• Earth Temple Nature Meditations: We help organize and participate in sacred meditations in natural places around the world, focusing often on Fidalgo Island in the USA Pacific Northwest. Please contact if you would like to join us. This island is thriving with some of the largest and last populations of rare fauna and flora on earth, blessed by local citizens who preserve and protect the natural forests, ringed by majestic mountains, more islands, the sparkling Salish Sea, and a slightly more distant last remaining temperate rainforest. It is also struggling with developers and toxins, and the more we can keep its sacredness alive, the more we may serve both it and ourselves. We've chosen it as our focus towards our goal that we share with the Quakers: an earth restored. We aim for a reawakening of the sacredness that the earth is not separate from anything, but is a temple within the larger temple of heaven. We acknowledge the seeming harshness of nature at times, also, and suggest that it, like all entities, may want to evolve into a New Earth. Usually, our meditations end up categorized within the following: Forest Sanctuary (forest and woodlands), Spirit of the Sea (beach, sea, dolphins and whales), Enchanted Meadows (swans, snow geese, wildflower and open sunny areas), Mountain Cathedral (most often island and Cascade range mountains), Flower Gardens (where humans and nature co-create), and horse experiences.
• Gathering Sessions: We gather on Sundays and other days throughout the week for readings and discussions from a variety of sources, including St. Theresa's Internal Castle, Norman Paulsen (author, Christ Consciousness), Eckhart Tolle, Henry Lincoln, HeartMath concepts, Gangaji, and Celtic and pre-European studies. We also hold simple practices of silent candlelit meditation, meditations with African incense and recorded African drumming, gentle healing music meditations, and purely silent Quaker-type meditation sessions described by the Quaker community as unprogrammed worship groups (gathering for silent meditation in cooperative unity, no leader, teacher or minister's presentation).

• Resources for reaching Inner Union: We encourage all who feel drawn to find their own inner direct connection to the collective higher conscious. We offer group support for this, but also encourage individuals to practice on their own, and not depend on an outside source or allow others to replace their direct individual unity. At our gatherings and through our weblog and web pages, we review and suggest resources for one's own private practice that matches their own individual starting point.
• Nature Stewardship: We treat Gaia as a living entity made from the same source as humankind, and within the family of greater heavenly bodies. We steward our local bio-region of the Pacific Northwest in a variety of ways, and we've chosen one of the greatest areas of need, the poor of South Africa, as well as France, a place that's held many mysteries into the earth and its place in the higher universe, to tithe towards in this stewardship mission. Our website is the best window to see these activities in detail, how you can participate, and how they overlap with our international outreach and African orphan project.

• Healing with Horses: Next to dolphins and whales, horses are one of the most healing and telepathic relationships humans have with other mammals. Dolphins tend to lead us, showing us how to surrender. Horses tend to ask us to lead them; it's their nature in the wild to have a caring, trustworthy leader. And by this, we remember our own worthiness and that we can be trusted. We work with and learn from healing horse farms across the country, and they repeatedly tell us that in spite of other exotic land animals they have on the farm, horses, especially with children, are the greatest draw. While many wonderful farms and ranches offer highly controlled settings for the physically and mentally disabled, our approach is more free and casual for the less challenged (but no less starving for animals and nature!). We have two rescued miniature horses donated for our use for a variety of horse experiences. See children's ministry below, and our American website, for more detail, knowing that this service also applies to grown-ups.
• Spiritual Journaling: Besides our Nature Temple journaling, we organize and facilitate indoor candlelight journaling sessions, including writing letters to the heart. Please let us know if you'd like to participate. We lead writers from their active left brain hemisphere across the corpus callosum to their right brain hemisphere, which is said to have a stronger connection to the heart intelligence, which is in turn said to be a direct connection to higher realms of guidance. No belief systems are preached in these sessions, and hobby journalers as well as professional writers of many beliefs have enjoyed these sessions as methods to increase their talent, creative spark, professional writers' voice and insights.
• Inspired Artistry/Creativity:
  • Art was once not separate from one's spirit; it was a direct expression of it. Times changed. Much authentic and direct-from-spirit creativity was lost as connection to our own spirit was lost. Art became an expression of social conditioning and of unbalanced patriarchal values, as in wearing clothing designed by others to match the latest cool teen idol, or using teenage girls posed in positions conditioned to be provocative in commercial and fine art to sell products to a society now separated but starving for deeper meaningful union with the other gender. A study of a recent artistic photography magazine revealed 9 instances of naked white young women with inhuman polished ivory hairless skin used as objects in the photographs, and one of an unclothed baby, with zero unclothed men, children, older people or other natural ethnic peoples. This imbalance, (vs. natural human nudity per se) is a wonderful mirror into our current society's weaknesses. A study from the art museum in the Netherlands revealed a large addiction to depicting naked attractive women in fine art vs. the Greek and Roman period where idealistic and realistic nudity was depicted usually in equal numbers, and vs. the matriarch period, where the pregnant female body was honored in art with much less apparent appreciation for the male contribution to life. We believe that many of the arts still, however, have always been a vehicle for higher understanding, even if hidden in the background, because there are universal truths that a small but still part of our hearts and minds still recognize regardless of outer conditioning. The Phantom of the Opera, for example, depicts a young woman cut off from her inner masculine connection. She is timid and attached to an external and unhealthy male relationship as a false source of masculine energy and strength. A new sincere young man comes into her life with potential for a healthy male/female union. But he, too, is not yet in tune with his inner feminine, and he does not yet take seriously or recognize what she's trying to tell him. Only until she unites with her inner masculine, giving her femininity the power to deal with the Phantom, and only when the young man goes the distance it takes to find respect and at last understand the inner feminine, does she make the break from her unhealthy past and go towards sacred union with her new partner. We periodically hold art discussions, readings and sacred cinema gatherings to inspire a new, respectful and more mature renaissance in the spirited arts arena.
  • We see a new renaissance in art in the making that will be even more inspirational than the previous patriarchal renaissance. But even more, when participating in art vs. just viewing others' art, we more strongly access our brain's right hemisphere. This hemisphere is said to directly lead to the deep chamber of heart intelligence being studied by the HeartMath Institute and others who suggest this heart chamber is a more direct link to the Creative Force of the Greater Good. Times are changing again. Mandalas and art therapy have entered the realm of spirit and healing. Art workshops based on right brain intelligence have created profound progress in arts talent. We hold various art workshops as ways to access that creative force, a higher talent, and deeper connection. Any belief system may participate in our creativity and art workshops, and many use our workshops simply for increase in their artistic talent. These include or will include the artistry of writing (see above), painting, drawing, cooking, music, dance and sacred architecture.
• Sacred Healing: Healings are offered by appointment (see our tenets on this healing modality below). We like to discuss your desires ahead of time either in person or via e-mail. Approximately one-hour sessions. Wear comfortable clothing; sessions take place fully clothed in a healing room on massage table, and consist of the integration of certified and/or highly trained hands-on energy healing including Reiki, Quantum-Touch, Therapeutic Touch and relaxation response therapy. HeartMath, aromatherapy and healing music are often integrated into the sessions. You may choose to add your own healing prayers, invocations or visualizations. Healings aim to take you to a deep, reassuring place within yourself where your own body's healing mechanisms can be released, as well as offer techniques you can take home with you. Cost is donation of your choice. Tax deductible receipt available based on current healing session prices in our location (any donation amount beyond the current average rate of healing sessions can be tax deductible). Average healing sessions are currently between $35 and $65. When time and situation allow, we offer a one-time healing session to those currently unable to afford a meaningful donation. We treat energy and hands-on healings as many treat taking herbs or asking others to pray for them. The healing happens from within the one who seeks the healing, and their inner guidance has directed them as to which, if any, type of assistance or environment the body desires to allow itself to heal.
• Baptisms of Light: Similar to a healing session with the added intention of a new beginning. Offered to those we have come to know well through church work, healing work, or other positive relationships. WG sees all people as potential unmediated channels for the Creative Intelligence needing no permission but their own to discover this part of themselves, and sees no original sin that humankind comes to earth with and therefore, nothing negative to be cleansed of, but rather, as Eckhart Tolle has described it, some of us have "absorbed the collective pain body" that masks our inborn joy and connection. When people embark on a journey back out into the light, they often like to initiate it, mark a closing and/or seal it with a tangible spiritual ceremony. Ritual can be a way of speaking the language of the Whole, and is a form of prayer for some people. The baptism of light allows two or more to gather in recognition that you have embarked on this journey. This session includes a foot anointing with oils of spikenard and essential rose or frankincense and myrrh, a certificate of baptism of light, and your own written declaration of your intent. Cost is a donation of your choice. You may choose to have your donation go towards missions to African orphans, American children's missions, general minister services, or any WG project.
• New Ritual, Festival and Celebration: We have hosted festivals, celebrations, rituals and ceremonies as enjoyable, celebrative, and meaningful expressions of an inner Grace that's already established, to add simplicity and loveliness to an already beautiful and happening life that doesn't, ironically, depend on older forms of specific external authoritarian ritual to make something happen. We also embrace the emerging science behind the power of prayer, holistic expression, energy vortexes, and the elements of nature. The current writings of our Celtic friends document why spells and magic work on a scientific level, and it is very similar to why certain power centers of the earth are so moving, and why prayer has been found to have a concrete, provable force beyond placebo effect. We feel that a person's inner spirit may attract situations, people, or events into their lives which might remind them of their deeper voice within. If ritual turns out to be one's first gateway or remembrance, we see this as one of many doorways for that particular person that happened to show up, rather than something that must be forever replicated for everyone for fear of losing inner unity. Group festivals have included harvest celebrations, May Day festivals and divine feminine gatherings. More private ceremonies, such as our baptism of light, are always a choice coming from something already within the individual who chooses the ceremony. In some cases, there are those who choose it specifically to symbolize no longer needing any outside authority. Just as yoga practice can help one get quiet and reach an inner state, the inner state was already there, and our ceremonial and healing services are results of choices that come from that place already within, rather than external replacements for inner unity.
• Interbelief Crossroads: We purposeful seek to network, partner and cross paths with other belief systems for beneficial causes and celebration based on healing, love and peace. Examples are our May Day festivals shared with a huge cross section of belief systems, and our Water/Whale Meditation day where spiritual and energy healers from around the Pacific Northwest sent healing to our local waters in a variety of methods, from traditional prayer, to calling forth native ancestors to telepathic whale communication.
• Lost Lamb Mission: While we tithe and serve more publicly known projects, we also tithe to those unseen by the crowds, such as the recently singled small town mother. As another example of our Lost Lamb services, we chose to work in South Africa with the poorest of the poor, in the worst possible conditions, condemned to the most terminal of diseases (including AIDS), as a mission to help restore the lost as found and valuable, as treasures once hidden to be remembered. These people have much to offer the rest of the world, and that is the light that guides us towards them, the light that we continually see. As they begin to find this part of themselves again, miracles happen. An unprecedented case occurred when 1000 rands were raised by the destitute in a garbage dump shack town to contribute towards the non-profit group coming in to help them.
• Healing Temple: We gather with energy and spiritual healers, those who are experienced at what they do without trying to push a viewpoint, control the crowd, or sell a specific healing modality, to take healing to places in need: Church groups, social service groups, overworked Red Cross volunteers during disasters, all are welcome to call for a possible healing temple. Depending on the circumstances, it operates both as a free service (especially during emergencies) on a donation only basis, or as a set fee situation.
• Ordinations: We will act as one of the two necessary legally ordained ministers needed for ordination for our affiliate SHES church for those who are legally nominated and are sincerely seeking ordination, and we will refer other ministers within our wide network, from New Thought Christian to Nature-based, who also offer ministry training and the legal ordination of ministers.
• Sacred Union Weddings
  • See our Sacred Union Wedding & Marriage Project. As long the situation allows, we do free spiritual mentoring and personal coaching via e-mail on the concept of sacred union within a healthy potential or current healthy marriage, as well as ideas on sacred union wedding ritual and ceremony. We do not practice pre-marital, troubled relationship, nor secular licensed marriage or counseling, and therefore those services need to be sought elsewhere, but we will refer ministers within our circle of churches who specialize in spiritual help for relationships, as well as excellent self-help relationship resources such as Undefended Love workshops and HeartMath for couples. When the situation and volume allows, we perform sacred union marriages for those who have done the inner work we prescribe, and as per the legal restrictions and within normal fee limits within the State of Washington, and we will also refer other ministers within our spiritual affiliations who offer the performance of marriages to see if their methods or locations are better suited to your needs.
  • We help plan and officiate weddings that resonate with our specialty of simple, small union ceremonies in nature or other smaller inspired locations. Preliminary recommendations include participation by both parties in an Undefended Love Workshop, and a HeartMath workshop, and include our mentoring for a "Sacred Union in Heaven ceremony" before the public official ceremony. We will also recommend ministers within our spiritual affiliations who are willing to do other types of ceremonies, including those requiring crowd management and larger facility control.
• Sacred Union Wedding & Marriage Project: For this project, we explore and offer insights on an emerging new union between male and female. It includes chosen faithfulness as a source of higher love and heightened sexuality rather than a form of repression or restraint, sacred masculine and sacred feminine discovery, new ceremonies and rituals including those that raise the bodies' frequencies closer to that of Heaven's to unite the couple in that state, preliminary relationship work of finding the inner marriage of male and female within oneself. In this relationship, sex is a joyful result of a union achieved on higher levels than the physical first, rather than a means to get there. Therefore, sexual union then heightens and integrates into itself many more aspects of each individual's being: self-mastery, self-worth, sense of being recognized by the other gender as valued, excitement of going in partnership someplace that's new to humankind, and so on. For many years, there have been two polarities on sex conflicting with each other: Sex is sin, or sex is meaningless short-lived irresponsible recreation. Between the two is a older marriage paradigm, a luke-warm forced faithfulness based on guilt or fear, that sometimes leads participants closer to the sex as sin end of the pole, and sometimes one partner creeps closer to sex as meaningless, shorlived, irresponsible recreation. We see these two polarities as operating on the same level of intelligence. Floating above these two polarities is a Great Invitation that puts sexual union back into its place of origin in a new form of union between male and female. Our American weblog lists periodical insights and reviewed resources and shares others' contributions in this manner.

• Orphans of Africa: We work to help African orphans rekindle their unique inner Grace, and then help them build an external 21st Century heaven congruent to the rebirth and potential to the world of their beautiful Mother Africa. Our website best describes this international outreach program.
• American Adoption & Foster Children: America has an estimated half a million children in foster care, 35,000 children waiting for adoption, and numerous adoptive families. When volume allows, we spiritually mentor free of charge or for any donation of one's choice*, with adoptive parents looking for ways to create family bonds with adopted children, including those who came out of the foster care program. We have two decades of experience and professional training with this.
• Children's group meditation and ritual: We collectively have three decades of experience in leading children's meditation groups and nature ceremonies. As volume allows, we minister to others looking to create or lead such programs for free or for any donation of their choice.*
• Creating the Village project: Parents have been blessed with many books and ideas on how to add spirit without dogma to their kids' lives, and how to enjoy time at home with kids without TV and other mechanisms controlled by the human altered ego. But the constant planning for these things with little outside village support sometimes leaves parents with little time to relax into a village themselves, one that handles it for a while. Where is the spirit-filled village that holds and rejuvenates the entire family and allows restorative alpha states, non-planning states for the parents also? Where are the social members who re-enforce life affirming values along with parents, so they can be strengthened by society instead of drained from always having to fight its negative influences? If we look closely, though, there is a village rising that supports group activities for children that can become that village, and the more we focus and give them light, the more the village can grow. One of the ministers of WG is on a journey to find, review and make known to others group activities that have those special qualities that seem to plug children and teens back into their inner wisdom and sense of unity with all. Although they may be fun, they are not superficial and short-lived with TV tie-ins. Although they may be exhilaratingly challenging, they are not merely a form of addictive adrenalin stimulation. From self-governed children's nature-play areas to new schools to teen rites of passage, these are reported for you on our World Grace American Weblog under the "Creating the Village" category.
• New Schools: New forms of education are underway allowing spirit, metaphysics, heart consciousness, quantum sciences, and intuition connected to a Greater Good without imposing dogma or religion. In some cases, they even continue to allow the separation of church and state. Some describe themselves as "cultural creative education," "whole brain learning, heart-centered learning," "authentic new village learning," and some include study of the phenomenon of children born with indigo or opalescent ethereal life colors. We have vast experience collectively adding up to three decades on all of these areas, from mainstream education to our own childhood readings by Nancy Anne Tappe to new forms of learning and new forms of child raising. We have experience with and have consulted with new schools being formed from Japan to USA to Europe to South Africa. For free or for a donation of your choice if consultation becomes very involved.*
• Healing with Horses: We have access to two miniature horses that have experience being "loved" by groups of children and adults. We have and will continue to conduct this ministry for free, or for donation* that goes to their owners' for horse upkeep, or for this or other WG children's projects, depending on our current situation.

  *We follow a balancing flow of incoming and outgoing prosperity. We begin by giving freely. When it's then time to receive, replenish and fund our ministries, we focus on services for donation to those who can afford to contribute. When we have received to the point of supporting our ministries, more services are offered for free to those who temporarily cannot afford to donate. There are always, however, at least some services offered for no charge.

After first knowing our own home well, we reach out by deepening the understanding and strengthening the tapestry of interwoven unified oneness through services and goodwill exchanges with other cultures and countries. Our two focuses are currently South Africa, a place with huge need and huge potential, and France, a place that holds secrets of the sacred feminine and sacred masculine. Our website is the current best window into our international outreach, as well as how we interpret Grace on our chosen American location, complete with ongoing weblog progress reports. Our international outreach's mission statement is: Exploring how and where the world is becoming a better place based on universal principles of love and peace. Contributing to making them happen through education, action, and partnerships with organizations of a common vision.

We are here to contribute nourishment to the individual and community human soul, and explore mysteries of the collective universal soul, with the intention of evolving as time progresses. We operate independently while networking as partners in a worldwide movement towards the next human paradigm.

We feel that individual humans have their own capacity for direct access to a higher organizing soul and can eventually access and live from that realm where the Inner Teacher guides the individual to do no harm, neither to him or herself, nor to the greater good, without hierarchy or external controlling dogma.

We do not discount, however, that society can make this connection difficult to find and maintain. "Enlightenment" can be imitated by the altered ego, and the collective altered ego can be very forceful. We offer a number of tools among many offered by others to strengthen the inner realm of peace, artistry and love, our own personal Grace that connects us to the loving collective soul of the earth and heavens, the organizing intelligence of the universe.

From the point of Grace, we find ways to express it outwardly according to the individual's choice into a beautiful new earth, with continued exploration of the mysteries of the universe and the part we play in it, from deeper understandings of the many ancient wisdom traditions that help us access our direct connection to Higher Intelligence, to discovering brand new frontiers where spirit and science, soul and physical, begin to merge.

We see spirituality as an ongoing quest for deeper understanding. While some universal truths remain eternal, the methods and roads that lead to them may change, and the ability to comprehend even higher eternal truths will expand.

We see spirituality is an ongoing study that evolves within human consciousness and is not necessarily in conflict with science, in fact, that they can be one in the same using different languages. As in spirituality and science, one step illuminates the next.

Many traditions from both the ancient matriarch and the more recent patriarch, including: Native American, Native African, Muslim, Christian, Atheism, Paganism, Eastern Philosophy and the others, have shown alignment with higher principles, support of the individual and contribution to the Greater Good, and can also claim an associated dark side of sacrifice of other living things, live burnings of innocent people, public torture, degradation of women as sex objects or second class beneath men, discounting or scorning the sacred masculine, and terrorism or unprovoked invasion of others. Awareness of this can be useful as a reminder of the golden rule of not finger-pointing before knowing the others' original truth, and a leverage point to then humbly move towards the light summit we are all headed for, refusing and releasing darkness we now see we do not need, and freely choosing whichever starting point resonates with us.

Some choose to start with Christianity, others their Celtic, African, Hebrew, Siberian Shamanic, Taoist, Hawaiian or Native American heritage. Some choose atheism or agnosticism. We see no value in pushing our starting point onto another, and quietly invite those so moved to join any of our work that's open to them, while those on other roads continue there, with the faith that we're all headed for the same center, slowly becoming closer and closer together, integrating like a symphony, yet not homogenizing, but remaining true to our uniqueness, which creates a diversified social symphony rather than a monotone.

We are not concerned with which philosophy, world-view or religion a person follows, but how much inner joy that person receives from it and what kind of person their philosophy, world-view or religion helps them become. Those of any other world viewpoint are welcome to join many of our activities if done sincerely (see discipline and personal responsibility, below).

In that sense, we feel the world can transform one graceful person at a time, from within, yet we balance that by not necessarily being non-active in the face of obvious external dark sides, regardless of which viewpoint it claims to have sprung from. Our aim is for any actions we take to come from a place of grace and inner peace first, which then guides our action. This then merges the two worlds of inner heaven with its natural outer expression coming as a result. When we "fight those who attack us," it's more in a manner that would remove the need for war and remove their need to attack. We are not pacifists in any sense to letting dark behavior go unchecked, but instead gratefully thanking it and using it to point out which better direction to aim for.

Reiki, Laying on of Hands, and other forms of energy healing can be, we believe, the opposite of hierarchal priesthood or mediumship, where another person outside ourselves must forever be the conduit between ourselves as individuals, and the divine. We give and receive Reiki as a "re-membering" tool, a friend pointing the way to find your own direct road. A hand-up to personal reconnection, not a hand-out of someone else's interpretation of connection. Some people see these healings as an agnostic form of raising the speed and efficiency of the body's electrons. Others see it as the Holy Spirit entering in them. All interpretations are fine with us. Stories mount of healings, and life seeming to shift to a more positive direction, and even just the ability to "hear" some sort of inner guidance that says, "Turn right," when otherwise we may have automatically turned left, and missed a great opportunity. We see Reiki as just one of many gates to choose towards a greater connection to the Higher Good.

We acknowledge here that we see the laying on of hands as a higher, spiritual energy form of healing completely different that that of our massage therapist friends. A few misinformed people in power in the massage industry (a modality we respect and enjoy receiving ourselves) are moving towards forcing those who do laying on of hands to obtain massage therapy licenses and education in order to legally offer laying on of hands, when the laying on of hands is quite opposite of massage therapy, and ministers and healers often cannot take the year or two out of their lives nor spend the $10,000 or so on massage school to learn a modality they have no intention of ever using, and which can actually get in the way of the non-analytical, silent method of laying on of hands. Those who come to us for this form of healing are invited to let us know if the light touching of hands on their bodies is permissible, if they have, perhaps, just certain areas that should not be touched, and if they have any medical condition in which touching or reaching the back of the head should be avoided. The energy emanating from the palms can also be received by putting the palms near the body rather than resting on it, and clients can roll over in a manner comfortable to them for access to the spinal area rather than having the practitioner reach under them while they lie on their backs. Some people have been physically abused, and prefer to avoid touch only in certain areas of the body. A professional health care practitioner of your choice should be consulted first if you have any questions on receiving or making special requests before receiving Reiki/Laying on of Hands.

Places of worship: Our center of activity and headquarters are currently 4925 Sharpe Road, Anacortes - Fidalgo Island, WA 98221. The World Grace Foundation owns no real estate and uses private or public locations rented, bartered or donated for its use.

Discipline and individual responsibility: Minister discipline is handled by our first Mother Church. No one who participates has to already adhere to our starting point or outlook. For example, we've had numerous conservative Christians enjoy our May Day festivals without ever leaving their own original outlooks. And those of many beliefs participate in our writing and art activities. For those who join in our activities or take part in our services, there is occasionally a release that must first be signed. We gather for support, sharing and inquiry. Our organization is not for those who would use it for obvious illegal or dark activities. But nor is it for more subtle undesirable acts, those who enjoy arguing in groups for the endorphins that perpetual arguing puts in their brains, want to use our church to rebel against friends or family, want to "spy" and then ridicule or gossip about the ministers, participants, and their spiritual practices once away from the group, intimidate ministers or others participating in our activities simply by "showing up" because of fabricated or genuine interest when they have knowing secular or other issues with ministers or regular participants not resolved outside the church before joining in, to drop off unwilling minor or adult children to be babysat or "fixed," nor to simply meet possible singles or hide from responsibility. Minister and regular participant complaints are listened to and taken into consideration and on occasion, participants will be asked to vote on a decision. Meditation and discussion among the director and co-director are used to determine more subtle abuses and choose who will be invited to stay away.

The founding body of the World Grace Foundation started as volunteer spiritual and service work and various spiritual studies. In 2003, WG became a certified congregation of the International Assembly of Spiritual Healers and Earth Stewards (SHES), a 501c3 recognized religious corporation in the State of Washington. The congregation did not yet operate formally as a church or non-profit organization of its own, and we worked voluntarily or as individual self-employed healers or mentors. We became organized as our own church in 2005 when we registered as our own independent nonprofit spiritual corporation in the state of Washington, and independently received our own federal EIN number as a church. In 2006, we registered with the North American Quaker organization to add Quaker worship services to our program and to seek others wishing to join. We further attained affiliated with The Center for Progressive Christianity (TCPC), our new mother church with whom we share the following thoughts expressed by TCPC:

Do you find more grace in the search for meaning than in absolute certainty, in the questions rather than in the answers?

The claim that Jesus offers the only access to God for all people promotes attitudes that lead to racial and ethnic divisions.

• Celtic study:
  • Ancient Celtic: Studied in London, and in France's Brittany and Normandy, all ancient Celtic kingdoms. Celtic tradition is as diverse as Native American and Christianity and has evolved as much as science has over the thousands of years of its existence, and yet some of its core information based on peace, love, and understanding of the systems of the earth, cosmos and human consciousness still hold true, and bind them with the heart-driven or inspired core of all religions and greater sacred scientific understandings.
  • Certified in the school of study taught by Dr. Doreen Virtue in spiritual therapy, laws pertaining to spiritual counseling, and working with those seeking the angelic, ancestor and faerie realms. We found this viewpoint interesting. Those of many viewpoints, including Catholic ministers and new metaphysical seekers, joined in this study. It was helpful in seeing where many others' current starting points are. For us, it best serves as one of several areas to explore.
  • Evolved Sacred Celtic tradition. This area of study comes from varying sources including our own inner meditations, initiations with other ministers, and with new practices used for finding inner light, higher realms, and serving humanity and nature. Literature is held sacred within our church for genuine seekers.
  • Celtic Festivals: We have organized, hosted and facilitated May Day, Winter and Summer Solstice, and Autumn and Spring Equinox celebrations, often with many people of many faiths participating, and will continue to do so depending on current ministries and projects going on at the time.
• Hands-on and Sacred Healing:
  • Reiki certified Mastership including one-year apprenticeship to Master, and practicing since 1999
  • Therapeutic Touch certification
  • Quantum-Touch apprenticeship
  • Axiatonal energy healing, similar to the healing taught as "the Reconnection™"
  • Certified Theta healer
  • Ordination as minister and congregation into the International Assembly of Spiritual Healers and Earth Stewards.
  • Co-director's grandmother was one of the first professional female hands-on healers in America.
  • Ongoing: We regularly formally meet with practicing healers worldwide and share new insights for our continual evolution
• Christian, Christian related, New Thought, Quaker
  • Regular ongoing study with Seattle Unity church with continued contact with various Christian churches and their ministers, including the Pilgrim Congregational Church
  • Co-director has participated as Born Again Christian
  • We have childhood Christian backgrounds which included Sunday school, baptism and Bible school.
  • Founder has Quaker ancestors. Other past relatives, John and Abigail Adams and extended family, were Unitarian Universalists. Founder has self-studied these two belief systems and WG now holds Quaker gatherings in the tradition that Jeshua was a human example, and that the divine or Christ is within. Our Quaker services are the unprogrammed type grounded in silence for reaching connection with the Inward Teacher, avoiding all dogma. WG's current center of activity is registered with the North American Quaker information center as a place of Quaker worship.
  • Co-director experienced metaphysical and religious historical teachings and youth leadership of the Pilgrim Congregational Church and Presbyterian Church
  • Pending affiliate of the International Alliance of New Thought Churches
• Native American
  • Co-director became leader in and facilitated boys through various Native American and nature rituals.
  • Hosted and organized women's spiritual retreat blessed and facilitated by local Native American
  • Ongoing: Participate in local Native American study and events
• African
  • Founder traveled to South Africa to learn with traditional Zulu king and shaman
  • WG continues African spiritual study through ongoing correspondence with South African sister non-profit which works with traditional African spiritual healer (a Sangoma)
• Ancient Hebrew: Founder completed Kabbalah 101 through the national Kabbalah center
• Eastern
  • Trainings and regular practice in various meditation techniques
  • Co-director completed formal study on the Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
• Science meets Spirit: Participation and study in ongoing study groups and think tanks on scientific research and validation of prayer, distant healing, hands-on healing, focused energy, heart intelligence (HeartMath), the indigo and opalescent phenomena, and direct connection with higher consciousness
• Hawaiian Kahuna: Founder studied and participated in ancient healing and spiritual Huna practice led by professional Huna teacher and personal/professional coach, Don Clarkson
• Art/Journaling/Creative Writing
  • Founder: AA degree and upper college level training in the arts and writing and professional writing experience
  • Co-director: upper college level training in the arts, art show acceptance, and professional art experience.
  • Ongoing participation in continuing education art and writing workshops and seminars
  • Professional and volunteer teaching of art, personal journaling, professional writing, publishing and creative writing to children and adults.
• Focus on Children and Teens
  • Co-director: Ten years' experience with children and teens growth stages, creativity and outdoor nature activities and rituals
  • Founder: 20 years' experience both professional and volunteer teaching and mentoring children ages eight through 12 in art, writing, meditation, ritual, and cooperative play
  • Founder: Professional training in the needs of foster and special-needs adopted children.