The Closet

He's not silent. Come build the place where you finally hear Him.

The Closet is a global classroom and sisterhood built on Matthew 6:6. You go in, you get still, you make room to hear. You leave with a secret place that actually exists, and a practice you keep. Not a course you finish. A place you belong.

Pay what you can. Come in today.

Enter the Closet
Caren Williford

3,500+

Women Taught

2,000+

Closets Built

7

Continents

2017

Teaching Since

Caren Williford

The Closet was born in the dark.

When my husband went blind, I learned the power of private pursuit. Sixty-four surgeries. Years in the dark beside him. And in that dark, with no plan left to trust, I began to hear God, and my relationship with Him became real for the first time.

On his sixty-fourth surgery, God restored the sight in his right eye. That was the miracle everyone could see. The deeper one happened in the dark, where I learned to hear His voice.

That secret place is the whole foundation of the Closet. Matthew 6:6: shut the door, and the Father who sees in secret rewards you. Since 2017 I have taught women to build that place for themselves. It started as a four-week program. It became a global classroom and sisterhood, women cut from a different cloth on every continent, because they kept asking for more.

The Journey

The work that would not die

2017

It began with thirteen. Twelve in my city, and one a world away in Pakistan. By the end of that first year, more than five hundred had come.

The dark

Then betrayal and a health crisis at home took me out. I stepped away, devastated, certain it was over.

2020

It wasn't. In the middle of a pandemic, I came back. A hundred and fifty more women walked in.

2023

I came back again. Nine hundred more.

Today

Over two thousand women, on every continent. The secret place outlasted everything that tried to end it.

What's inside the door

A monthly rhythm that builds and keeps your own secret place.

The first Thursday · Closet Theology
A live class with me on the why beneath the secret place, the foundation everything else is built on. The theme changes each month. The foundation never does. Come if you want it, nothing here takes attendance.

The third Thursday · The Cloth
Our podcast. You listen in on real questions submitted by the women inside the Collective. When you are ready to submit your own and have it answered, that is your invitation into the Collective, where we go a level deeper together.

Plus the Gathering Place, where more than 1,200 women are building alongside you, and The Closet Method, the full course with every past teaching on demand.

When you are ready for more

The Closet is where you build the secret place. The Collective is everything you just read, and then the next room: learning to hear God for yourself in every area of your life, submitting your own questions and having them answered, and a real closet audit with me, where I personally walk through one woman's closet, live. The audit is for Collective students. Closet members are welcome to look in on one as our guest. If it stirs something in you, that seat is yours.

Learn about the Collective →

From the women in the room

Video testimonies wait for you inside.

“I was searching for a place where I could exhale and hear the voice of God after a devastating divorce. After stepping into the Closet, my hearing became keener to Holy Spirit. I feel reborn.”

Delora K.

“Before the Closet I felt alone, lost, and hopeless. After, I felt intimacy with God and full of hope, seeing major signs He was with me in one of my darkest seasons.”

Julie D.

“Before the Closet, I felt like a hamster on a wheel, fearful and questioning myself. After, those things no longer paralyze me. I have a greater desire to be in the Word and stay connected with my Source.”

Kim S.

“The Closet found me in a very low place. It taught me to commune with Holy Spirit in a deeper, more intimate way. The things the enemy tried to drown me with, I now surf over.”

Aderica W.

“Before, I felt lost, unsure, anxious. After, I feel loved, calm, and peaceful, looking and listening for the Holy Spirit, knowing I have a purpose to fulfill.”

Nicole J.

“Before the Closet, I felt aimless. After, I feel balanced, and more determined to make a difference in my sphere of power and strength.”

Deborah N.

“The Closet saved my life. I learned to stop rushing, and my body started to heal.”

Lasaunia T.

“God told me to vacate my apartment. It was hard and it was a struggle. Now I am back in my own home with an upgraded secret place, and I cannot wait to spend more time with God.”

Teysha D.

“I was first introduced to The Closet eight years ago. When the email came, this time I did not ignore it. This is one of the hardest seasons of my life, and I have chosen to trust God and truly walk by faith. I am grateful to be here.”

Mecca N. · California

“I applied to a graduate program and was told I would not hear back until March. God moved in three days. Acceptance letter, MSW program, done.”

Bridgette J. · Closet Coach

What they built

Your prayer closet does not have to be pretty. It has to be private.

A secret place chosen before the walls were finished
“I went there last night with a chair and sat and imagined what it’s going to be like when I am able to go in and close the door behind me.”Michelle, before the walls were finished

A secret place
The bed is not made. The Bible is already open.
A secret place
Inside the actual closet. Clothes still hanging. A poster board she made by hand.
A secret place
The kitchen table. The ironing board is still underneath it.
A secret place
A rug, a pillow to kneel on, three candles and an old radio.
A secret place
She did not clear the desk first. The bills are still sitting there.
A secret place
Her car. A work in progress, but she got it washed. Next, shampoo the inside.
A secret place
The back patio. She did not wait for better furniture.
A secret place
A recliner and a poster board. Marriage. Children. Intercession.
A secret place
A kneeling pad on bare tile, and a window facing the sunrise.
A secret place
A chair and a small table in the corner of a bedroom.
A secret place
The resting room at work. Until further notice.
A secret place
A sheepskin on the floor by the window, a journal, and nothing else.
A secret place
The treadmill did not move. The prayer shawl went over the chair.
A secret place
String lights along the baseboard. A stool, a rug, a lamp.
A secret place
Envelopes she made herself. Me. Family. Finances. Peace. Love. Business. Health.

“It is hard right now to find a place, but I will sit where I am to hear the voice of God.”

A woman in The Closet

The Disruption

Pay what you can.

For too long, real spiritual formation has been priced like a luxury for the few. I am removing the gate, because I refuse to let money be the reason you cannot get in a room with God. Pay once, and the door stays open.

$1  Come as you are. I'm walking through the door.

$11  Maybe you're coming home to His voice.

$33  Maybe you're done living far from Him.

$111  Maybe you're building your secret place for good.

Whoever you are, however you come, the door is the same. Come in.

Enter the Closet
Caren Williford

Not a program to finish. A room to keep coming back to.

Pay what you can. If money is tight, sow a little. If you have been blessed, sow more. Either way, the door opens.

Shut the door. Meet with God.

Enter the Closet