Welcome to Pilgrim House, a ‘Creative Monastery’, home for creative spiritual formation, mission and artist residencies in Crete.

A stay with us at the crossroads of Europe and Africa, is an opportunity to come away from the demands of creative industries and receive rest in Gods renewing presence, with space to experiment and innovate for the Kingdom.

Our vision is to support local and international artists to grow deeper in their identity & intimacy with God, and for their prophetic imagination to come alive in Christ. To boldly create and communicate God’s revelation for our times, a time when people's lives are influenced by music and image more than ever.

We desire all to grow in trust and wonder of God through nature and to receive a deeper knowing of His love, releasing a posture to live, create and perform from rest and security as His beloved child.

“Embrace an embodied experience reminding us of our first love. Delight in sabbath rest and surrender, being still enough to hear God's whisper.”

Spirit-led daily rhythms of creative-spiritual practice help us in abiding alone, or in fellowship, while Island adventures increase our awe of God’s glory in creation, with nourishment under the sun, submerged in the sea or in revived creativity.

Our desire is to commission pilgrims back into their communities with a greater sense of courage and calling, to communicate the beautiful Way, Truth and Life of Jesus, the the potential to impact a generation.

Creative Contemplation

Our approach of contemplation slows the pace to perceive God’s presence. Using creativity in the process invites an opportunity for the intrinsic power of the arts to offer new ways of seeing and understanding spiritual truths. This is nothing new, as the Bible employs the arts; from song and poetry in Psalms, to metaphor in Jesus’ teachings, to performance art in Ezekiel. The attentive pace also creates head-space to hear God’s voice and to become a more refined channel of His peace, carrying a balm and reconciliation into a hurt and divided world.