ANNUAL GIVING 2024

Dear Friends of the Sophia Foundation,

It is with enormous gratitude that I write this Advent Letter to you on behalf of the Sophia Foundation at this time in human history, which is of unfathomable significance.

The Sophia Foundation was founded Dec. 31, 1994/Jan. 1, 1995, when the Sun was remembering its position at 16° Sagittarius at the birth of the Nathan Jesus, on Dec. 6/7, 2 BC. 

Since 1995 the Sophia Foundation has sought to awaken a vision of a new earth and a new humanity, to deepen our relationship to Christ and Sophia, and to inspire people to live as “guardians of the life and communal soul of religion, science and the arts.”

At our June, 2009, board meeting we imagined our foundation as a Celtic cross. In our first years we had established a strong vertical axis, a personal connection to Christ and Sophia. We were then just beginning to focus on the extension of a horizontal axis, a reaching out to broaden the message and work of Sophia into our world. The circle uniting the two axes was seen as the community of people who take up this work. 

At our recent board meeting, on October 13-20, 2024, Joel Park, the Sophia Foundation board chair, described an imagination for the work of the Sophia Foundation for the coming three and half years. 

On Oct. 18/19, as we were visiting the Valentin Tomberg Archive in Sitke, Hungary, and then having a most precious meeting with Judith von Halle in Budapest, the Sun was remembering its position at 1° Libra at the Baptism in the Jordan on Sept. 23, AD 29. In the time leading up to the Baptism, Jesus of Nazareth was filled with seemingly unanswerable questions and concerns about humanity and its connection to the spiritual world. He poured out these concerns in a confessional way to his Mother, emptying himself as a preparation to receive the Spirit of Christ at the Baptism. 

Joel characterized this board meeting on the one hand as a rebirth or new beginning for the Sophia Foundation, yet also a kind of culmination or completion from another angle. We welcomed two new board members, Krisztina Cseri, a devoted student of Star Wisdom, from Budapest, Hungary. Krisztina has contributed articles to our Star Light newsletter and Star Wisdom Journal. We also welcomed Sabrina Wendtner, a philologist specializing in Slavic languages, born in Austria and living in Austria and Bulgaria. 

In our meeting with Judith von Halle, she was extremely touched and grateful for the outpouring of interest and support for Das Wort by the Sophia Foundation, which was very heart-warming. 

The Sophia Foundation will turn 30 years old at the end of this year, 2024. Joel’s intention is, during the next 3.5 years, to consciously acknowledge the unfolding of Christ’s ministry, as the Sophia Foundation experiences its “Christ years” of 30-33—focusing on these years both as a culmination and a new beginning for the Sophia Foundation’s work in the world. This could take the form of concentrating on the days that the Sun remembers the healing miracles from the life of Christ. 

The nexus during the memory of each of the miracles can be brought into relationship with the 7 miracles of the Etheric Christ through the work of different individuals: e.g., the 1st healing miracle was enacted through Rudolf Steiner and Beinsa Douno in particular; the 2nd through Valentin Tomberg and Willi Sucher, etc.  More will be forthcoming soon about this unfolding vision.

The continuation of this work requires a robust circle. 

The dedication, sacrifice and incredible generosity of our supporters have sustained us to this point. We are able to continue our work through community support of donations and program participation.  

We would like to express profound gratitude to you, our beloved community, for your continued, generous support of our work.  It is through Sophianic community that we can further the impulse that seeks to unite heaven and earth, even as Christ and Sophia, the Lamb and his Bride, are united.

We ask for your generosity of heart in support for the ideals we seek together. To donate, you can send a check to the Sophia Foundation, 4500 19th Street, #369 Boulder, CO 80304, or simply click on the button below to make a secure donation using a credit card to support the mission of the Sophia Foundation.

With gratitude and love in Christ and Sophia,

Karen Rivers 
Co-Founder 
on behalf of the Sophia Foundation Board of Trustees

“The consistent psychical-spiritual work of an individual, or of a few individuals, can have an enormous influence on the physical and spiritual conditions of the world! When someone asks: What can I as one person do to influence world events? – the answer is: everything! If people could only see with physical eyes the effect on the macrocosmic context that the decision and its implementation to consistently practice only one meditation by a single person, then probably no one would hesitate to undertake such an exercise themselves. For the possibilities are enormous! Allow me to give you this as the greatest consolation, as the strongest ray of hope in the present situation. The individual person holds the world’s fate in his hands. This is the gift of the Christ, who sees the individual I as a deity, who treats it as a deity. (…) Spiritual life must become a reality in our hearts and therefore in our higher consciousness. We must develop a feeling in our souls for the true, the beautiful and the good that resides in this spiritual life.”   — Judith van Halle

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We express our heartfelt gratitude for your generous support. Please offer a gift to our Giving Campaign so that we may continue to expand our work in the world.

In Christ and Sophia,

The Sophia Foundation Board of Trustees

Robert Powell (Founder)

Karen Rivers (Founder)

Joel Park (Board Chair)

Michael Choy (Board Treasurer)

Cecille Greenleaf (Board Secretary)

Phillip Malone (Trustee)

Krisztina Cseri (Trustee)

Sabrina Wendtner (Trustee)

Kim Marie (Administrator)

* Please note our current contact information is
Phone: 303-242-5388
Address:  4500 19th Street, #369, Boulder, CO  80304
Email:  [email protected]

In addition to cash donations, the Sophia Foundation also accepts the following, which allows tax advantages to the donor:

• Appreciated assets, such as stocks and bonds
• Required Minimum Distributions from Retirement Accounts
• Tangible assets, such as cars, motorcycles, boats, and real estate.

Please contact our office if you’d like to contribute in any of these ways.

DONATE EASILY ONLINE WITH PayPal:

When you click the button above, you’ll be taken to a screen that allows for you to enter an amount, and also select to “Make this a Monthly Donation” if you wish. This makes it easy to offer an ongoing contribution to the work of the Sophia Foundation, and you can choose any amount to fit your budget.  The monthly cost of a dinner out goes a long way toward supporting our mission.

You are also welcome to mail your donation to:
Sophia Foundation
4500 19th Street #369
Boulder, CO 80304