Please note that what follows is a long-term vision for our Canaan Advance Center.

The space we inhabit shapes the state of our mind-body-spirit. If you want a creative conference, meeting or ministry, you need creative space. The right space sets the stage for new insights and fresh thinking.

CANAAN offers you space that is a total immersion in art and beauty, both natural and human. The spiritual viewing and appreciation of beautiful, historic, and extraordinary objects of art (the collection is especially strong in 18th century European and 19th century rare Americana) is a poorly understood and richly neglected gift of God. To receive this gift, however, we must open up what a consumer culture closes: "eyes that do not see" (in Le Corbusier's phrasing). At CANAAN you are invited to open the eyes every time you grasp a handle to open a door, every time you sink into a couch, every time you bury yourself in the bed sheets, every time you sink down, exhausted, on the lush mountain floor.

Artistic treasures at CANAAN are held in trust for all, and while art is not seen as a secular religion (as in some museums), art is here a deeply spiritual experience that is receptive to and expressive of the spirit and flesh of all of beings and the glory of a Creator God.

Open seven days a week, year round, all of our facilities are smoke free and accessible to wheelchairs. The kitchen specializes in veggie ventures. If you are needing a hideaway in the hills or monastic repose, your mind and body cannot find a more tranquil, serene, healing environment. If you are needing the creative charges that come with saloning, conferencing and think-tanking, you cannot find a more abounding atmosphere in conviviality, laughter and good times.