The Soul Care Institute provides Christian lay leaders, pastors, counselors, and spiritual directors the opportunity to explore and develop more fully the basic categories for providing soul care from a distinctively Christian worldview.

A STEPS group is a confidential, Christ-centered community that walks through John Ortberg's STEPS — a spiritual-formation adaptation of the classic 12 Steps — grounded in a simple conviction: transformation only happens in relationship, and God can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves.

A discussion group for pastors and ministry leaders, walking through Matthew Erickson's The Pastor as Gardener — trading the exhausting images of ministry for a truer, more hopeful one: the pastor who tends what only God can grow. Over six sessions and nine chapters we'll read the book together and do the slower work of reimagining our calling — not as isolated professionals, but as gardeners rooted in the same ground, learning to labor and to let go.

Deeper Journey is a two-year, eight-retreat experience that provides a comprehensive spiritual formation experience in light of the unique challenges of life and vocational ministry in the 21st century.

Ministry is demanding. You give so much of yourself away — to your congregation, your staff, your community. This breakfast is a chance for us to give something back to you.

The Soul Care Institute provides Christian lay leaders, pastors, counselors, and spiritual directors the opportunity to explore and develop more fully the basic categories for providing soul care from a distinctively Christian worldview.