BCH Center Programs & Retreats
2025 Program Offerings
Winter Youth Retreat
February 28 - March 2, 2025
Middle & High Schoolers
- In late February the BCH youth community will gather in person for an overnight retreat - and we want you to be there! Check in will take place at 5pm on Friday afternoon in the gym. We will spend the weekend trying new things, embracing the cold weather, and building friendships. On Sunday morning we’ll have breakfast and a short service, then bid farewell to one another at 10am in the gym. If you’ve been looking for a place to meet new people or a chance to dip your toes in the BCH community, this is it!
- Cost: We have tiered pricing! Pay as you are able at $175, $100, and $50 levels.
** Register now at https://bchcamp.campbrainregistration.com or email our Program Director at kate@bchcenter.org with any questions.
Pre-Confirmation Retreat
March 21 - 23, 2025
Middle & High Schoolers
- Come engage in a meaningful weekend of deepening faith and bringing to life the connection we often find in these spaces. Developed in tandem with the confirmation preparation curriculum framework and the scheduling of regional confirmation offerings, this retreat offers a way for youth in the confirmation discernment process to come together and explore, learn, and build community.
Wild Tea with Jesus
March 22, 2025
Adults
- During this Lenten day retreat we will create tea out of wild ingredients foraged together from the BCH property. Through the ritual of foraging, brewing, and drinking our tea, we will create an atmosphere where we can dig deep into two separate stories of staying close with God in God’s last days.
Work Weekend and Youth Retreats
May 9-11, 2025 and October 24-26, 2025
Adults, Middle & High Schoolers for the Youth Retreat
- Work Weekend
- Join us for a weekend of work (and play!) as we complete various projects around BCH. Bring yourself, your family & friends, your church, or your youth group to BCH for the day or stay overnight. All ages, stages, and abilities welcome!
- Scheduling:
- On Saturday morning we’ll gather for breakfast in the dining hall starting at 8am and then break into project groups for the morning. We’ll gather back together for lunch at noon and then either begin more projects for the afternoon, or continue with the morning’s projects. The work portion of our day will end around 5pm with dinner at 6pm, after which we’ll celebrate our time together with a campfire and reception Saturday evening.
- For folks who choose to stay Saturday night, breakfast on Sunday will be at 8am followed by a closing Eucharist service. This will wrap up our time together.
- Cost: This is a no cost event.
- Youth Retreat
- Youth in middle and high school will have their own retreat during this time, building community and getting to know one another, and will join work weekend folks for a few hours of project fun.
- Scheduling
- Cost: We have tiered pricing! Pay as you are able at $175, $100, and $50 levels.
Becoming an Episcopal Outdoorswoman
2025 Dates TBD
Adult Women
- If you’ve ever been curious about expanding your outdoors skillset, or are looking to deepen the wilderness practices you already love, this is a program for you. Facilitated by Episcopal women, come and spend the weekend (or day) connecting with creation and learning, together, valuable skills in an environment of cooperation and Christian community. Workshops include mushroom IDing, archery, safety outdoors, fire building, orienteering, Kumihimo friendship bracelets, and more.
Becoming An Episcopal Outdoorswoman is coordinated by NH Episcopalian and environmental educator Linden Rayton. As the owner and educator of Living Water Nature Programs, LLC, she works to bring people of all ages into deeper relationship with the natural world, through exploration, education and reflection.
Becoming an Episcopal Outdoorswoman Workshop Leaders Left to Right: Linden Rayton, Sarah Loy, The Rev. Louise Howlett, The Rev. Spencer Hatcher, Canon Tina Pickering, The Rev. Kate Harmon Siberine
For Conference Center questions or to make reservations, please call (603) 547-3400 or email info@bchcenter.org
