Lake Junaluska offers spiritual enrichment opportunities that will challenge your heart and mind. Attend stimulating lectures, worship services, and seminars to learn and grow stronger in your faith. Many of our workshops and retreats allow time for personal and spiritual reflection in addition to opportunities to connect with others and learn from their spiritual journeys.
Year-Round
Experience a personal spiritual retreat at Lake Junaluska with the focus of growing your relationship with God. Self-directed and guided opportunities are available. Read More.
October 19-21, 2018
Enjoy the incredible beauty of fall foliage at Lake Junaluska this October during Choir Music Weekend. Along with others from small and medium sized church choirs, experience a worship-filled weekend as participants learn and perform eight anthems that may then be performed at participants' home churches. Read More
November 12-14 and November 14-16, 2018
Join renowned Biblical historian, archeologist and scholar Dr. James Fleming as he explains Scripture as it related in Biblical times and its continued relevance today. Read More
March 21-23, 2019
Join us for a weekend on gratitude, led by Diana Butler Bass (Ph.D Duke University), award-winning author and internationally known public speaker and thought leader on issues of spirituality, religion, culture, and politics.
Lake Junaluska Lodging/Meal Packages: include 2 nights lodging and breakfast on Friday through breakfast on Saturday. Call 800-222-4930 to make lodging reservations. (Ask for the First Light Production room block.)
Program Registration:
Registration $225
Register at: www.firstlightproductions.org/registration
Learn more at: www.firstlightproductions.org or email Jennifer McSwain Martin at Jennifer@firstlightproductions.org.
June 9 - August 4, 2019
Join us for spirited worship services led by internationally known preachers on Sunday mornings at Lake Junaluska in Stuart Auditorium at 10:45 a.m. On Monday nights throughout the summer, renew your soul in our contemplative Taize services of prayer and song held in Memorial Chapel. Read More.
June 23-28, 2019
Music & Worship Arts Week is an event highlighting worship, the arts, education, and renewal in the beautiful mountains of North Carolina at Lake Junaluska. It is designed for all worship leaders of all ages: musicians, artists, dancers, actors and pastors. Read More.
Spend three soul-tending days with Dr. Jack Levison and Rev. Dr. Priscilla Pope Levison, professors at SMU Perkins School of Theology, authors and sought after event speakers. (1 CEU Credit available.)
Lake Junaluska Lodging and Meal Packages available starting at: $161/person. Call 800-222-4930 to make reservations in the First Light Productions Room Block. (Room Block Rate available through June 8, 2019.)
Learn more and register for the event at: www.firstlightproductions.org or call: 828-734-0630
August 5-8, 2019
Individuals, couples, small groups or church leaders in the second half of life will gather for worship, workshops, professional training and fellowship. This event is co-sponsored by The Upper Room. Read More.
November 21-24, 2019
The Interfaith Peace Conference at Lake Junaluska is an ongoing response to God’s call to peacemaking and reconciliation. Affirming the community of Abrahamic faiths, the Peace Conference seeks to work in partnership with Christians, Jews, Muslims, and members of other religious traditions to advance the work of reconciliation and peace. Read More