Programs
2025 Programs At A Glance
Would you like to lead a retreat or a workshop at the Valle Crucis Conference Center? Send a note to Margaret Love at director@vcconferences.org. We'll be looking for your thoughts on group size, number of days (one-day retreat, multi-day, etc.), number of meals, etc. plus a short description of your program idea.
A Holy Hikes Experience
Sunday-Wednesday, October 26-29, 2025
Accommodations in the Inn
Single rooms $465 per person; double rooms $390 per person
A Quiet Retreat for Advent
Saturday, November 22, 2025
$60 full program
A Holy Hikes Experience
Sunday-Wednesday, October 26-29, 2025
Accommodations in the Inn
Single rooms $465 per person; double rooms $390 per person
Come grow in faith during the most beautiful time of year in the High Country! Daily hikes of varying abilities will be offered by Holy Hikes of WNC as well as morning and evening talks this year's speaker, the Rev. Dr. Timothy Ross. Tim Ross--a pastor, professor, missionary, spouse, dad, citizen of the Western Cherokee Nation who lives in Johnson City--will share on the intersection of Christian spirituality and Native wisdom and spirituality.
Accommodations are in the Inn, with limited single rooms available. Hiking excursions are tailored to different experience and skill levels, and all are welcome. Non-hikers who may enjoy fly fishing, biking, or exploring the mountains by car during the day are also welcome to attend. Or you may enjoy coming for some interesting talks and some quiet time on a beautiful retreat property.
Register here for the Holy Hikes Experience.
A Quiet Advent Retreat
Saturday, November 22, 2025
Katerina Whitley
Johnson Hall First Floor
Full program $60
Our annual Advent Retreat will take place on Saturday, November 22, in Johnson Hall, Valle
Crucis Conference Center, from 10:00 to 2:00. Everyone is invited, men, women, and young
people. Lunch and snacks will be provided.
Advent fills us with the thrill of anticipation for the joy that is to come. We will experience this
together with those who were present and waiting more than 2000 years ago. Whom were they expecting? What was it they were seeing? How did they greet the mind-opening promises given to them?
We will also look at the promises and follow them in awe, accompanied by angel song, to a humble manger.