Christwood Retirement Community

Celebrating their 25th Anniversary

EVEN THOUGH THE COVID19 pandemic limited or caused postponement of some 25th Anniversary celebratory events, the Christwood management and staff were nevertheless able to carry out several of them, including a staff crawfish boil, an anniversary service and reception at Christ Episcopal Church in Covington, and the planting of the 25th Anniversary oak tree on the shore of Loch Lohman. The anniversary celebration continued with a Healing Arts Exhibit in the Atrium Gallery.

On a beautiful Sunday morning this past September, Christwood hosted a celebratory liturgy at Christ Episcopal Church. It was held in the church courtyard and attended by members of the Church who enjoyed an array of sweet, savory, and bubbly refreshments as well as musical entertainment by Matt Lemmler and friends.

Father Steve Holzhalb, D.Min. delivered a heartfelt liturgy in which he shared “God’s Spirit, I believe, continues to manifest at Christwood. Not perfectly to be sure. Not completely, but in a loving, respectful, caring way, through good times and bad. The spirit is manifest in residents, in their families, in the staff and in their families as a vibrant community…and the spirit of this congregation remains, week by week, celebrating the Eucharist and ministering to those in the resident community in need. Praise God from whom all blessings come.”

After a two-year pause due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Christwood’s Atrium Gallery reopened on Saturday, June 4, 2022, in celebration of Christwood’s 25th Anniversary with an unparalleled Healing Arts Group Exhibit of 53 multimedia works by 23 regional artists.

The Christwood Atrium Gallery, which opened in 2012, recently adopted what Loomis calls a Healing Arts Initiative, with the following mission statement: Through the vitality of the creative arts and human connections, the Healing Arts Initiative will enrich the community.

“The thinking behind this is that the arts in all forms – visual, musical, literature, poetry, even the culinary arts – give our lives meaning, and are a balm to the body and the soul of our culture. Without the arts we do not flourish as a community,” Loomis explained.

Participating Artists in the Healing Arts Exhibition: Jan Arrigo, Errol Barron, Harriet Blum, Andrew Boyd, Gerald Cannon, Emery Clark, Sandra Russell Clark, Margaret Crosby, Adrian Deckbar, Alan Flattman, Carol Hallock, Peggy Hesse, Marcia Holmes, Mary Helen Mason, Catherine Mayer, Mary Monk, Jan Munson, Josephine Sacabo, Billy Solitario, Sarah Sparkman-Boyd, Kathleen Trapolin, Peg Usner and Sue Zaunbrecher.