Flintstone, Maryland · Former Loyola Retreat Center
A future for
Rising Phoenix.
Can we preserve this retreat as a place that honors God and carries forward Margee Iddings’ legacy of welcome and spiritual renewal?
Could you help lead this effort? Friends, family, original supporters, and people who could help: let’s talk.
Sources & connections
Keep the useful things together.
Primary property details, Margee’s words, and the people and projects connected to this conversation.
Official auction listing
Property photographs, description, auction terms, and auctioneer contact. Check here for sale updates.
Her storyA conversation with Margee
The 2009 Ten Years of Connections interview. The source may occasionally be unavailable.
RemembranceCelebrating Margee’s life
National Capital Presbytery’s 2019 Facebook tribute and community remembrances. Facebook may require sign-in.
BiographyMargee’s ministry
Cleveland Park Congregational Church’s 2016 introduction and biographical note.
Her words“Thank You”
A sermon by Margee, published by Cleveland Park Congregational Church in June 2016.
Her influenceMary Laymon on Margee
A published interview about Tikkun Farm, community, and what Mary learned from Margee.
Related workTikkun Farm
Mary Laymon’s community in Cincinnati, bringing together farm work, hospitality, and spiritual practice.
How this beganHarmony Gardens
The family farm-stay vision whose property search led Adam to Rising Phoenix. It is a separate project seeking another location.
Honoring God first. Continuing Margee’s legacy.
Adam began this independent effort to help preserve the retreat’s spiritual purpose, with no aim of personal gain. He would not be its owner or ongoing operator. The hope is for a trust or another lasting arrangement to protect that purpose for future generations. Could you take the reins, or help share the responsibility?
The proposal has no established buyer, committed funding, or trust. This site does not speak for Margee’s family, Loyola University Maryland, or the seller.