Overview

Spiritual Enrichment for Young Adults

Young adults yearn to live life fully and purposefully contribute to the well-being of their immediate community and the world at large. SEYA offers opportunities for young adults to reflect on their personal life experience and place in this world through a grounding in God’s palpable grace.

The Ignatian Spirituality Center (ISC) is committed to explore, support, and create avenues that nourish and promote an active life of faith within the young adult community (aged 21-35) in our region.

“Spirituality on Tap” is SEYA’s core program. These monthly evening events gather young adults into a welcoming community. The gathering each month revolves around a different theme arising from a contemporary spiritual topic pertinent to the personal and communal spirituality of young adults’ lives. The facilitator of the evening grounds the current theme in Ignatian tradition and vision (for info about Ignatian Spirituality click here) to bring the topic to life, connecting it to our participants’ personal lives. The evenings usually include a time of guided prayer, meditation or silence, a formation experience, small group conversation, and time for socializing. Also, following some of our gatherings, there is an option of continuing informally at a local pub.

The VISION for SEYA is rooted in a deep knowing of God’s love. Many young adults in their twenties and thirties are trying to figure out how to live and what to do with their lives. SEYA offers opportunities and experiences aimed at grounding young adults in God’s love so they can courageously follow their deepest desires. SEYA is crucial in a time when many young people feel they cannot bring their whole selves to the religious institutions in which they were raised. In Ignatian Spirituality there need not be a separation of personal life choices, culture and one’s search for God, but rather it offers a continual integration of culture and personal experience into one’s spiritual life. As we live in the most “unchurched” part of the county, our communities are full of young adults desiring spiritual nourishment outside of formal church institutions.

Creating community across denominational lines and with young adults who do not identify with a faith tradition is a goal for SEYA this coming year. One of the many gifts of Ignatian Spirituality is its ability to cultivate closeness with God within one’s faith tradition.

LOGISTICS of “Spirituality on Tap.” Gatherings are offered monthly in both King and Pierce County. Each month ISC partners with a different local community to co-host an event. We often gather at a at a restaurant, coffee shop, hosting church’s facility, park or pub.