The Orientation Program: these two weeks that change your life...

The Orientation Program is the next step after the Come and See week­end. Once some­one has dis­cerned he or she is called and ready to vol­un­teer with Heart’s Home, he or she is sched­uled for a two-week train­ing pro­gram, to­geth­er with any other fu­ture vol­un­teer. During this time, they have the op­por­tu­ni­ty to ex­plore more in depth the Charism of Compassion and to learn about the de­mands and beau­ty of mis­sion­ary life.

This hap­pens through dai­ly talks, work­shops and ac­tiv­i­ties led by dif­fer­ent Heart’s Home mem­bers, as well as through prayer, min­istry and the read­ing of in­spir­ing lit­ter­a­ture by our founder, Father Thierry de Roucy, and other spir­i­tu­al au­thors or the­olo­gians who have in­spired Heart’s Home’s charism and mis­sion.

This two-week train­ing pro­gram is a much ap­pre­ci­at­ed tran­si­tion for our vol­un­teers be­tween their col­lege or work­ing life in­to mis­sion life. Trainees ac­tu­al­ly stay at the Heart’s Home house in Brooklyn and share our dai­ly life of prayer, apos­to­late and com­mu­ni­ty. It is there­fore a time to pre­pare for the mis­sion, both spir­i­tu­al­ly and prac­ti­cal­ly!

Trainees do not need any speci­fic ma­te­ri­al, ex­cept for their per­son­al be­long­ings, a note­book, and a Bible. Towels and sheets as well as ma­te­ri­al and spir­i­tu­al food (all writ­ten ma­te­ri­al) will be pro­vid­ed!

So… "do not be afraid! Christ takes noth­ing away, and he gives you ev­ery­thing. When we give our­selves to him, we re­ceive a hun­dred­fold in re­turn." (Benedict XVI, Inauguration mass)