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Spiritual direction has been pivotal to so many in their relationships with God, with the church, and with others. By partnering with Emmaus in prayer and finances, together we can help those who search for God’s will and place in their lives and ministries.

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Without your generosity, Emmaus would not be able to continue in the vital ministries of Spiritual Formation and Spiritual Direction. Our subsidized training program and subsidized spirtual direction for pastors, are enabled by your generosity. Help Emmaus continue to impact countless churches across Canada. Please donate now.

1. Support Spiritual Direction Training.

Through Emmaus, you can be part of engaging churches, providing trained and gifted spiritual companions who come alongside disillusioned Christ-followers, guiding them back to Christ, and the abundant life the Scriptures promise.

Thank you to all who donated towards Spiritual Direction Training in 2018!

2. Education Development

Help Emmaus secure excellent development staff, as our program transitions to the Hybrid format: online + residency components.

Thank you to all who donated towards Education Development in 2018!

3. Support a pastor with monthly spiritual direction

Support a pastor through Emmaus, in impacting countless churches across Canada. Refill the well of a pastor with personalized, life-giving spiritual direction. $50/month ensures 1 more pastor receives much-needed spiritual companionship to co-discern the movement of God, the invitation of God, and to respond to the challenges of pastoral ministry. Please donate now.

Thank you to all who donated towards supporting a pastor, with spiritual direction, in 2018!

Methods for Donors

Emmaus Formation Centre is a registered charitable organization:

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Three ways to donate, below.

1. Pay by cheque and mail it to the address below, payable to Emmaus Formation Centre

Emmaus Formation Centre
1422 Miraya Court, Mississauga, Ontario, L5C 2T5

2. Credit card via Canada Helps

All donations are secured through Canada Helps.org

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3. To donate Securities to Emmaus Formation Centre, complete the following:

Download the Gift of Securities Form or call the Emmaus broker at and fax the completed form to  Emmaus Formation Centre’s broker at 905-842- 5635 to initiate process.
Send by fax, at same number, a copy of the completed Gift of Securities Form to Donor’s Broker/Brokerage/Financial Institution with the donation request.
Contact 905 842 5635,  advising Industrial Alliance Securities of securities transfer

* Our Charitable Registration number is 834238032RR0001

Spiritual formation gives us some really important Christian tools, primarily the spiritual practices to meet the deep longings and the big challenges of life.

Rev. Dr. Paul Bramer

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The testimonies of people who had experienced the benefits of having a spiritual director were moving and inspiring. Your ministry is a wonderful expression of God's love and tender care for His treasures here on earth.

Steve Read, PHD

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There's so much more you can learn with other people than when you're just reading scripture by yourself. The Spiritual Direction program has expanded my thinking about God, spirituality and how very different we all relate to Him. I highly recommend this program.

Tammy Pierce, Emmaus Student

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The course has developed a new hunger in me for scripture. I also appreciate the time of group spiritual direction as we process together between classes.

Lynne Ball, Emmaus Student

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Taking time in spiritual direction to reflect on where God is, day-to-day, has awakened in me, a clarity of vision. It has renewed my passion and continues to be a crucial part of my spiritual discipline. The impact of spiritual direction affects not only me, but my congregation and the community we serve.

Rev. Angie Song, Associate Pastor, Vaughan Community Church

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The first course – Introduction to Spiritual Formation – gave us high quality instruction that incorporated visuals, art, music, spiritual direction exercises as well as teaching that reflected a scholarly breadth of understanding and insight into both historical and current Christianity. I’d recommend this course, alone, for anyone interested in gaining a solid introduction into ancient-contemporary Christianity, and grasping something of how our orthopraxy and orthodoxy can fit even better together! Emmaus is a long-waited for gift, to believers and churches in the GTA and surrounding areas.

Naomi Johnson, Emmaus Student

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Ministry is challenging and can leave those who pursue it feeling depleted and lonely. Spiritual direction replenishes me. It deepens my perspective, keeps me grounded in God’s Word and reminds me that I am connected with Jesus and his community of friends.

Rev. Andrew Gordon, Pastor, Compass Church

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I discovered that I was serving out of a depletion—a growing depletion of soul. And so I knew that I needed someone to come alongside of me, and not listen for me—but to listen with me. And I think every emerging leader needs a spiritual director. Not to replace God. Not to replace the discipline of being in silence, in solitude, and listening to God through scripture, through His holy word, through the presence of the Holy Spirit—but to help clarify the questions.

Rev. Marc Gauvreau – PAOC Discipleship & Spiritual Direction

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Spiritual direction and spiritual formation has been a journey that I will continue for as long as I’m in ministry, and as long as I have breath because the benefits are just so astounding, and I can’t imagine carrying on in ministry without it.

Rev. Ron Shantz, Executive Director, Front Line Outreach

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How is your relationship deepened and nurtured in the context of your ministry? Many in ministry often say it’s not, and we’re all running around like a chicken without a head. It’s crucial, that we all have—especially in ministry—a spiritual director. These conversations about spiritual direction are immensely helpful because it starts where you are at—of your own ego and of your own desire to be somebody important in ministry. Now I can lead a life where I'm responding to God, rather than soliciting a response from God.

Rev. John Kim – Pastor Bridgeway Church

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The Individual Retreat is a process over a period of days where you interact with scripture, learn ways of praying, and develop that kind of personal connection with God. So it’s a process of developing our soul-connection—spirit-connection—with God, so that we are seeing God’s work in daily life, and that we are creating space for God in the crush of the normal things that happen in our daily lives. So that is one of the formation processes that an organization like Emmaus can facilitate or help with in churches—is to run retreats like that, that help people get into that mindset.

Rick Wukasch – Associate Pastor, The Meeting House

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Spiritual direction has been pivotal to so many in their relationships with God, with the church, and with others. By partnering with Emmaus in prayer and finances, together we can help those who search for God’s will and place in their lives and ministries.

Please Donate Now

1. Support Spiritual Direction Training.

2. Education Development

3. Support a pastor with monthly spiritual direction

Methods for Donors

834238032RR0001

1. Pay by cheque and mail it to the address below, payable to Emmaus Formation Centre

2. Credit card via Canada Helps

3. To donate Securities to Emmaus Formation Centre, complete the following:

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