SOULS Church

Jake sat in his first ceremony this month, May 2026. After time in the military and decades of disconnection from the heart, he has found a love within greater than ever imagined. It’s all in my heart. Since the ceremony, there’s been this beautiful feeling awakening inside me — this overwhelming sense of love in the most beautiful way. More than anything, I feel immense gratitude: gratitude for the journey, but also, for the first time in my life, gratitude for myself. I’ve realized that...

Tobin Marsh has led an adventurous, unconventional life. Raised six years in Japan, from a young age he felt drawn to different cultures and questions of human suffering. Tobin answered his early spiritual longings through extensive solo travels, wilderness backpacking, hopping freight trains, and long journeys on foot through remote corners of Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and China. He has degrees in International Affairs and a Master’s in Theology. For 25 years Tobin was a devout Quaker. His...

“My path is service. My service is SOULS. And it makes me really, really happy.” For this month’s Wakey Wakey spotlight, we chatted with Susanita about the origin of SOULS and were honored to learn of the heart-opening journey that started it all. She took us back to the very beginning, well before the clarity of a mission, to a series of life experiences that gradually and powerfully reshaped her understanding of service, community, and love. Raised in a secular Jewish environment that...