preparation for Easter Retreat

"Let the Eastertide currents flood into all of your bodies with their redeeming energies."
–Wellsprings of the Holy Quest

Through Lent to Resurection
Through Lent to Resurection

The Drama of Incarnation
The Drama of Incarnation

Wellsprings of the Holy Quest
Wellsprings of the Holy Quest
–The Inner Side of Easter

Christ's Past Present and Future Influence upon Us
Christ's Past Present and Future Influence upon Us
–528-2, 4/22/73
Emmanuel - God With Us
Emmanuel–God With Us
–389-1, 4/6/69
Easter's Meaning for Us
Easter's Meaning for Us
–303-1, 4/10/66

Preparation for Christmas Retreat

"To the Christian who is at least partially aware, the Nativity brings Christ into the Present. It renews our longing and endeavor to be Christ-born."
–Rev. Flower A. Newhouse

The Sacred Heart of Christmas
The Sacred Heart of Christmas
Wellsprings of the Holy Quest
Wellsprings of the Holy Quest
–Christmas Preparation
The Quest
The Quest
–Mystery of Christhood
What All Men May Receive from Christmas
What All Men May Receive from Christmas
–622-2, 12/19/76
The Coming of Christ into our Hearts and Lives
The Coming of Christ into our Hearts and Lives
–545-2, 12/23/73
Christ the Great Hierarch
Christ the Great Hierarch
–238-2, 12/22/63

Preparation for Michaelmas Retreat

"Angels are watching with keen interest and a great desire to help–to raise you, to stimulate you into contact with your own supernal inner resources."
–Rev. Flower A. Newhouse

Rediscovering the Angels
Rediscovering the Angels
Touched by Angels
Touched by Angels
Kingdom of the Shining Ones
Kingdom of the Shining Ones
Angels
Angels
–874-2, 9/28/86
Why the Reality of Angels Is Vital to Our Age
Why the Reality of Angels Is Vital to Our Age
–314-2, 10/2/66
The Angelic Shining Hosts
The Angelic Shining Hosts
–010-2, 9/24/54

Preparation for Vernal Retreat

"We want to see the beauty that God is painting for us constantly to our visible sight and feel with all our inner beings what is behind that outer beauty."
–Rev. Flower A. Newhouse

Songs of Deliverance
Songs of Deliverance
–At-one-ment With Nature
The Journey Upward
The Journey Upward
–Finding Enlightenment Through Nature
Angels of Nature
Angels of Nature
–Finding Enlightenment Through Nature
Walking in Beauty
Walking in Beauty
–466-1, 6/27/71
Nature's Portals of Instruction
Nature's Portals of Instruction
–088-1, 6/8/58
Extracting Spiritual Stimulus from the Arts
Extracting Spiritual Stimulus from the Arts
–060-2, 9/2/56

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Important Dates

Major Retreats are held to celebrate the annual festivals of Easter, Michaelmas, and Christmas.

Retreat Jun 22-23 Vernal Retreat
Annual Celebration of The Arts and Nature

Seeing Divine Life in All Things Material and Interior
Sat: Activities to bring us into greater contact with God
Sun: Expanding Our Perception–Learning to See
by Rev. Jonathan Wiltshire

Retreat Aug 10 Masters Silent Retreat
Annual Day of Silent Attunement and Dedication

Retreat Sep 27-29 Michaelmas Retreat
Annual Celebration of the Angel Kingdom

Retreat Dec 20-22 Christmas Retreat
Annual Celebration of the Christ Coming

Retreat Apr 18-20 Easter Retreat
Annual Celebration of the Christ Resurrection

Sunday Services

Church of the Holy QuestDevotional Services are held every Sunday at 10:45 a.m. in the Church of the Holy Quest, with music, meditation, prayer and a spoken message.
Podcast Audio recordings of past sermons.

Podcast Apr 7 I have come to bring fire on Earth: Christ Our Enlightener
Rev. Jonathan Wiltshire
Podcast Apr 14 The I Ching: Ancient and Modern Wisdom
Rick Plant
Podcast Apr 21 The Mystical Gifts of Personal Retreats
Rev. Lucy Wold
Podcast Apr 28 The Inner Purpose and Meaning of the Lord's Prayer
Rev. Blake Isaac
Podcast May 5 Living a Christ-filled Life
Rev. Hal Lingerman
Podcast May 12 The Many Expressions of Motherhood
Rev. Elizabeth Wood
Service May 19 Expanding Our Perception: Learning to Listen
Rev. Jonathan Wiltshire
Service May 26 The Continuity of Life
Captain Dan Willis
Service Jun 2 The Importance of Spiritual Travel
Rev. Blake Isaac
Service Jun 9 Expanding our Understanding of the Healing Ways of Jesus
Rev. Miara Wiltshire
Service Jun 16 Christ's Beatitudes: Finding Harmony of Male and Female
Rev. Hal Lingerman

Service Jun 23 Vernal Retreat: Expanding Our Perception: Learning to See
Rev. Jonathan Wiltshire

Service Jun 30 The Law of Freedom
Rev. Myrna Triggs
Service Jul 7 The Inner Influence of Our Zodiac Signs
Rev. Blake Isaac
Service Jul 14 Life's Lessons and Legacies
Richard Wold
Service Jul 21 Living the Lord's Prayer: A Sharing of Lawrence Newhouse
Rev. Hal Lingerman

Ongoing Activities

ActivitiesClasses and Workshops are offered regularly on Christward principles, prayer, meditation, healing, and artistic expression.

Calendar View our Calendar for an up-to-date list of the Classes and Workshops currently being offered.

Event World Prayer is practiced each Friday at noon in Chapelito. Join us here, or from wherever you are, in group prayer for the blessing of our planet, humanity, and all life.

Class Finding Your True North Classes are held each Monday at 1:00 p.m. in the Academy. These classes are designed to help us find ways into God's Presence, using Flower A. Newhouse's western approach to meditation. Early lessons were posted online at /findtruenorth.

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

Clinic Pranic Healing Clinics are conducted on the first Sunday of each month in the Questahven Academy from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Learn more at pranichealingsd.com.

Event PanEuRhythmy is danced most early mornings near the Labyrinth. This dance-exercise-meditation opens us to the presence and power of Spirit within ourselves and the universe. Learn more at paneurhythmy.us.

Event Servers in Action Days are on the first Saturday of each month from 9:00 a.m. until noon. This is a wonderful opportunity for fellowship and service to Questhaven.