programming “on the road.” The biggest surprise, the Carpenters say, is that this long-awaited and some- times dreaded project is actually happening.
“For over 20 years, study after study has been conducted to evalu- ate what effort is needed to remedy the environmental hazards left from mining days,” Stephanie said. “For over 50 years the ministry of Holden Village has welcomed people in and sent people out from this valley. And now this little nonprofit organiza- tion, sandwiched between the large government agencies and the giant mining corporation, is looking to keep its ministry alive and thriving in the face of this messy, uncharted time of disruption.”
Mining village became ministry Holden Village traces its origins to a gift made in 1961 by the Howe Sound Co. to the Lutheran Bible Institute (LBI) of Seattle. The com- pany built the village in 1937 to accommodate hundreds of miners. Due to its remote location, the vil- lage was self-contained with dormi- tories and a dining hall for bachelor miners as well as single-family homes, a recreation center, school and hospital. Children of the miners still return to the village, remember- ing with happy nostalgia an idyllic life during the ’40s and ’50s. When copper prices plummeted in 1957, the mine and village were closed. Howe Sound tried to sell the village as a potential resort, but had no takers. In 1961, in response to letters written by LBI student Wes Prieb, the company offered to give the village to the school. LBI President E.V. Stime recog- nized immediately that the village was too large for the small school to operate. So LBI established an independent nonprofit corporation, which continues to operate Holden
Village with a 20-member board. Youthful volunteers initially
cleaned up the village after its four-year abandonment. By 1962, with start-up funding from several national Lutheran youth groups, Holden Village was ready for guests. The first long-term directors,
Lutheran pastor Carroll Hinderlie and his wife Mary, served from 1963 to 1977, convinced that Holden needed to reach out to more than
youth and to more than Lutherans. They set an inviolable rule that remains today: everyone is expected to participate in daily worship. The village welcomes up to 7,000 visitors annually, including more than 1,000 volunteer staff members. Just getting to Holden is some- thing of a pilgrimage. Unless you hike in over the mountains, the vil- lage is reachable only by boat. It’s a spectacular two- to three-hour ride
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