Venue Category: Diocese of Olympia

As part of the missionary outreach for the Diocese of Olympia, Camp Huston’s purpose is to provide a hospitable experience for everyone. They’re open to all religions, races, gender expressions and identities, national origins, and sexual orientations.

Camp Huston located in the Cascade foothills. They’re situated next to the beautiful Wallace Falls State Park.

They’re an ACA Accredited center, voluntarily adhering to more than 150 standards to ensure the safety of all our guests.

Their small group model allows for campers to learn more about themselves and others in a community based in the Episcopal faith. However, they welcome campers and staff from all backgrounds, serving ages 6-15. If older than 15, apply to be part of their summer camp staff team.

Camp Huston offers week-long Discovery Camps, a 3-night Mini Camp for younger campers, and Horse Camps!

In addition, Camp Huston can host other types of gatherings, accommodating groups of between 10 and 150 people, and with varying budgets.

Typically, they serve churches and other non-profit gatherings including, but not limited to, vestries, youth groups, family camps, school classes, quilting guilds, and scrapbooking groups. As a matter of fact, so long as your organization is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, you should be able to work together. Unfortunately Camp Huston can not serve family reunions or other private functions at this time.

The Camp provides food service in their beautiful dining hall, where all meals are prepared on-site by our loving Food Service Manager Teri. Teri can accommodate most dietary needs and food allergies. Please submit dietary information at least ten days prior to the beginning of a retreat.

At Camp Huston, they believe in providing quality and choice at mealtimes. As a result, their kitchen staff puts out a well-stocked salad bar to accompany every lunch and dinner. They accompany every breakfast with eggs, oatmeal, and a selection of yogurts, cereal, and juices. Guests can enjoy fresh coffee in the dining hall, as well as black tea, green tea, herbal tea, hot chocolate, and spiced cider. They serve meals family style, to encourage guests interacting in a community setting. Above all, they hope that guests enjoy the stunning view of Mount Index and Mount Persis from your table.

The Sacred Waters Center for Restoration and Retreat is an inclusive community rooted in rest and renewal, where every being is affirmed, all spiritual paths are honored, and the Earth herself is our healing teacher and guide.

Sacred Waters is an affirming interspiritual call to rest and human-ecological renewal. We are at home in the following:

• Our common union
• Honoring our inherent wholeness
• Unfolding together within the practice of tenderness

Guided by the following:

• Great love which holds us all
• Soft pulse of tree roots
• Quiet tides that move through stillness and wild spaces

We offer inclusive welcome and a warm bowl of soup, remembering that when what is hard meets what is holy, healing flows outward into the world.

Core Values

Affirmation and Inclusion

Embrace and affirm LGBTQIA2S+ identities and creating a space of radical belonging for all by making space for the vulnerable and essential work of cultivating healthy relationships, supporting greater mutual understanding between diverse peoples.

Interspirituality

Honor diverse spiritual paths and wisdom traditions rooted in shared sacredness beyond religious boundaries.

Rest and Renewal

Value rest as a sacred, healing act, committing to both human and ecological renewal.

Wholeness and Interconnection

Recognize the inherent wholeness in each person by celebrating our interconnectedness with each other and the Earth.

Tenderness and Compassion

Practice tenderness as a spiritual and communal discipline by offering care, warmth, and nourishment.

Sacred Activism

Trust that healing flows when what is hard meets what is holy and committing to transformation through love, stillness, and presence.

Nature as Sacred Guide

Listen to and learn from the wisdom of the natural and creaturely world, guided by the rhythms of trees, tides, and wild spaces.

Sacred Waters offering

The Episcopal Diocese of Olympia stands at a transformative moment;

• To expand missional capacity
• To deepen commitment to healing and wholeness, racial equity and creation care

This property offers the facilities and spaces to expand our mission of hospitality toward the cultivation of creative practices in these areas:

• Racial and environmental justice
• Prayer
• Community

The existing ministries of the Circles of Color, Creation Care, Harmony Retreats of Cancer Lifeline and St. Andrew’s House have come together on the beautiful Hood Canal to develop this new collaborative calling, which combined with the St. Andrew’s House facilities, now forms The Sacred Waters Center for Restoration and Retreat.