#GivingTuesday 2024

December 3 is #GivingTuesday! Please consider making a gift to support our ministry at Hope College. We thank you for your generosity!

We share stories from our current students every year during October and November. When you give to the Saint Benedict Institute, your generosity will foster many new stories in the lives of students at Hope College in the years to come. 

Check out our featured students below!

Commitment Is Freedom

“Since participating in Genesis, I have grown in self-control, love, and desire for the Lord, and I have learned about more structured ways to pray.”

Read Lydia's Story

Poverty, Offering, Solidarity

“From July 1-10, I had the opportunity to serve in Costa Rica with the FOCUS missionary team that is on campus! I would describe the work with three different words—poverty, offering, and solidarity.”

Read Drew’s Story

True Desire for Holiness

“One of the biggest fruits that I have seen in my life is an increase in true desire for holiness and closer union with God. I am so thankful for the fertile ground Exodus 90 provided for my faith to improve, and I look forward to what God will do with this newfound desire.”

Read Castle's Story

Saying “Yes” to the Lord

“I was determined that, even with these fears filling my mind, my eyes would remain fixed on the Lord. Through prayerful discernment and encouragement, I said “yes” to leading a Bible study.”

Read Elsa’s Story

#GivingTuesday 2023

November 28 is #GivingTuesday! Please consider making a gift to support our ministry at Hope College.

We share stories from our current students every year during October and November. When you give to the Saint Benedict Institute, your generosity will foster many new stories in the lives of students at Hope College in the years to come. 

Check out our featured students below!

Molly Leonard on Daily Mass

“Regularly attending daily Mass has been the single most important part of my life at Hope.”

Read Molly's Story

Altar Servers

“What team could be better than serving the Lord with your bros?”

Read the Altar Servers’ Stories

Julia Suss on Freshman Year

“The Catholic life on campus has helped bring me back to what really matters.

Read Julia's Story

Drew Hoeksema on Seeking the Truth

“Even when I don't fully recognize it, I am so grateful to have access to the remarkable ministry of the Saint Benedict Institute.”

Read Drew’s Stories

#GivingTuesday 2022

November 29 is #GivingTuesday! Please consider making a gift to support our ministry at Hope College. Anyone who gives $25 or more on Giving Tuesday will receive a Saint Benedict medal with a card explaining this powerful sacramental.

We share stories from our current students every year during October and November. This year, we have focused on our new student interns. These Student Stories are beautiful accounts of community, prayer, worship, intellectual and spiritual growth, and giving back. When you give to the Saint Benedict Institute, your generosity will foster many new stories in the lives of students at Hope College in the years to come. 

Check out our featured students below!

William Hurley

“Access to Christian thought through the speakers whom SBI has invited to campus has been very helpful and important to me. I seldom see groups on campus bring speakers to talk about controversial aspects of the faith, and I am grateful to the Saint Benedict Institute for braving the storm and speaking the truth in love.”

Read William's Story

Cameron Maloney

“It all started when Fr. Nick invited me to get coffee during my freshman year. I learned about daily Mass on campus, adoration, confession, and spiritual mentorship. All of these things were offered to me, and I quickly made them a part of my weekly routine. The opportunities that the Saint Benedict Institute offered and the community that came with it changed my life.”

Read Cameron’s Story

Kirsten Miskowski

“If you were to tell me five years ago that I’d be receiving spiritual direction from a Catholic priest on a weekly basis, I would have looked at you like you were crazy. When I was a freshman at Hope College, first trying to find my footing on campus, I was also in the midst of figuring out where I stood in relation to Christ. Coming out of a very dark period in my life, I was grasping for some answers and seeking Truth.”

Read Kirsten's Story

Alec Kowalski

“The sacrifices of Exodus paved the way for a deeper understanding and relationship with Christ. Instead of wasting an hour scrolling through social media, I was invited to spend that hour with the Lord. I was freed from the saturating grips of technology and modern society and left with a simpler life with eyes turned towards the Lord.”

Read Alec’s Stories

#GivingTuesday 2021

November 30 is #GivingTuesday! Please consider making a gift to support our ministry at Hope College. Throughout the months of October and November we have shared several stories from our current students. They are beautiful accounts of community, prayer, worship, and intellectual and spiritual growth. When you give to the Saint Benedict Institute, your generosity will foster many new stories in the lives of students at Hope College in the years to come. 

Check out our featured students below!

Welcome Back!

“The seats were full of students excited to see one another as the new school year began. We gathered together and worshipped and became one through the Body of Christ, all together on our campus, in our space. Welcome back, Hope College! The Lord has great plans in store for us.”

Read Grace Brown's Story

Praying in Song

“I enjoy playing for the on-campus Mass as a way to give back to the community that has given me so many of the parts of life that matter, like real friendships, a deeper relationship with the Lord, and my faith as a whole.”

Read Kelli Trudeau’s Story

Letting Go

“We must let go of the things on this earth and keep our focus on the things above. This fueled my purpose, and this is what Exodus 365 taught me. I am forever changed.”

Read Dan Campbell's Story

Thomistic Circles Conference

Karlie: "Like a lot of students, I came into college thinking the only purpose of being here was to take the classes necessary to get a good job. But God has been gently redirecting me to see this as a unique time to think and learn about what is true, good, beautiful, and leads me to him, regardless of if it will help me get a particular job."

Kamaron: "I met amazing students who all sought to live faithfully and to grow in knowledge of heavenly things, and we had the opportunity to worship and pray with the Dominicans. During the retreat, the Holy Spirit fixed my eyes upon heavenly wisdom and the mysteries that God has given his Church to meditate on. I grew in my desire to know God more and to continually submit myself to him."

Read Karlie's and Kam's Stories