Escape to Holmes Camp & Retreat Center for a guided weekend of rest, restoration, and reconnection. With each year featuring a new theme and engaging speakers and leaders the Fall Women’s Retreat is Holmes’s most popular program every year.

We are excited to welcome Rev. Krystin Granberg from Riverdale Presbyterian Church as our 2024 facilitator.

Program Summary:
Howard Thurman, theologian, professor, preacher, teacher, spiritual leader (some consider a mystic of the 20th Century) has written about the importance to “center down”. As the retreat is the weekend before the US Presidential election (and local as well)  come and explore ways to ponder God’s presence in all the anxiety, challenge, language, exhaustion of any campaign, based up on the writings of Howard Thurman. From Meditations of the Heart:

How good it is to center down!
To sit quietly and see one’s self pass by!
The streets of our minds seethe with endless traffic;
Our spirits resound with clashings, with noisy silences,
While something deep within hungers and thirsts for the still moment and the resting lull.
With full intensity we seek, ere the quiet passes, a fresh sense of order in our living;
A direction, a strong sure purpose that will structure our confusion and bring meaning in our chaos.
We look at ourselves in this waiting moment — the kinds of people we are.

…. More to Come!

MEET REV. KRYSTIN GRANBERG
The Rev. Krystin Granberg is Pastor/Head of Staff serving the Riverdale Presbyterian Church, Bronx, NY.  Previously she has served as Interim Pastor/Head of Staff in Pelham, NY and several churches on the upper east and west sides of Manhattan.  She worked at the National Council of Churches of Christ USA as coordinator of the China Program for Church World Service and Witness. Before moving to this position, she taught English in China for three years under their umbrella.  Her experience also has included working for the New York Times in New York and Dallas in the advertising division. Her current commitments include serving on the Board of Trustees of the Presbytery of New York City (among other things) and with the Riverdale/Kingsbridge Interfaith Clergy Council. Krystin served on the Holmes Camp Board and was chair of the subcommittee that changed the structure of the Board giving more flexibility. She has a particular interest in the Mystics of the Christian Faith and how they intersect with Reformed Theology. An avid reader, she is a committed traveler, loves learning new things and loves the beach. She has an Aussiedoodle named Charlie.

Need-based financial aid is available for most Holmes Camp & Retreat Center Programs. Scholarship Application. For questions or more information contact holmes@holmescamp.org.

The Holmes Women’s Retreat is a faith-focused Christian education program. While all Holmes programs are open to adherents of any faith, this retreat is designed with Presbyterians and members of other Mainline Protestant denominations in mind.