The Caritas Center | Christian Spiritual Formation & Online Certificate Program

Walking the way of love

At Caritas, we’re listening and discerning our cultural moment and the longings of believers, while staying rooted in our calling to cultivate transformation—shaped by Scripture, empowered by the Spirit, and formed in community—into radical, Christlike love.

The Journey Continues Deeper into God’s Heart

Caritas is a community of people learning to live in the love of Christ. Through many years of retreat, teaching, and spiritual direction, God has gently revealed three interwoven pathways for this new season of ministry.

Three Pathways of Formations

Explore each pathway by clicking the tiles below.

Contact: Personal Formation

Step into a sacred pathway toward deeper intimacy with God with a face to face small gathering of believers through Spiritual Formation Intensives with Ray and Nancy. Experience spiritual formation through thoughtful teaching, shared practices, and life-giving retreats.

Connection: Life in Community

Caritas is a community devoted to prayer, presence, and shared transformation through online engagement. Together we explore spiritual growth and relational wholeness through live webinars, evenings with Q&A conversations with Ray and Nancy, the Stages of the Soul podcast—all nurturing deeper connection with God and one another.

Curation: Resources for the Growing Soul

An immersive website will be launched to deliver spiritually rich and thoughtfully curated Spiritual Formation resources such as bi-weekly emails, guided scriptural meditations, audio books, and Ray’s and Nancy’s online messages—offering a steady stream of nourishing formation for individuals, small groups, and fellowships.

Formation that meets this moment.

Rooted in Scripture & Tradition
Drawing from Scripture, the wisdom of the Church, and the long story of God's people.
Held in community
Small gathering, shared practices, and safe places for honest questions and holy longing.
Sent in love
Formation that naturally turns outward in hospitality, justice, mercy, and everyday faithfulness.

Listening & discernment

We are articulating the core movements of this new season and gathering a circle of leaders, pastors, and companions to help shape it.

Spiritual Formation Intensive — Pilot Launch

Select cohorts will embark on a deepening journey of spiritual growth, supported by thoughtful readings, life-giving practices, and meaningful guided conversations.

Launching Our New Website

Our new website will offer an immersive experience—an inviting home for seekers, a space where believers can be nourished by rich and thoughtful content, and a gentle pathway into deeper connection with God at a contemplative pace.

"The Lord met me here in ways I didn't expect."

The new direction is not theoretical; it is growing out of the lived stories of those who have prayed, studied, and walked with Ray and Nancy and Caritas over many years.

Through the Caritas spiritual formation program, I have found transformation, especially by grounding me in the deep, personal truth of what Jesus did on the cross for me—not just something I know in my head, but something I feel deeply now, knowing He loves me fully even as I hold my own sin honestly before Him. The retreats have given me a safe place to meet Him, and the community has helped me experience authentic, non-performative belonging.

I am grateful to Caritas Center for all the help I’ve received. My whole life has changed, with their help. Christ is becoming my center and I hear and see God and others more clearly.

Caritas engaged my thirst for the deeper things of God. I was lovingly held as I journeyed toward transformation, engaging my person woundedness and sin to find healing. Beside me was a community of believers on their own road. Each of us longing to become more and more like Christ. I am forever grateful!

In the Fall of 2017 I wanted to know if people actually changed and became more like Jesus. Throughout my time with Caritas, I have watched others change right in front of my eyes, and I'm certainly not the same person either. I continue to know Christ's love for me more deeply and I'm so grateful for deep relationships through Caritas that have challenged and supported as Christ did his work in me.

Walk with Us

Help shape this next chapter.

We are gathering stories, hopes, and questions from those connected to Caritas. Your experience can help us discern what will serve the body of Christ in this season.

Join the Journey

Help us realize the vision that God has for us by your prayers, engagement and financial support.

Stay Connected

Keep in touch with our ongoing events, bi-weekly devotional emails, and other enrichment opportunities.

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