Our Community Calendar
These are the activities currently happening or beginning in 2026 open to all neighbors seeking to uplift themselves and our community.
Monday – Friday: Silent Sitting Meditation
7:00 – 8:00 PM
A simple period of quiet stillness is open to anyone in the community. Like a wild horse, the mind can be destructive if not trained, but offers stability when disciplined. So we sit together in silence daily on the residence side in the library to practice calm, upright sitting while training our attention on the breath.
Simply knock at the East (Residence) door. No experience required. Basic sitting instruction is available here but no need to prep, we talk through it when new friends come.
Saturdays – Drop-In Community Garden
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
April through October
Neighbors are invited to join us to help plant, weed, harvest, preserve, or simply learn about growing food together. This is a relaxed, hands-on time where people of all ages can participate in whatever phase we are working on. If weather is poor, we’ll be working on sanctuary projects or in the downstairs greenhouse! If things look quiet, please knock on the East residence door by the fence.
Sunday Open Organ & Sanctuary
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
April through October
Beginning Easter Sunday, April 5, 2026, the sanctuary will open each Sunday at noon for quiet sitting and for anyone wanting to enjoy the stained glass windows and a moment of communion. Musicians desiring to play the historic organ are welcome on Sunday afternoons to come and play the instrument in the sanctuary. Otherwise, recorded music or uplifting musical or natural films may be playing on the sanctuary screen.
Please note that the sanctuary is a generally held in silence or in music only to respect its original purpose and founding principles. Of course, we lift the silence of course for councils, singing, trainings, or during movie nights.
Kindly observe quiet as much as possible and reserve comments and conversations for outside as with any sanctuary, chapel, or sacred space.
If you have questions or want to chat, feel free to drop by during Saturday garden hours, which are very relaxed. You can also text the sanctuary line with more time-sensitive matters or questions at 801-663-9360.
BEGINNING IN MAY
Wednesdays & Saturdays – Youth Karate & Focus Training
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM Wednesdays
10:00 AM – 11:30 PM Saturdays
The Sanctuary will soon house a family karate offering, as the dojo of our local, karate instructor Brent Addenbrooke is moving from the YMCA in Kenton. Learn more about Family Karate at Ohio’s Forest Sanctuary here.
Calling all neighbors interested in the 2026 community gardening season!
All in our village who are interested in participating in the community garden effort or any other offerings planned for the year are warmly invited to join us on Saturdays.
We are sending prayers and goodwill to Kathy Long, who served our community so well in the 2025 season and sadly met with a nasty fall in February and fractured her hip! We are so thankful to her and her husband Barry who have been the founding parents of our effort and have worked so hard for our neighborhood garden.
Any the new friends interested in helping to carry on the goodness she’s begun will have a chance to join what we’ll call “Kathy’s Crew” this year, in honor of her service as a founding member of our Forest community garden last year. We love you, Kathy!
Drop by on Saturday!
Neighbors able to do so are encouraged to become Friends of the Organ with a $8 monthly contribution to ensure the beautiful historic pipe organ is safely kept at the right humidity and temperature year-round and that its sanctuary is preserved to serve the village for many years to come.
All opportunities are freely offered to all — everyone joining us in the spirit of neighborly care is welcome.