The Ignatian Center: Coming Soon!

It’s time for an update on a significant effort I am spearheading.

I’m starting an organization dedicated to Ignatian spirituality, The Ignatian Center. The Ignatian Center will offer a full range of Ignatian offerings (mostly online) from introductory Ignatian events to the Exercises, experiences for those who have prayed the Exercises and want to continue their journey, and Ignatian training and ongoing Ignatian learning. The overall goal is to share the goodness that we’ve experienced with more people! I want more people to be able to pray the Exercises and continue on in a longer Ignatian journey. I also want to see more directors trained and offering the Exercises. Oh, and I would love to have a strong and active support community for those of us on this journey!

We are currently hard at work building the infrastructure for The Ignatian Center and hope to officially launch it this coming spring. We will start by rolling many of my offerings into this effort, but we hope it becomes a place where other Ignatian directors can offer their gifts and be a place with listings of Ignatian spiritual directors and a list of directors offering the Exercises in the coming year.

If you want to know more about this effort I will be setting up some informational Zoom meetings in the upcoming months where I can share the vision in more detail and answer questions. If you are interested in joining one of these informational meetings just reply to this email and let me know.

In the meantime as we build The Ignatian Center, here are some ways you could join us in this effort:

1. Pray! This won’t be an easy effort. Please pray for me and for The Ignatian Center as you remember.

2. Fundraising! We will have some significant startup costs this year as we launch this effort. We have two significant commitments from donors already, which gives us confidence to move forward, but we still have a long way to go. So if you want to join us in supporting this effort, we would love to have your support. Additionally, if you know someone who has found a lot of life by praying the Exercises and might want to contribute to this effort please connect them with me. Online donations can be made at this link and then choose The Ignatian Center under funds. If you want to contribute by check or bank transfer, please contact me for details.

3. Contribute your time and talents! What gifts or skills would you like to use to help make this effort a reality? If there is something you would like to offer, please reach out! Here are a few specific ways you could participate. This is not an exhaustive list!

1. Someone to create a logo, promotional templates, and other design needs for this project

2. Someone to design and/or produce the e-newsletter for this effort

3. Someone to help coordinate fundraising efforts

4. Some people to contribute some written or video resources for the website resource page

5. When we are ready to launch, someone to hire to handle ongoing administrative tasks for this effort. 

I’ll be sharing more as we move forward. As always, I’m glad to hear your thoughts and ideas and look forward to what God will do!

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