Make Room This Advent

Your gift before December 31 helps form wise and faithful spiritual leaders.

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Christian leaders want to grow spiritually and guide others well.

They care deeply about their faith and the people they serve. However, many lack the deep spiritual formation, practical training, and support needed to sustain wise, resilient leadership.

Without intentional formation:

  • Leaders struggle to cultivate spiritual rhythms

  • Ministry becomes reactive instead of discerning

  • Churches lose the deep wisdom that guides communities well

It shouldn’t be this difficult for leaders to access the formation and training they need.

Your gift helps Emmaus create the spaces where transformation happens.

Emmaus Formation Center offers retreats, spiritual direction, and formation training that help leaders slow down, listen deeply, and learn to guide others with wisdom and care.

Your generosity makes these spaces possible. When you give, you help:

  • Keep retreats accessible for leaders seeking renewal

  • Provide bursaries so that formation is available to more people

  • Sustain spiritual direction that nurtures deep listening to God

  • Equip Christian leaders with practices and guidance skills that strengthen their communities

Your generosity enables leaders to receive the formation they need to guide others well.

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Formation doesn’t happen automatically

  1. Choose Your Gift

  2. Ministry Leaders are Renewed

  3. Churches, Families, and Communities are Blessed

Without spaces for spiritual direction, retreats, and guided formation, many Christian leaders continue serving without the rhythms, support, and guidance they need. Over time, leadership becomes reactive, weary, and unsustainable. Communities lose the wise, grounded leadership they desperately need.

But when you help create spaces to slow down, listen, and grow, everything changes.

  • A weary pastor discovers renewed clarity and courage.

  • A ministry leader learns how to discern God’s presence in everyday life.

  • A community listens deeply to God and one another.

Your generosity helps form the kind of leaders who strengthen the church and guide others toward a deeper life with God.

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Make Room for Formation This Advent

Advent is a season of waiting and making room.

Room for hope.

Room for listening.

Room for transformation.

Your year-end gift helps Emmaus continue forming leaders who guide others with wisdom, depth, and faithfulness.

Give before December 31 and help sustain this work in the year ahead.