Naramata Centre

Naramata Centre Nestled in the stunning Okanagan, Naramata Centre is a welcoming place to rest, reconnect, and gather.

Stay in hotel-style rooms, cottages, villas, or camp/RV on-site. Join us for summer sessions, group retreats, and programs that nurture community.

08/27/2026

The willows here came up on this shore long before any of us did. They bend all winter and they are still standing in spring, and they give shade to whoever happens to be sitting under them.

Some people are like that. Thinking today of everyone who grew up with Dolly Parton and her songs.

Thank you to First Community, the Salmon Arm Jazz Club, Voice of the Shuswap, and everyone who performed, volunteered, g...
08/25/2026

Thank you to First Community, the Salmon Arm Jazz Club, Voice of the Shuswap, and everyone who performed, volunteered, gave, and came out for Community in Concert in Salmon Arm on Friday.

The evening was held for households evacuated by the Bradley Creek and Bald Range wildfires, and a third of what it raised is coming to Naramata Centre.

This August, Naramata Centre cancelled two weeks of its own summer season and turned the rooms into accommodation for households under evacuation order. Nobody paid on arrival. Afterwards each household pays what it is able to pay, and no one is turned away.

First Community will hear from us exactly what the evening paid for: which nights, which rooms, and how many households.

Since 1947 this place has done one thing. Make a place, set the table, take people in. On Friday, Salmon Arm helped carry it.

Any congregation or community that would like to hold something similar is welcome to write to us at [email protected], and we will send everything needed, already written.

The Naramata Centre team

08/20/2026

The staff at Naramata Centre mostly talk to each other in one group text. This film is based on that thread, starting the night before the first flame in Summerland, August 6th.

Our team of 19 made the decisions in that thread and then carried them out. Weeks 5 and 6 were cancelled. Fifty-six people were given a bed in rooms our guests released, along with fifteen dogs, four cats, and a snake named Pretzel. We are grateful to every one of them.

It runs just under four minutes. We meant to make a long story short....but, sometimes, a long story needs to be long.

If you watch to the end, please send it to somebody who remembers this place. Almost everyone who comes here was told about it by somebody.

And if you are able, canadahelps.org/en/dn/148515

You may also donate using e-transfer [email protected]

Please use this for to let us know it is on its way. https://forms.gle/CqNL4yn3AxUJeWPGA

Naramata Centre Society is a registered charity. BN119051142RR0001

Thank you to Inlet United who came to the Centre today with grocery gift cards and food for the guests who are still wit...
08/19/2026

Thank you to Inlet United who came to the Centre today with grocery gift cards and food for the guests who are still with us under evacuation orders.

Grocery gift cards do a particular job here. Households cook their own meals in their own kitchens, and a card lets us buy fresh food on the morning it is needed rather than days ahead.

Since 1947 this place has done one thing. Make a place, set the table, take people in. This week you helped us set the table.

A reflection - Summer of 2026Allison Rennie - Program Team LeadLike Light Througha Stained-Glass WindowThis year the Spi...
08/18/2026

A reflection - Summer of 2026

Allison Rennie - Program Team Lead

Like Light Througha Stained-Glass Window

This year the Spirit called Naramata Centre into alignment with its deep purpose. This whole year we have been building a foundation to respond, to be and become a tender and vibrant version of ourselves. We just didn’t know it would include a wild fire.

Yes, we have cancelled many beautiful opportunities, and it is disappointing.

And yes, we wonder about the impact of those decisions on our operations this year.

And yes, this is what it looks like when we respond to the call to serve Love in the world.

Like light through a stained-glass window, disappointment only shines through a few slivers of glass.

There is sadness, and there is joy.

There is risk, and we respond in faithful action.

There is uncertainty, and there is steadfast presence. Last fall as we prepared for this summer, we named that we live in a wounded and wounding world where it’s easy to feel over whelmed, confused, or just plain stuck. We also said that we inhabit this stunningly beautiful world that inspires our gratitude, wonder and love. And then we invited people to come and develop practices of joy, resilience, courage, and compassion.

This is the call we are living now.

Fires and no fires.

Registered guests and heart broken evacuees.

Children and elders.

The certain and the seekers.

And perhaps it is for such a time as this that Naramata Centre is here. To offer deep hospitality. To honour the experience of children. To be an expression of expansive Christian story and community. To invite rest, healing, sanctuary. I am convinced that as a Centre we are aligning with the Spirit’s call to joy, resilience, courage,and compassion. Thank you for your prayers and offers of support.

Thank you for being part of this community.

Allison Rennie

Monday, August 17The news is arriving in pieces this week, and plans are changing by the hour, and a lot of people are s...
08/17/2026

Monday, August 17

The news is arriving in pieces this week, and plans are changing by the hour, and a lot of people are still waiting to hear what happens next. If that is you, the morning here is yours.
Yoga at the Chapel, 9am, unhurried.

Child and Youth Program, 9 to 11am, ages 2 to 17.

Then in the afternoon, the village hosts its Summer Social on Main Street from 4 to 7.

Wander down. Stand around with your neighbours for a while. There is something steadying about a street full of people on a day when everything else is uncertain.

Come as you are. Stay as long as you like.

There is a food pantry in Columbia Hall now.We have created it for the evacuated households staying with us, and for any...
08/14/2026

There is a food pantry in Columbia Hall now.

We have created it for the evacuated households staying with us, and for any evacuated household in the area who needs it. If you are a local evacuee, please come and get what you need. The doors are open until 8 pm, and there is no sign-up and no charge.

The dry goods shelves have a good start. It is the fresh things and the basics we need help with now.

If Naramata can help stock it, here is what we need most: eggs, milk, fresh fruit, vegetables, basic food items, laundry detergent, and toiletries like shampoo, soap, toothbrushes, and toothpaste. The households staying with us have kitchens and cook real meals, which is why the fresh things and the basics matter most. The one thing we cannot accept is clothing, and thank you for thinking of it.

Drop-off is at Columbia Hall, Naramata Centre, 460 Ellis Avenue, Naramata, between 10 am and 6 pm.

If you would like to donate money to help support Naramata Centre and its wildfire initiative, you can do that here: canadahelps.org/en/dn/148515

They say love comes in many forms. Today, it arrived as hot pizzas! A huge thank you to Real Things Pizza for this incr...
08/13/2026

They say love comes in many forms. Today, it arrived as hot pizzas! A huge thank you to Real Things Pizza for this incredibly generous donation for the evacuees staying at Naramata Centre. Nothing says “we care” quite like a mountain of pizza!

Real Things Pizza 250-496-4008

This is not the news we wanted to share.Programming for Summer Sessions Weeks 5 and 6 is cancelled. All of it: the choir...
08/12/2026

This is not the news we wanted to share.
Programming for Summer Sessions Weeks 5 and 6 is cancelled. All of it: the choirs, the workshops, the morning programs, and the children's and youth programs. The air has held at high risk in weeks that are built on singing, Highway 97 remains closed between Peachland and Penticton, and our neighbours needed us more than we needed a season.

If you were registered for either week, please check your email. Every household has a letter from us explaining exactly where things stand, and one short form that settles everything: your money is held for you and can be refunded, used toward next summer, or donated in any amount you choose. Nothing expires, no one is pressured, and the unit you had this year can be held for you for 2027, no waiting online at opening hour. Please answer by September 1.

Everything is also at naramatacentresociety.org/week56portal, and it will stay current there.

And here is what those two quiet weeks are becoming. Forty five people evacuated from Summerland are staying at the Centre tonight, and more are asking. As our guests release their rooms, those rooms become beds for families who left home with what they could carry, some of whom already know there is no house to go back to. If you know a household under evacuation order that needs somewhere to sleep: naramatacentresociety.org/wildfire-evacuee-resources

Nearly eighty years of summers have been made on this shore, and one hard August does not unmake them. We will sing again, next year, together.

The Naramata Centre team

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460 Ellis Avenue Naramata
Penticton, BC
V0H1N0

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Monday 8am - 7pm
Tuesday 8am - 7pm
Wednesday 8am - 7pm
Thursday 8am - 7pm
Friday 8am - 7pm
Saturday 8am - 7pm
Sunday 8am - 7pm

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+12504965751

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