December 2023

Join us for a fun Friends of Seabeck Holiday Weekend. Come and relax before the hectic last couple of weeks before Christmas. Take home a Christmas craft that you made yourself and have fun learning how to put together a charcuterie board and pair wines for your holiday parties. Display your works of art at the reception on Saturday night and enjoy snacking on the delicious charcuterie boards that you helped prepare. Here is a tentative schedule of events.

$250.00 per person

Friday, December 8

4:00 PM  Registration in the Inn Lobby

6:30 PM  Dinner

8:00 PM  Reception in Pines

Saturday, December 9

8:00 AM Breakfast

9:00 AM Seabeck Update and Input Session

10:30 AM Christmas Crafting

12:00 PM Lunch

1:30 PM Charcuterie Boards & Wine Pairing

3:00 PM Christmas Crafting

6:00 PM Dinner

7:30 PM After Dinner Party in Pines

8:30 PM Movie Night featuring Candy Cane Lane

Sunday, December 10

10:00 AM Holiday Brunch

12:00 PM Check-out 

Call the office at 360-830-5010 to reserve your spot or email to seabeck@seabeck.org. You can pay when you arrive.

The Seabeck Nativity Scene is up and will be lit tonight. Here is a little history we received from Dave Schneewind and the crew who set it up this year.

This Christmas greeting comes from the Nativity Scene Set Up/Take Down crew. I believe a little history regarding the scene needs to be passed on to current community members and also to new members.

The first recorded time the scene was put up was in 1947. I cannot find information as to who made the original scene but I can only imagine it was Andy Olsen, the Grounds Manager from 1945-1967 when he retired.

Since 1999, when I volunteered to be in charge of getting help for this fun project, there have been over three dozen different happy elves that made this possible. I never had a person come up with a legitimate reason not to be available to join in a good time. By the way, this is the 50th year Joe Emel has been involved with putting up the lights on the 80' plus cedar tree.

Happy Holidays from the staff at

Seabeck Conference Center.

Photo by Barbara Allen, Seabeck 11/28/2023

Do you want to help us lay the foundation for the next decade of Seabeck Conference Center? There are many ways, not all of them involving huge disbursements of cash. Here are some creative ideas you

might not have thought about:

Cash Donation Today

Tax-deductible gifts via check, credit card, in person, or online. Please consider

upping your regular gift by another 10 percent.

Automatic Monthly Payments

Gifts can be deducted periodically from your bank account, making larger donations easier by spreading them over time.

Low-Cost Appreciated Stock

Avoid paying the capital gains by giving full-market value to Seabeck Conference Center.

In-Kind Donation

We are always in need of furniture, lighting, rugs, and much more - the market value is tax-deductible.

Multi-Year Pledges

A great way to ensure support will be there when we need it year after year.

Designated Gifts

Donate to a targeted project or capital campaign.

Commemorative Gifts

Donate a bench or rocking chair in honor of someone or something important to you.

A Bequest in Your Will

Your gift can be a specific sum or a percentage of an estate after other bequests. Just add an addendum to your existing will.

Life Insurance and Savings Accounts

Same as retirement plans, except those payments made to Seabeck Conference Center are exempt only from estate taxes.

IRA's and Retirement Plans

Your estate receives a charitable deduction for the full gift amount on estate and income taxes, while we receive full donation value. Non-charitable heirs receive only a part of the value (since inherited assets are subject to estate and income taxes).

Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD)

A QCD is a direct transfer of funds from your IRA custodian, payable to a qualified charity. QCDs can be counted toward satisfying your required minimum distributions (RMDs) for the year, as long as certain rules are met. You must be 70-1/2 or older to be eligible to make a QCD.

All gifts are welcome. Seabeck Conference Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and your contribution may be tax-deductible. If you have any questions, please contact our Executive Director, Chuck Kraining at

(360) 830-5010 or email him at chuck@seabeck.org.