This is a low volume moderated list whose purpose is strictly announcements of goings on at Ozark Avalon, a Pagan land sanctuary in central Missouri. You'll see things like event flyers, last minute changes in workshops, lost and found, etc.

Ozark Avalon is a church of Wicca. Our mission is to provide access to nature, a safe place for outdoor worship in an earth-centered spiritual context. The spirits of nature are respected and land management is done from a spiritual and magical perspective.

Located on the bluffs overlooking the Missouri River, Ozark Avalon stewards 150 acres of groves, woods, and meadows. A 3 acre lake for swimming, established sweat lodge, hiking trails, and many natural shrines are found here. We are open year round, offering level camping, hot showers, and limited indoor facilities.

Our focus is Shamanic Wicca. We work with the spirits of nature through a variety of traditional earth centered religious and magical systems. We draw most heavily from northern hemisphere cultures located in similar terrains, since plant and animal life, seasons and terrain tend to be similar. Wicca, Native American, Faerie, and Norse practices woven with classical energy work underpin our ritual construction. We follow the Wiccan rede, "an’ it harm none, do what thou will," and celebrate the sacred holidays of the Wiccan solar year. Earth-tending and healing are an integral part of our worship of the Goddess and God. We experience nature as a manifestation of deity, and nature spirits as real and present in our lives.

Our focus is for earth healing and tending with a deep respect for ourselves as powerful forces in the natural world. Our tools tend to be nature objects, with the directly gathered and handcrafted items being most valued. Deep ecology, bio-regionalism, Jungian psychology, the Gaia Hypothosis and energy physics are sources of the philosophical development of our concepts of deity and magic.