MICAH offers ministries for body, mind and spirit including contemplative and silent prayer, meditation, spirituality, spiritual direction, and retreat center. The Family Practice and Integrative Medicine Center also offers holistic health and healing services including integrative, complimentary, alternative, and natural medicine, replacement therapy, natural healing, natural menopause, bio-identical hormones, and replacement therapy.

MICAH Photo Gallery

As we continue to grow and be attentive to the vision of MICAH as it unfolds, continually we thrill in many exciting projects and events happening.

Winter wonder at the MICAH site.

MICAH Building Takes Shape

Watch the building unfold...
Winter wonder at the MICAH site.

Waiting - Psalm 130

The MICAH landscape awaits the arrival of winter in northern Minnesota. Much like our soul longs for the presence of God in our lives. Our soul waits for the Lord...

Sunday School Class Visits MICAH Site

On a crisp fall day, a local Sunday School class stopped by for a visit at the MICAH site.

An Autumn Afternoon at the MICAH Site

August 2006

An autumn afternoon exploring the beautiful landscape at the MICAH site in rural Crookston.

Wind damages yurt in May 2006 at the MICAH Project site. Thankfully, no major structural damage.

Wind Damages Yurt

May 2006

We share our good news so we should also share our struggles. A few weeks ago the yurt was damaged by strong south winds! It looks so sad and droopy.
Springtime is in Bloom on the MICAH LANDSCAPE. Come for a retreat, meditation...a time to refresh body, mind, and spirit.

Springtime is in Bloom on the MICAH Landscape

May 2006

Capture the breathtaking views of Spring on the MICAH landscape. These current images of God's creation tell the story. You are invited to stop out, walk the land, meditate, pray, or just sit and drink in the quiet sounds of Spring.

There is nothing like spending time for prayerful reflection on a bright, crisp winter afternoon on the MICAH land. The MICAH site offers a place for contemplative and silent prayer, meditation alone, with friends, or in retreat.

A Time of Prayer in the Winter Landscape

Saturday, February 4, 2006 many took time out to spend a bright, crisp afternoon snow shoeing at the MICAH rural site. This will be a time for prayerful reflection with others in the midst of the beauty of winter.
A group of MICAH folks got together on a crisp October day to winterize the yurt. This update will make the yurt more hospitable during the winter months in Minnesota.

Winterizing the Yurt

October 2005

On a crisp Saturday in October 2005, a crew spent the day winterizing the yurt. This update will make the yurt more hospitable during the winter months in Minnesota.
Our landscape is spiritually powerful! Take time and visit the MICAH site which offers a place for silent and contemplative prayer, meditation as well as other opportunities to refresh our bodies, minds, and spirits. Come alone, with friends, or for a retreat and enjoy!

Pictures of the MICAH Land

Our landscape is spiritually powerful! The great spaces of the prairie evoke the vastness of God. To live, visit, and pray in this space is a great gift and healing to the soul.

Constructed on the MICAH site is a yurt. Yurts come from Mongolia and are strong, light, and the round shape is very pleasing.

Construction of the Yurt Building

Yurts originally come from Mongolia, a place with harsh winters and lots of wind but no lumber for rigid structures. They are strong, light, and the round shape is very pleasing. Ray, from our local radio station, claimed that yurt was Norwegian for 'deer stand'.

MICAH offers ministries for body, mind and spirit including contemplative and silent prayer, meditation, spirituality, spiritual direction, and retreat center. The Family Practice and Integrative Medicine Center also offers holistic health and healing services including integrative, complimentary, alternative, and natural medicine, replacement therapy, natural healing, natural menopause, bio-identical hormones, and replacement therapy.

Blessing of the MICAH Lamd

Summer 2004 kicked off with a celebration and blessing of the MICAH land in June. We gathered on the site for tours, picnic, and fellowship. Our attention then turned to worship and consecration of the site. It was a beautiful celebration of what God is doing through the vision of MICAH.
A labyrinth is an ancient walking prayer practice based upon the notion of pilgrimage or spiritual journey. Walking towards the center we walk towards God leaving behind all that hinder our relationship with the Divine. As we return out into the world, God walks with us, renewing our hearts, minds, and life.

Labyrinth Project

A labyrinth is an ancient walking prayer practice based upon the notion of pilgrimage or spiritual journey. As we walk into the center towards God, we leave behind that which would hinder our relationship with the Divine. As we return out into the world, God walks with us, renewing our hearts, minds, and life.

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