The Haft

10/18/2026

🍂 Fall mornings at the Haft just hit differently. 🍁

The sun rising over the mountains. The brilliant colors of the changing leaves reflecting across the still water. The crisp morning breeze. The quiet before the day begins. 🌄

Sometimes encountering God doesn’t happen in the noise.

Sometimes it happens sitting beside the water in silence… breathing deeply… watching the sunrise… and remembering:

“Be still, and know that I am God.” — Psalm 46:10

There is something sacred about stepping away from the busyness of life long enough to notice His presence in the beauty He created.

If your soul has been craving a place to slow down, pray, reflect, reconnect, or simply be still, come experience the Haft Retreat Center for yourself.

🌿 Come away.
🍂 Breathe deeply.
🙏 Be still.
💛 Be refreshed in His presence.

Whether you’re looking for a personal retreat, ministry gathering, family getaway, or a place to simply rest with God, we would love to welcome you.

Come check out the Haft and book your stay. Sometimes a little time away is exactly what your soul needs.

Helping All Families Thrive.
You are loved at the Haft. 🤎

10/13/2026

✨ TESTIMONY TUESDAY | Ministry Leaders Retreat Day ✨

Sometimes the people who spend their lives pouring into others need a place where they can be poured into, too. 💛

On September 30th, we had the privilege of welcoming Pamela Lewis, founder of Inspired to Care, Inc., to our Ministry Leaders Retreat Day at the Haft.

Pamela is a Certified Recovery Specialist and evangelist whose ministry serves women healing from addiction and trauma through faith-based recovery, support, and the hope found in Jesus Christ. 🌿

During her time at the Haft, Pamela shared a little about her experience and what it meant to have a space to step away, connect, be refreshed, and receive.

That is one of the reasons these ministry days are so important to us.

Those who are constantly serving, leading, counseling, ministering, praying, and caring for others need opportunities to rest and be reminded:

You don’t always have to be the one pouring out. Sometimes God wants you to receive. 🤍

Thank you, Pamela, for joining us and for the work you are doing to help women find freedom, healing, and restoration.

This is what we hope the Haft continues to be—a place where those who help others heal can come and experience restoration themselves.

🌿 Helping All Families Thrive.
💛 You are loved at the Haft.

10/13/2026

🌱 The THRIVE Family Workshop Series is BACK!

After our first Discipline Without the Drama workshop, there was still so much more we wanted to cover—so we’re continuing the conversation with PART TWO! 🙌

📅 Saturday, November 7
⏰ 10:00 AM EST
💻 LIVE Online
💛 FREE to Attend!

Discipline Without the Drama: Part Two

Parenting can be challenging—but discipline doesn’t have to mean constant yelling, power struggles, frustration, or feeling like nothing is working.

Join Drew & Cindy Metcalf for another practical and encouraging conversation designed to help families strengthen relationships, establish healthy boundaries, and approach discipline with greater confidence and connection.

✨ Practical tools you can use at home
✨ Biblical and relational principles
✨ Live Q&A
✨ Prayer and encouragement
✨ Recording available for those who register
✨ Language translation available upon request

Didn’t attend Part One? You’re still welcome to join us and we will send the recording from Part One!

The THRIVE Family Workshop Series exists to help families break unhealthy cycles, strengthen relationships, and THRIVE—together.

🌿 Tools • Healing • Relationships • Insight • Vision • Empowerment

Hosted by Haft Retreat Center
❤️ Helping All Families Thrive

👉 Register today—it’s completely FREE!
https://forms.gle/DzLHwwVgseU18YFX6

10/12/2026

🎉 WE HIT 1.6K FOLLOWERS! 🎉

We are so grateful for every single person who has followed, shared, visited, volunteered, prayed for, donated to, or simply told someone else about Haft Retreat Center. 💛

But we need your help reaching even more people!

🌿 Would you take a minute to invite your friends to LIKE & FOLLOW our page?

The Haft can sometimes feel like a hidden gem tucked away in the beautiful mountains of Pennsylvania—but we don’t want to stay hidden! There are individuals, couples, families, ministry leaders, and women walking through difficult seasons who may have no idea that a place like this exists.

At the Haft, our mission is Helping All Families Thrive, and that happens in so many different ways:

🌿 Retreats for individuals, couples, families & ministries
💛 Our Women’s Healing Program at Wellspring Cottage
🐴 Equine-assisted experiences & therapeutic support
🙏 Prayer ministry, biblical teaching & worship
💍 Marriage retreats & relationship enrichment
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 THRIVE Family Workshops
🌲 Peaceful spaces for personal retreats, rest & time with God
🥾 Hiking trails, prayer trails, lake activities & opportunities to reconnect with creation
🤝 Community events, volunteer opportunities & ministry partnerships

And so much more!

Visibility matters. Every follow, share, comment, and invitation helps someone new discover resources they may desperately need.

You never know—the friend you invite today may be the person who needs the Haft tomorrow. 💛

✨ Help us go from 1.6K to 2K!
👉 Invite your friends to follow our page
👉 Share this post
👉 Tag someone who should know about the Haft

Thank you for helping us make sure this beautiful place for healing, connection, restoration, and hope doesn’t remain a hidden gem.

🌿 You are loved at the Haft.

10/10/2026

🌿 Today is World Mental Health Day.

Sometimes healing begins with having a safe place to exhale.

A place to step away from the noise.
A place to rest when life has become heavy.
A place to talk, pray, walk, cry, laugh, breathe, and simply be.
A place to remember that you were never meant to carry everything alone.

At the Haft Retreat Center, we believe caring for people means caring for the whole person—mind, body, and spirit.

Mental and emotional struggles can touch any family. Anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, addiction, burnout, relationship struggles, and overwhelming seasons of life don’t mean someone has failed or lacks faith. Sometimes we need support. Sometimes we need community. Sometimes we need professional help. And sometimes we simply need space to become still enough to recognize what our hearts have been carrying.

Jesus Himself invited the weary to come to Him and find rest. 🤍

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” — Matthew 11:28

On World Mental Health Day, we want you to know:

🌿 It is okay to ask for help.
🌿 Rest is important.
🌿 Your mental health matters.
🌿 Your story matters.
🌿 Healing is possible.
🌿 And you do not have to walk through difficult seasons alone.

Our prayer is that the Haft will continue to be a place where individuals and families can step away from the demands of life, encounter God, receive support, and leave a little more refreshed than when they arrived.

Because Helping All Families Thrive includes caring for their mental, emotional, relational, physical, and spiritual well-being. 💚

You are loved at the Haft.

10/08/2026

🎄✨ VOLUNTEER WEEKEND AT THE HAFT! ✨🎄
📅 November 13–15

Help us transform the Haft into a Winter Wonderland! ❄️🌲

We’re inviting volunteers to spend the weekend with us as we prepare the grounds for the Christmas season—and volunteers can stay at the Haft FREE for the weekend! 🏡❤️

🙌 TEENS NEED VOLUNTEER HOURS?
This is a great opportunity for teenagers looking to complete school, club, church, NHS, or other community-service hours while doing something fun and meaningful! Bring a friend, youth group, or come serve as a family.

We’ll be working together to:

✨ Hang Christmas lights
🎄 Decorate Christmas trees
🧹 Clean and prepare the grounds
❄️ Set up Winter Wonderland displays
❤️ Prepare the Haft to welcome our community

Our volunteers help make it possible for us to open the Haft to the community for special FREE Christmas experiences, including nativity displays, walk-throughs, and opportunities for families to enjoy the beauty and meaning of the season together.

Whether you’re an individual, family, teenager, church group, youth group, ministry team, or group of friends, we’d love to have you!

Come serve, fellowship, enjoy the beautiful grounds, and help us create a place where families can experience joy, connection, and the hope of Christmas. 🎄✨

📅 November 13–15
🏡 FREE lodging for volunteers
🎓 Great opportunity for teens needing volunteer/service hours!

📩 Interested? Send us a message to learn more or reserve your spot! Overnight space is limited.

❤️ Many hands. One beautiful mission.
Helping All Families Thrive.

10/06/2026

A Rainbow 🌈 is a reminder of God’s promise, so how fitting is the name of this wonderful thrift store who was willing to donate clothing to the women in our women’s healing program who may be in need. May God bless this shop for its heart and generosity. 🙏💕 Rainbow's End Thrift Shop A big thank you to you guys!!

Do you have things you’d like to donate to be a blessing to those in need? Reach out to us today to see how you can connect and give to support our healing ministry that seeks to help all families thrive.

10/06/2026

✨ TESTIMONY TUESDAY ✨

Sometimes what we need most is simply a place to get away from the noise and be with God. 🌿

Here is a beautiful testimony shared by a recent guest at the Haft Retreat Center:

💬 “My favorite part of my stay was that I was able to get away and spend one-on-one time with God. No phone and smart watch constantly buzzing and demanding my time and attention. No scheduled activities that made me leave a spot until I felt God was finished showing me what He had for me.

The caring and understanding of the staff, and their willingness to allow God to do what He wills. All of it was what I desperately needed.”

This is why we do what we do. ❤️

The Haft is more than a place to stay—it’s a place to slow down, disconnect from the distractions, hear from God, and receive what your soul needs.

🌲 Come away. Be still. Stay awhile.

You are loved at the Haft.

10/02/2026

10/01/2026

🚨 PARENTS — THIS SATURDAY! 🚨

Are you tired of discipline turning into arguing, yelling, power struggles, or everyone walking away frustrated?

There IS another way. 💛

Join us for the first workshop in the THRIVE Family Workshop Series at the Haft Retreat Center:

🌿 DISCIPLINE WITHOUT THE DRAMA
📅 This Saturday, October 3
⏰ 10:00 AM
💻 Join us LIVE online from the comfort of your home!

This practical, encouraging workshop is designed to help parents better understand their children’s behavior while learning healthier, more effective ways to set boundaries, respond to challenging behaviors, and bring more peace into the home.

Drew & Cindy Metcalf will share practical tools and biblical wisdom from their years of working with children and families, followed by LIVE Q&A and prayer.

✨ Bring your questions.
✨ Bring the parenting struggles you don’t know how to handle.
✨ Come ready to learn practical tools you can start using right away.

🎁 BONUS: The first 30 people who register AND attend live will receive a FREE gift!

Can’t attend live? Register anyway! A recording of the workshop will be emailed to registered participants afterward.

🌎 English & Spanish available, with additional language translation available upon request.

👇 DON’T WAIT — REGISTER FOR FREE TODAY!

🔗 CLICK THE LINK BELOW TO SAVE YOUR SPOT:
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Know another parent who could use some encouragement and practical support? Tag them below or share this post with them! 💛

THRIVE Family Workshop Series
Tools • Healing • Relationships • Insight • Vision • Empowerment

🌿 Helping All Families Thrive