Perhaps a Christmas gift idea…

Sacred Journey is a ministry that has touched over 200 souls who have either been to our home or other venues. We’ve even ministered to missionaries internationally. (That was a long flight) In 2025, we facilitated four retreats in our home.

We think we have facilitated around 25 soul-care retreats called Sacred Journey. We have never charged for these retreats in the years we have led them. But that doesn’t mean they are free. Each retreat costs between $ 2,500 and $3,000. We have been able to offer these at no cost to participants due to the generosity of past participants or others who believe in Sacred Journey.

This year, ahead of Giving Tuesday, which is a movement to counterbalance the commercialism of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, I would like to ask you to consider donating to the Soul Care ministry at Mountain Heights Church. (If you give it through the church, you will receive a tax credit.)

In exchange for a suggested donation of $25 per book, I will send you a signed copy of the devotional books I have written in years past. I have also put together a journal that I will send you for a suggested donation of $10.

Each book costs me $7 to print and ship to each person. So, if I have done the math correctly, Sacred Journey will receive $18 per book.

Below is the description of each book, found on the back cover.

Walking Ancient Paths: A Daily Liturgy For The Sacred Journey

Humans create paths through erosion from footfall. These paths are called desire paths. Desire paths form when people or animals repeatedly take the same route, creating a strip of trodden earth.

The same could be said of spiritual paths. These ancient tracks can be hard to find in our modern world. But once found, the paths multitudes of saints, poets, and pilgrims have worn down through their travels well before us can show the way to fulfilling the longing underneath all longings — the heart’s great desire for God. This book is a collection of trail markers for you on your journey.

Field Notes on the Jesus Way 

The observations of a researcher engaged in hands-on work are called fieldnotes. In the case of this set of essays, they come from a flawed but determined pilgrim in a journey of obeying Jesus when he said, “Come, follow me.” Drawn from a life shaped by relationships, suffering, mistakes, and love for the wilderness, this little book will give you evidence for the phenomenon of grace and a few trail markers along the way- the Jesus way.

Thus says the Lord: Stand at the crossroads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way lies; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. Jeremiah 6:16

The Sacred Life Journal

The purpose of the journal is to assist you in living a more reflective and contemplative life. It is divided into two simple movements: one to reflect on a gospel passage in the morning and another to reflect on God’s work in your day.

These are variations of the classic Christian disciplines of Lection Divina, developed by St. Benedict, and the Prayer of Examen, developed by St. Ignatius. There is a full explanation for each of these practices in the journal, along with a sixty-day reading plan for the Psalms that I enjoy.

So, reach out to me at joseph.o.chambers@gmail.com if you would like a signed copy of one of the two devotionals.

You can give by making a check out to Mountain Heights Church and putting “soul care” in the memo line, and send it to me at 16120 Mt. Princeton Road, Buena Vista, CO 81211. (I’ll see to it that the church receives the money)

OR…

You can give on the Mountain Heights website, in the designated funds tab, to the sub fund called “Soul Care.”  https://www.mhbc.life/

If you choose to give online, please let me know so I can send you however many books you need.

Thanks for considering this.

Blessings,

Joe and Lynette