About Stony Point Center

Long-term vision for the "Fifth Generation" at Stony Point Center

Stony Point Center will celebrate its sixtieth anniversary in 2009. In many ways, our history can be told as a story of five generations:

*During the 1950’s, Gilmor Sloane House was both a spiritual home and a cultural crossroads for students and church leaders from around the world who came for a time of rest and reflection.

*During the 1960’s and early 1970’s, with the addition of the Missionary Orientation Center, SPC was home for up to six months at a time for hundreds of outgoing mission workers from the Presbyterian Church and six, sister denominations.

*From the late 1970’s through the 1980’s, Stony Point become a place of sanctuary for faith-based activists working for human rights around the world, becoming known as a place of both encounter and refuge.

*Through the last decade and a half, much of the identity of Stony Point Center has been wrapped up in creating a place of safety for a widely diverse community of people from different faith, cultural, and class backgrounds.

Now, with guidance from a highly invested governing board, a skilled staff, and a committed group of volunteers, SPC is forging a new vision for the next generation. Over the next several years, even as we continue to provide hospitality for our many guests, we dream that SPC will become the spiritual home for a community of faith that is dedicated to promoting nonviolence and justice in a world addicted to violence and caught up in fear.

Our hope is that there will at least three different faith communities (Christian, Muslim, and Jewish) that will choose to ground their work here at SPC. Together, they will commit to a practice of daily prayer, work to heal communities of violence in the world, hallow the material goods that sustain them, and commit to a practice of radical hospitality through the conference facilities of Stony Point Center.

Over the coming years, you can expect to participate in suburban agriculture/organic gardening projects here on the property. The buildings will become showcases for creative, low-cost ways to conserve energy and protect God’s Creation. You will be invited into a rich practice of spirituality with the members of the community. The "Faithful Feasting" food ministry at Stony Point will be an experience in healthy, simple, high-quality, and sustainably produced meals. There will be programs that help to develop the skills necessary to counter the fear and the violence that characterize the broader culture.

As we journey into the new vision for Stony Point, we look forward to reconnecting with the friends of Stony Point’s past who have created such a powerful legacy upon which we build.

Rick and Kitty Ufford-Chase,
Stony Point Center, November 14, 2008

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