Built to Help Pilgrimage Travel Ministries Succeed

Pilgrimage changes lives! We know this. We have seen it over and over again. People return filled and renewed in their faith. They become powerful forces in their parish. They have EXPERIENCED the Good News and they want to share it with others.

Thus, a thriving Pilgrimage Travel Ministry can be a powerful force for evangelization. Select International Tours and Ituria Journeys are excited to help more pilgrimage ministries succeed and in turn welcome new faithful while recharging the faith of entire parishes.

We have had front-row seats to thousands of pilgrimages and hundreds of pilgrimage ministries. We know what works and how the best leaders operate. By sharing this knowledge, we know that we can help your ministry get up and running more quickly, be more effective, and make a greater impact in less time.

Meet Your Instructors

Select International Tours

Edita Krunic, our company President, began Select international Tours thirty-three years ago with the goal of getting more people to the sacred sites in Medjugorje. Her faith was rewarded when Select International Tours became the first US company to send pilgrims there! Soon, she was helping Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant leaders to organize pilgrimages for their groups to sacred sites around the world.

Matt Maszczak’s pilgrimage experience began on the Camino de Santiago and after returning from that trip, he found a place to use his marketing experience and love for travel at Select International Tours.

Today, Select International is known for its compassion, service, and innovation. Select International Tours and Cruises pioneered faith-based group travel programs that combine faith and food, faith and fitness, and was the first company to offer Small Ship Pilgrimage Cruises.

Select International is a small company with a big heart. Our 501(c)3 charitable foundation, Select to Give, directly supports Christians living in the Holy Land. Learn more on the Select to Give website.

Iturria Journeys

Sandy’s passion for her faith, family, pilgrimage, and the abundant life that God has provided have led her down many paths; first as an engineer and ecologist, then as a pilgrim and missionary, and now as a trainer helping others to experience the same abundance. Her greatest passion, however, is for people. And she now draws on her gifts and travel experience to help others affect their communities through pilgrimage. 

Iturria is a Basque word that means “wellspring,” and it is rooted deeply in scripture when Jesus encounters the Woman at the Well. “The water I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” (John 4:14). The encounter of Jesus and the Woman at the well is a perfect image of the pilgrimage experience.

Iturria Journeys’ goal is to train, inspire, and form Group Leaders to assist Priests and faith leaders in every Diocese across the United States.  With this reality, people from every State will have the opportunity to encounter Christ on pilgrimage and thus help our communities to be forever changed. 

Choose How You Want to Learn

Our goal is to make sure that you have the time and resources you need to be a successful Pilgrimage Group Leader. Since we all learn differently and have very different schedules, we have created two options to serve most people. When you speak with one of our coaches, we can help you decide which study option is best for you. 

Independent Study

If you like to work at your own pace, this is the course for you. You will go through the video lessons and materials on your own. But don’t worry, if you get stuck, we are only an email away. During the course, you will meet the instructors on two live calls, but you will not have weekly coaching.