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A message from Cedar Cross

Dear Friends and Supporters,

Perhaps this letter finds you, like us, overwhelmed by the issues we all face, but we want to let you know that our commitments, actions, and hope are alive. Cedar Cross Retreat Center is continuing to welcome retreatants to a much needed place of rest, reflection, and renewal for the soul and spirit.

Although the retreat center is a place apart, we have not been totally insulated from the events of 2020. Our retreat numbers, and thus our income, are significantly down for the year. Typically, much of our revenue comes from large group retreats, which are not happening because of the virus. Instead, we are seeing more individuals and couples seeking essential periods of quiet listening and discernment, as well as families and small groups (four or fewer) who are realizing the benefits of time away. We continue to reduce our expenses, while also increasing our cleaning and sanitation efforts to ensure a safe environment for all who come.

Retreatants continue to tell us that being on retreat here nourishes them in many ways, perhaps in spiritual direction, opportunities for creative exploration, the beauty of nature, or the spaciousness to clarify future action. They bless us with their stories and a gratitude that we share with you.

With this annual letter, we come to you in this challenging year earnestly inviting you to prayerfully consider making a financial contribution to the ongoing mission of Cedar Cross. We rely on your generosity. We hope you will also consider scheduling some retreat time for yourselves to enjoy the benefits you help to support.
 

In peace and thankfulness,

The Cedar Cross Mission Group
John Hilpert, Margaret Hilpert, Mac Hulslander, Lillie R. Jones,
Butch Grove, Vickie Grove, Ginger M. Allen, Jimmy W. Allen

 

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Mission of Cedar Cross: Rest, Reflection, and Renewal

We provide overnight and day-retreat space for small groups (up to 16 participants) and individual retreatants. Individuals, couples, and friends are invited to stay in Heron’s Nest, which is a two-bedroom cottage, or in one of the three suites of the Lodge. For more information, please contact the coordinator, Jimmy Allen, at 919-729-2586, or at cedarcrossregistrar@gmail.com. More information is available on our web site: cedarcrossretreat.info. We look forward to hosting you.
 

Mission Group members who oversee the ministry of Cedar Cross
Butch Grove, Vickie Grove, Mac Hulslander, Margaret Hilpert, John Hilpert, Lillie Jones, Ginger Allen, and Jimmy Allen

Specific roles at Cedar Cross
John Hilpert and Margaret Hilpert, founders and back-up hosts
Jimmy Allen, coordinator
Lillie Jones, gleaner
Mitch Mitchell, caretaker for outdoor spaces
David Jerose, caretaker for outdoor spaces
Lori Litton, bookkeeper
Linda Lamb, caterer

Covenant Community Church supports this retreat center through the Cedar Cross Mission Group.  We are a small ecumenical church offering a participatory form of worship that invites lively involvement by all members. We worship Sunday afternoons in Raleigh at the Community United Church of Christ (corner of Wade Avenue and Dixie Trail). During the pandemic the community gathers virtually.

The mission group, which is a subset of the Covenant Community membership, typically meets monthly at the retreat center for a day of work, prayer, play, planning, and being with friends.

Giving
We are grateful to all who support the ministry of Cedar Cross Retreat Center. If you believe in providing a place for people to experience rest, reflection, and renewal, please consider giving a donation.

You can give securely online at www.cedarcrossretreat.info/donate/ or click on the donate button below. Or send a check to Cedar Cross Retreat Center, 150 Cedar Cross Way, Louisburg, NC 27549. 
 

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Summer Green


Rise up from the stump of sorrow, and be green also,
like the diligent leaves.
— Mary Oliver
 

The diligent leaves of green in summer abound in this view from the back deck of the Lodge. Colors range from the dark hues of holly leaves to the brighter tones of red buds. Noticing the details of color in nature is one of the many ways retreatants at Cedar Cross Retreat Center are able to experience rest from the busyness and, sometimes, chaos of the world.

New opportunities for retreats 

The novel coronavirus pandemic is affecting all people to varying  degrees, including Cedar Cross. Yet, like many others, we are learning something new about our ministry of providing a place of rest, reflection, and renewal.

We are noticing two new ways for people to experience a time of retreat.

One of those is a small group of friends. A group of four can come on retreat with each having his/her living area (bed, sitting area, and full bathroom). When the group wants to gather, they can keep six feet apart in the Community Room. 

The other is adults introducing their children and grandchildren to being on a retreat. One of our Mission Group members, Mac Hulslander, and his wife, Peg, brought their teenage grandchildren to Cedar Cross. You can read his reflection about that experience below. Of course, we still welcome individuals and couples for retreats as well.

If you want to talk about possibilities of being on retreat, you can send an email to me at cedarcrossregistrar@gmail.com or call me at 919-729-2586.

As the psalmist shared: “Be still and know that I am God.”
 

— Jimmy Allen, coordinator
 

A family’s experience together at Cedar Cross

The Chinese character for “crisis” incorporates the meanings of both “danger” and “opportunity.” Such are the times we are all experiencing.

We here at Cedar Cross Retreat Center are seeking various ways by which to respond to the challenges presented by the pandemic. While our purpose of providing a safe space for rest, relaxation and renewal has largely focused on individual/couple/group retreatants (read “adult”), my wife and I recently successfully extricated our 13 and 15-year old grand-daughters from their phones, homes, and TV shows for experiencing a four-day “mini” retreat at Cedar Cross for fun and familial bonding.

It was a great experience!

Whether spending our time playing horseshoes, walking the trails, sharing chance (but poignant) conversations over meals, delighting over a box turtle’s visit or composing poems by candlelight, the days we shared together were delightfully full and pleasurable. (One clue to which is their strong desire to return!)

I write this simply as a way of planting a seed on how a family (or even one with very close friends) could also provide for restful and renewing experiences for “such a time as this.”

And, it also is a real help with keeping the Center operative when our income flow has been drastically reduced. Please give this possibility some thought for an upcoming summer activity and approach Jimmy about scheduling your own or family get-away for re-creative and restorative ways of “sheltering” in a beautiful, serene, and inviting sanctuary.
 

— Mac Hulslander

A view from the trail


A single yellow lily rises from the greenery next to a stone walkway being built in the Sunny Garden behind the art studio. 

Words from a retreatant …

“Thank you! I am grateful for this lovely place of rest, renewal, and reflection. The thoughtful accessibility touches such as an entry ramp, door levers, and a broad vegetable peeler for my arthritic hands were much appreciated — “a problem-free philosophy,” as the meerkat in Lion King says. I hope I can return here regularly and bring others to share its benefits. Thanks again!

Land of mushrooms


The colors of summer aren’t limited to yellow flowers, green leaves, and blue skies. Throughout the 52 acres of the mostly-wooded retreat center, retreatants can discover a wide variety of mushrooms. Scientists estimate the earth has 1.5 million species of fungi. Less than five percent have been identified.  According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, these fungi serve several purposes in forest ecosystems, including decompostion, nutrient cycling, and biological control of other fungi. Fungi also provide food for wildlife, and the decay they cause in living trees is beneficial to many birds and mammals. From a spiritual perspective, mushrooms also provide an opportunity for people to admire the beauty of creation. 

Listening to a summer rain



To give you more of a sense of what life is like at Cedar Cross, we are including a 30-second video in each edition of Journeys. In the last edition, we took a virtual walk along the Middle Trail. In this edition, you are invited to click the link below and listen to the sound of summer rain on the trees near the Lodge. Here is the link:
https://www.cedarcrossretreat.info/2020/08/07/summer-rain/

 

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Getting to know the Mission Group of Cedar Cross 

Note: We consider everyone who participates in a retreat here, prays for this ministry, volunteers to help, and/or offers financial support to be a part of Cedar Cross Retreat Center. In addition to the hundreds who are part of the Cedar Cross community, we have a Mission Group that oversees the ministry. This section is intended to give us all a little insight about these folks. The names of Mission Group members is listed at the base of each edition.

In this edition of Journeys, Lillie Jones responds to the prompt of how she got involved with Cedar Cross.


Lillie Jones, left, joins Margaret Hilpert in giving the screen porch a deep cleaning earlier this summer. Lillie’s deep love for Cedar Cross and its mission shows in various ways, including her bright smile and gift for hospitality.

A word from Lillie Jones

My journey with Cedar Cross began through my involvement with Covenant Community Church. One of the members was my respected and esteemed friend, Mac Hulslander. Through that, I became involved in developing the retreat center. I remember the first time I drove down the path and felt as though we drove 10 miles through the woods (although it’s actually only a half mile off the road). I found that both the work of Cedar Cross and the people involved to be invitational for me. This has been a way for me to draw closer to God. 
 



Mission of Cedar Cross: Rest, Reflection, and Renewal

We provide overnight and day-retreat space for small groups (up to 16 participants) and individual retreatants. Individuals, couples, and friends are invited to stay in Heron’s Nest, which is a two-bedroom cottage, or in one of the three suites of the Lodge. For more information, please contact the coordinator, Jimmy Allen, at 919-729-2586, or at cedarcrossregistrar@gmail.com. More information is available on our web site: cedarcrossretreat.info. We look forward to hosting you.
 

Mission Group members who oversee the ministry of Cedar Cross
Butch Grove, Vickie Grove, Mac Hulslander, Margaret Hilpert, John Hilpert, Lillie Jones, Ginger Allen, and Jimmy Allen

Specific roles at Cedar Cross
John Hilpert and Margaret Hilpert, founders and back-up hosts
Jimmy Allen, coordinator
Lillie Jones, gleaner
Boomer Alston, caretaker for outdoor spaces
Lori Litton, bookkeeper
Linda Lamb, caterer

Covenant Community Church supports this retreat center through the Cedar Cross Mission Group.  We are a small ecumenical church offering a participatory form of worship that invites lively involvement by all members. We worship Sunday afternoons in Raleigh at the Community United Church of Christ (corner of Wade Avenue and Dixie Trail). During the pandemic the community gathers virtually.

The mission group, which is a subset of the Covenant Community membership, typically meets monthly at the retreat center for a day of work, prayer, play, planning, and being with friends.

Giving
We are grateful to all who support the ministry of Cedar Cross Retreat Center. If you believe in providing a place for people to experience rest, reflection, and renewal, please consider giving a donation.

You can give securely online at www.cedarcrossretreat.info/donate/ or click on the donate button below. Or send a check to Cedar Cross Retreat Center, 150 Cedar Cross Way, Louisburg, NC 27549. 
 

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The Light Still Shines

Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote, “Earth’s crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God; But only he who sees takes off his shoes … “

This is a time that is ripe for us to figuratively “take off our shoes” as we become more aware of systemic racism and adjust to life in a pandemic. Cedar Cross Retreat Center continues to be a place where people can rest and reflect in the hope and expectation of being renewed. 

During the pandemic, we are taking measures to still be able to welcome retreatants by disinfecting our guest facilities after each retreatant’s stay.  If you want to schedule a time for retreat, please click on the link below or send an email to cedarcrossregistrar@gmail.com. 

In the photos, the common, and, yet, beautiful and wild, oxeye daisies speckle the New Field at Cedar Cross as they reach toward the afternoon sun, and succulents growing in the rock terrace on the South Hillside show their spring blossoms.
 

Words from a retreatant …

“Thank you. Thank you, Covenant Church, for providing this beautiful place for rest and renewal! Immaculately maintained, aesthetically engaging, with so many beautiful, whimsical paths to explore — God bless you all! Covid-19 was underway unbeknownst to us, when I was here last December. I came this time with a heavy heart, with many fears. I leave now, with a renewed sense of the grace of God, and a heart that, by that grace, now sings, ‘Trust’ and ‘Courage.’ Until next time.”

A word about work at Cedar Cross

We all keep upgrading Cedar Cross during this pause, either doing needed maintenance, or allowing creativity to emerge. Granite rocks disturbed from millennial sleep by mule-pulled plow a century and a half ago were thrown into dozens of piles to allow farming. Leaves, dirt and moss provided blankets for renewed sleep.

For the last 45 years, a few of us have been resurrecting many rocks to create low walls, focal points, and reflection spaces. Now, younger pairs of hands are moving hundreds more to express new visions provided by the same Spirit.

From the beauty of simple food to nourish bodies, rock is now moving to allow beauty to nourish souls. 
 

— John Hilpert, a founder of Cedar Cross and the forest steward

A view from the trail

A beam of sunlight illuminates a leaf on this tulip poplar near a new trail being developed at Cedar Cross. Among the four miles of trails, retreatants can see more than 50 species of trees. The most common, in addition to the tulip poplar, are maple, oaks (many kinds), pines, sweet gum, wild cherry, hickory (many kinds), dogwood, holly, cedar, beech, black gum, and sourwood.

We seek to nurture a healthy forest. Here is an excerpt from Eco Trail Guide written by John Hilpert: “You may see some big trees with light green tape on them, and two horizontal cuts about an inch into the bark and outer layer (called cambium).  All the nutrients of the tree go up through this layer, so by cutting it, the tree slowly dies.  Why would we do that?  Simply, there are too many large “canopy” trees in a small space, and cutting down one of the least healthy could likely destroy many other trees as it fell.

“But as the tree dies slowly, birds, including woodpeckers, start to hunt for insects by digging holes in the bark.  Then other birds, including owls, dig out cavities or holes in the rotting wood for homes. By the way, trees flagged with blue tape are to be cut out and put in the gulleys; red tape means to save for firewood.”
 

Dawning of Life
The numerous sprigs of running cedar
point toward a morning sky,
looking past the arms of trees open wide
to a black bird flowing above.
The bird carries a stick for a spring nest,
preparing for the dawning of life.
 
–This poem was written by Jimmy Allen during A Guided Day Apart at Cedar Cross.

If you have written a poem, short story, or reflection while you were at Cedar Cross, or if the poem, short story, or reflection is about the retreat center, we’d love for you to share it with us. You can make a submission to the coordinator at cedarcrossregistrar@gmail.com.

A virtual walk … on the Middle Trail

We are trying something new for friends of Cedar Cross. As a way to give you a taste of the retreat center, we are going to offer short videos that we hope are meaningful for you. In this edition, you can join in a walk on the Middle Trail during a spring rain. To take the virtual walk, just click on this link, which will take you to our web site: https://www.cedarcrossretreat.info/2020/06/16/walk-with-me-on-the-middle-trail-to-the-south-hillside/
 

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Getting to know the Mission Group of Cedar Cross 

Note: We consider everyone who participates in a retreat here, prays for this ministry, volunteers to help, and/or offers financial support to be a part of Cedar Cross Retreat Center. In addition to the hundreds who are part of the Cedar Cross community, we have a Mission Group that oversees the ministry. This section is intended to give us all a little insight about these folks. The names of Mission Group members is below in the masthead.

In this edition of Journeys, Butch Grove responds to the prompt:  Please tell us a favorite experience at Cedar Cross.

Butch Grove, right, talks with Mac Hulslander about the moss garden
being developed at Cedar Cross Retreat Center. Below, he writes about the wedding arch that is pictured above. The arch is on the Village Green near the goldfish pond. 

Butch Grove

My favorite memory and experience at Cedar Cross has to be when in 2003, Vickie and I got married on the Village Green, next to the goldfish pool. 

Although Cedar Cross was never intended as a wedding venue, the Mission Group made an exception since Vickie and I had been active members for years.  Neither Vickie nor I could imagine a more fitting place to bring together our faith community and the blending of our two families. 

The only enhancement we made to the natural beauty of Cedar Cross in preparation of sharing our vows was to erect a simple cedar archway adorned with a stained glass symbol of Cedar Cross given to us by the Mission Group as wedding gift. 

That cedar arch has become affectionately known as the wedding arch, and every time I see it I think back to that special day. 
 

Mission of Cedar Cross: Rest, Reflection, and Renewal

We provide overnight and day-retreat space for small groups (up to 16 participants) and individual retreatants. Individuals, couples, and friends are invited to stay in Heron’s Nest, which is a two-bedroom cottage, or in one of the three suites of the Lodge. For more information, please contact the coordinator, Jimmy Allen, at 919-729-2586, or at cedarcrossregistrar@gmail.com. More information is available on our web site: cedarcrossretreat.info. We look forward to hosting you.
 

Mission Group members who oversee the ministry of Cedar Cross
Butch Grove, Vickie Grove, Mac Hulslander, Margaret Hilpert, John Hilpert, Lillie Jones, Ginger Allen, and Jimmy Allen

Specific roles at Cedar Cross
John Hilpert and Margaret Hilpert, founders and back-up hosts
Jimmy Allen, coordinator
Lillie Jones, gleaner
Rachel Allen, caretaker for indoor spaces
David Jerose, caretaker for outdoor spaces
Boomer Alston, caretaker for outdoor spaces
Lori Litton, bookkeeper
Linda Lamb, caterer

Covenant Community Church supports this retreat center through the Cedar Cross Mission Group.  We are a small ecumenical church offering a participatory form of worship that invites lively involvement by all members. We worship Sunday afternoons in Raleigh at the Community United Church of Christ (corner of Wade Avenue and Dixie Trail). During the pandemic the community gathers virtually.

The mission group, which is a subset of the Covenant Community membership, typically meets monthly at the retreat center for a day of work, prayer, play, planning, and being with friends.

Giving
We are grateful to all who support the ministry of Cedar Cross Retreat Center. If you believe in providing a place for people to experience rest, reflection, and renewal, please consider giving a donation.

You can give securely online at www.cedarcrossretreat.info/donate/ or click on the donate button below. Or send a check to Cedar Cross Retreat Center, 150 Cedar Cross Way, Louisburg, NC 27549. 
 

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Brilliance of spring color


Mid-day sunlight heightens the colors of spring at Cedar Cross Retreat Center, including the vibrant red leaves of a Japanese maple, bright green hues of a poplar, the soft white of a dogwood blossom nestled next to the shades of the forest, and the emerald green logo of Cedar Cross in the arch leading to the goldfish pond. 





Coronavirus pandemic impacting
the ministry of Cedar Cross

With an acknowledgement of the gravity of the COVID-19 pandemic and the necessity of distancing measures, it is unfortunate that groups who had planned to visit the retreat center this spring are unable to come and enjoy the beautiful array of spring colors. 

Some of the groups have postponed their retreats, and others have had to cancel.

We are, though, welcoming individual retreatants and couples, who, of course, have no signs of the virus. Precautions being taken include disinfecting the Lodge and Heron’s Nest between retreatants and creating a buffer of 72 hours between visitors. 

The mission of Cedar Cross is to provide a place that is conducive for rest, reflection, and renewal. This mission is needed throughout the year, and the Mission Group, which oversees the ministry, discerned that the mission may be needed even more acutely during this pandemic. 

We realize that not everyone will want to make the drive into the woods of Franklin County. We do hope, though, that each of us will take time to be aware of the restorative beauty of God’s creation, wherever we live.

Contact us if you’d like to inquire about an individual or couple’s retreat.

         
Note from one of our founders

          The Cedar Cross Mission Group has a long standing commitment to treat part-time hourly workers with respect, fair pay, and encouraging support. An interesting byproduct of this commitment is emerging during a time when group retreats are all canceling with that total loss of income, or hopefully only postponing.

          Instead of moping about, and cutting hours to those on the margins already, we are tackling upgrades of grounds and buildings. Mostly using what we have, our freed up time is devoted to co-creating beauty.

          Since none of us is 35, we are paying our workers to help bring these projects to fruition. Win-Win. 

            — John Hilpert, a founder and now the forest steward of Cedar Cross


A Misty Morning at Cedar Cross
It’s a misty, moisty, morning at Cedar Cross.
Fern fronds are unfolding
Their spiraled, fragile fiddleheads
And intricately-laced spider webs,
Having caught the dawn’s remaining dew,
Glisten everywhere across the forest floor,
Refracting the sun’s early beams
Like myriad woodland luminaries.

Moss beds, verdant and vibrant,
Soften the many forest pathways
Leading me on with awe-filled expectation.
The sun, now diminishing all foggy impressions,
Lends its heat and light
To clarify and further define
All of the woods’ regenerating fauna.

I bask in the gracious stillness
And revel in how my eyes delight
At beholding anew with joy and wonder
Nature’s energies slowly awakening,
All while the sweet call of a titmouse
And hoarse croak of a distant crow
Provide their voices and place in the choir.

Spring sunshine is enlivening the
Glories and beauties of resurrection promise
And I pause in thankfulness.

                                       — Mac Hulslander, 4/7/2020






“It is a beautiful space.”

— words from a retreatant

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A Sunny Garden Journal



Dear Journeys readers,

The Sunny Garden is one of a few areas at Cedar Cross where the canopy is open, allowing hours of sunshine daily. It’s also located just behind the art studio, which is an essential part of my creative practice, particularly during retreat. 

Last autumn, I went to Cedar Cross for a week-long individual art retreat. After that, I began to ask my fellow mission-group members questions about the Sunny Garden. I wanted to know her story. 

We – the mission group – worked in mid-March to remove a blanket of leaves and wake her up for springtime. We pulled weeds, talked about reconstructing the fence, and brainstormed other aspects. I began to learn what was planted where. And I couldn’t help but notice her beautiful bones – short stone walls around daylily beds, handmade fencing, an arbor leading into the woods….

Two days later the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. In the days that followed, my business and most of my income as a jeweler began to dissolve right before my eyes. 

So I turned to the garden. 

I began keeping a journal about the garden and my experiences and thoughts as I engaged there. After talking with the mission group, we decided to share the story with all of you. We launched The Sunny Garden Journal on the Cedar Cross website. The blog is now my journal as I work with the garden. You can read the blog here: www.cedarcrossretreat.info/blog.

I have long been drawn to this garden, and the process is already a gift for me even without showy blooms or long summer afternoons there (yet). It’s likely that I would have adopted this garden anyway, but now it is incidentally happening as the coronavirus pandemic has taken the globe. Our story is still unfolding. 

Thanks for reading,
Ginger Allen

Mission of Cedar Cross: Rest, Reflection, and Renewal

We provide overnight and day-retreat space for small groups (up to 16 participants) and individual retreatants. Individuals, couples, and friends are invited to stay in Heron’s Nest, which is a two-bedroom cottage, or in one of the three suites of the Lodge. For more information, please contact the coordinator, Jimmy Allen, at 919-729-2586, or at cedarcrossregistrar@gmail.com. More information is available on our web site: cedarcrossretreat.info. We look forward to hosting you.
 

Mission Group members who oversee the ministry of Cedar Cross
Butch Grove, Vickie Grove, Mac Hulslander, Margaret Hilpert, John Hilpert, Lillie Jones, Ginger Allen, and Jimmy Allen

Specific roles at Cedar Cross
John Hilpert and Margaret Hilpert, founders and back-up hosts
Jimmy Allen, coordinator
Lillie Jones, gleaner
Rachel Allen, caretaker for indoor spaces
David Jerose, caretaker for outdoor spaces
Boomer Alston, caretaker for outdoor spaces
Lori Litton, bookkeeper
Linda Lamb, caterer

Covenant Community Church supports this retreat center through the Cedar Cross Mission Group.  We are a small ecumenical church offering a participatory form of worship that invites lively involvement by all members. We worship Sunday afternoons in Raleigh at the Community United Church of Christ (corner of Wade Avenue and Dixie Trail). Because of the pandemic, the community gathers virtually.

The mission group, which is a subset of the Covenant Community membership, typically meets monthly at the retreat center for a day of work, prayer, play, planning, and being with friends.

Giving
We are grateful to all who support the ministry of Cedar Cross Retreat Center. If you believe in providing a place for people to experience rest, reflection, and renewal, please consider giving a donation.

You can give securely online at www.cedarcrossretreat.info/donate/ or click on the donate button below. Or send a check to Cedar Cross Retreat Center, 150 Cedar Cross Way, Louisburg, NC 27549. 
 

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