LOYOLA

Since 1977, we have served people as companions on their spiritual journeys. We help people find their own direction in faith, find healing and peace, find comfort in grief and loss, find balance in daily life. Some can afford to pay for our services, many cannot. We serve students, the unemployed, people with limited income. Through our Liz Kerwin Scholarship Fund, we are able to serve everyone who comes to us.

Recently we have begun to offer spiritual direction at no cost to veterans and their family members through our Welcome Home program. The Welcome Home program helps veterans and family members deal with the spiritual wounds of war and deployment, offering them a place of listening and acceptance, and the spiritual tools to reintegrate into families, work places and communities.

We also walk with many who serve as leaders in our society. Many of the leaders we support work within the nonprofit sector where salaries are lower. Our Scholarship Fund allows them to have the spiritual care they need to stay in ministry and to grapple with significant challenges. Their presence in our community as transformed persons has a ripple effect on many others.

From the people we've touched:
"I was stuck in a dead-end job, having no luck finding a new job, and dreamed of going to graduate school in health care. Because of financial constraints, I had to live a very simple lifestyle with my parents. Spiritual direction became a very important part of my overall peace and stability during this time in my life, though I often couldn't afford to give much or anything at all. In spiritual direction I found encouragement to focus on the most important dimensions of myself, mainly my relationship with God, and wanting to bring more and more of my life into that hope-giving relationship. I still have to deal with the hard financial and emotional realities of daily life, but spiritual direction gives me a chance to name and claim the inner growth that is still happening along this hard stretch of road."