Often a warm welcome, a caring person to listen, a nice meal, and a room are  healing to people.  The Retreat Center fosters an atmosphere of hospitality and justice in the Franciscan Tradition as well as direct services to those in need. St. Francis of Assisi chose to live as a poor man to care for the poor of his time.  This included the sick and the lepers and those rejected by others. In that spirit, we provide Franciscan Hospitality to a diversity of guests, including those who are refugees and need a temporary place, especially families who have permission to seek asylum and want help to get to family members or sponsors in the US. We also host those who are in imminent danger of deportation and are trying to keep their family together.