Crossroads: The ISP Blog
Meet Dara and Tria
ISP's Ambassadors of Hope program empowers those who have experienced first-hand the transformative effect of ISP to become future leaders in our ministry. ISP Ambassadors are men and women of faith serving as volunteers who long to share their gifts, talents and...
Company of Grace Speaker Spotlight: Mary Karr
ISP is thrilled to include Mary Karr in our evening of special guests and storytellers at the 25th Anniversary celebration of the Company of Grace on March 9, 2023. Mary Karr is an award-winning poet, essayist, songwriter, and memoirist from East Texas. She rose to...
“So, what’s your story?”
Stories of faith are sacred stories. How we speak to God, how we hear God, and where we see God’s face are all part of our own individual sacred relationships. The relationship changes over time; it ebbs and flows, thins out or grows up, twists and turns. All parts of...
Introducing Lisa Sharon Harper
We are gearing up to welcome a slate of special guests and storytellers at the 25th Anniversary celebration of the Company of Grace on March 9, 2023. We're particularly excited to announce that speaker, writer and activist Lisa Sharon Harper will be in conversation...
Remembering Amanda
It is with heavy hearts that we share the passing of our dear friend Amanda Longe Asque: alumna extraordinaire, Company of Grace awardee, former Board member, and one of ISP’s greatest ambassadors. Amanda received a double lung transplant in 2020 after a difficult...
A Hopefulness Has Bloomed (Reflection #4 in our Advent Series)
by Jack Gonsalves, ISP Orange County Coordinator I became a volunteer with ISP about seven years ago. I was a little intimidated by the whole idea, but inside the Lord had been inviting me for years to get to know those who are or have been homeless. Many years ago, I...
Finding Love in Unlikely Places (Reflection #3 in our Advent Series)
by Dawn Davis For me, Advent is about LOVE. Love can be found in the most unlikely places. On a street corner, I saw love. A random stranger stopped to help an elderly woman cross the street. Without hesitation, he greeted her with a smile and escorted her across the...
The Gift of A Spiritual Companionship (Reflection #2 in our Advent Series)
by Fr. Bill Creed, SJ Recently, I was surprised to be chatting with a guy I had not seen in nearly two decades. He talked about the time twenty years ago when I had known him as a kind of newly reformed gang member. Often he would show up for meetings wearing a tank...
The Gift of Sacred Stories: Dorothy’s Reflection
Finding Hope: My First ISP Retreat by Dorothy Celestin In 2018, I was coming out of the hardship of drug addiction. I had nowhere to turn, I didn’t know which way to go, and I didn’t have much to live for. I was staying in a halfway house full of chaos--until I was...
The Gift of Sacred Stories: An Advent Journey with ISP
ISP invites you to reflect and pray with our reflection series for this Advent, this time of waiting in the darkness. Maybe you can recall a time in your own life when you felt a sense of being stuck in the dark, afraid, not knowing what was next. And then, in the...
