Finding Healing Through Service: Radical hospitality transformed his life and community - Chris Stepien

Discover the powerful journey of a seasoned media professional who left Detroit for Chicago, only to find his life transformed through volunteering with the Precious Blood Ministry of Reconciliation. After decades, he sought a deeper purpose and found it serving alongside this caring ministry on Chicago’s South Side. Through radical hospitality and restorative justice, he not only helped formerly incarcerated individuals build new lives but also experienced profound personal healing, coming to terms with the generational trauma of his parents’ survival of Nazi-occupied Poland. His story reveals how Precious Blood’s mission of accompaniment, peace circles, and mercy-based justice empowers communities wounded by violence, poverty, and incarceration, proving that true service is about being with people in their struggles and letting their courage and healing transform us in return.