At Verso, we believe your pilgrimage starts not when you land in country, but when you decide to go. That’s because a pilgrimage is about much more than the destination.
A pilgrimage is not just a vacation, where one observes the sites and looks on as a bystander to ancient things or a photographer of things outside themselves. A pilgrimage is an encounter, where the pilgrim receives, engages, and is transformed.
We recognize that the practical things are important: what to pack, how to use your electrical devices, how to exchange money. So are the cultural things, like how to engage with the local community and knowing local customs and etiquette. But a pilgrimage is an interior journey as much as an exterior one, so we also want to help you prepare spiritually.
When you travel on a Verso pilgrimage, you receive resources beforehand that we’ve created just for your journey. Whether it’s sending emails to introduce you to some of the places you will visit, providing you with a do-it-yourself retreat, or hosting a virtual meeting to answer your questions, we want to help you as a whole person¬–mind, body, and soul–enter into your pilgrimage.
God wants to work through this trip. We want to help you till the soil of your heart so he can do his work.
The entire world around us is filled with God’s presence. We move through our lives with pilgrim hearts, desiring to see God’s presence in each and every moment of the day. We invite our pilgrims into our holistic vision of pilgrimage, because you never know when, where, or how God might work. All of the moments along the way, from the most breathtaking holy sites to the ordinary, seemingly routine activities, are sacred.
At Verso, we are experts in both travel and ministry, and our accompaniment will reflect that from day one through your re-entry into daily life after the pilgrimage. Because in many ways, the journey has just begun when you get home. How will you come back a different person? What graces will you have been given? How will you tell your story?
Since this is more than a vacation, you need more than a travel agent.
What are you seeking? Perhaps you don’t even know yet. Ask yourself. Ask God. Saying “yes” to a pilgrimage is an act of faith¬–a sort of leap into the unknown. What awaits you? In many ways, if you think you know the answer to that, you’ve limited God already.
Let’s go in with minds, hands, and hearts that are open ¬yet prepared to receive what God wants to give on this journey.
