Holden Village; Chelan County, WA

You are Welcome Here

A diverse collection of couples, families and singles, young and old join in becoming a community of renewal and challenge. Holden welcomes people with diverse viewpoints and experiences, as it seeks to foster open and respectful dialog around challenging issues.

Holden enjoys a longstanding relationship with the Lutheran Church, and the Village welcomes all, regardless of denomination, faith tradition and spiritual path.

While Holden is rooted in the Lutheran Christian tradition, it draws many non-Lutherans as both guests and staff. A good number of non-Christians feel comfortable in an atmosphere of mutual acceptance and conversation. All visitors to Holden, regardless of faith background, make a commitment to worship together once a day at the community’s evening Vespers.
Holden affirms the right of each person to be treated as a child of God, and is committed to creating and maintaining a community free from discrimination, harassment, or insensitive treatment toward any person because of race, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, or physical condition.

By the grace of God and the courage of past communities, Holden is becoming a safe and welcoming community for gay, lesbian, transgendered, and bisexual people.

The Village is also committed to becoming a more multicultural community, through self-awareness, recruitment, and broadening of its staff and leadership, as it works to realize its own mission, “celebrating the unity and the diversity of the church, all humanity and all creation.”