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There is a long history within faith and spiritual settings across the United States to not quantify the spiritual, based on the respectful ideology that humans are not numbers and that the quality of spiritual wholeness is beyond quantifying. Simultaneously, there are direct service organizations that are striving for a fully holistic approach to recovery and healing. Spiritual metrics help support, guide, and expand such efforts. A scholarship to the 2015 Mixed Methods Conference in San Antonio significantly informed and transformed the perspective of that ideology within a direct service organization (Mixed Methods Conference, 2015). The specific example and context for the needed spiritual metrics was the Haven for Hope Transformational Campus in San Antonio, Texas. Haven’s Mission is to offer a place of hope and new beginnings ... by providing, coordinating, and delivering an efficient system of care for people experiencing homelessness. Haven’s Vision is ending homelessness through transformation (Haven for Hope Vision, Mission and Plan Toolkit, 2013). The definition of transformation that is utilized at Haven for Hope is: An act, process, and instance of major or complete change in someone’s appearance, form, life situation and/or journey (Haven for Hope Values Development, 2014). Transformation takes many shapes at Haven. On any given day, approximately 800 people reside on the Transformational Campus. Those who reside at Haven include single men and women, families and veterans. Job placement and training programs are provided along with in-house recovery and in-house mental health programs. There are 137 partnering organizations that provide over 300 services. On average there are 1,000 volunteers working on the campus each month (Haven for Hope Fact Sheet, 2017). From housing to healthcare,