The Incarnatio Center for Formation, Integration and Renewal invites the Westmont community into a holistic journey of spiritual and character formation, offering retreats, small groups, and collaborative programs that create space to know God more deeply and integrate every aspect of life into Christlike wholeness.
Mission:
Incarnatio encourages our community on a path of whole-person development including authentic spiritual and character formation and renewal. This is done by providing experiences and tools which help create space for knowing God and developing vision for another way of life in God’s kingdom.
Description
This center is built around exploring four foundational questions:
1. What is reality?
2. What is the good life and who is well off?
3. Who is a truly good person?
4. How does one become a truly good person?
These questions lead us to engage theoretical, historical and experiential avenues of inquiry. Finding ways to draw the varied aspects of life into a coherent whole—becoming a truly good person—is one of the great tasks of adulthood. And so, Incarnatio seeks to provide a context for addressing these questions. In part the answers seem to come through attention and exercise. But the answers also seem to come from beyond one’s self, from authentic friends, from teachers new and old including the great saints that have gone before us and even directly from God. And so, by journeying together through intentional habits that help us stretch, question, grow, and encounter Reality, we begin to integrate the aspects of our being into Christlike wholeness.
Resident Chaplins
The Resident Chaplain is a relational ministry role that encourages students to integrate their faith into everyday life by fostering discipleship, creating opportunities for spiritual formation, and cultivating a Christ-centered residential community. Working alongside other student leaders, Resident Chaplains help build a culture of honest, meaningful conversations about life and God’s ongoing presence and work, while also growing in their own faith through service and leadership.
RC's do this by:
- Modeling personal and spiritual maturity
- Supporting campus spiritual formation activities
- Providing spiritual formation programming in the halls
- Connecting through one-on-one conversations
Offerings
Capax Dei
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be in a small group? Capax Dei (loosely translated, "Space for God"), is the name for the community of small groups that meets during the school year, sponsored by the Westmont Campus Pastor's Office and the Westmont Center for Spiritual Formation. These groups are designed to be a place where you can learn to hear the voice of God in Scripture, make lifelong friendships, and find peace in the midst of sometimes busy and hectic lives. Want to know more? Check out this short informational video!
*Groups are built on a first-come, first-served basis.
Spiritual Direction
Spiritual direction is a practice of listening, with a companion, for the voice and movement of God in your life. The Martin Institute's Incarnatio Center provides a limited number of spiritual direction grants for faculty, staff and students who are interested.
Why might I meet with a spiritual director?
- To listen for God’s Spirit and direction in your life
- To be encouraged by a supportive companion
- To wrestle with questions (about God, faith, identity, etc.)
- To learn to pay to attention to the movement of God in your life in an intentional way
- To discern God’s guidance in a season of transition or discernment
Contact Us
Interested? Contact Mariah Velásquez