About Us

We at Project Aurora...

...would like to meet you where you're at, to answer your questions, help you identify and form a goal, then to direct and assist you towards that goal.

...take a gentle approach to get past barriers of ignorance, shame, and denial.

...take a life-affirming approach to healthy intimacy.

...offer a holistic approach to recovery and healing in damaged areas of sexual intimacy - psychological, spiritual, physical, and emotional.

...take a compassionate way for defining love for today's youth.

...offer a spiritual aspect which modern theories and approaches have often overlooked, but which many human beings believe to be quite valid for their own lives.

...believe that the broken will heal the broken. They know how to fit the pieces together to feel and become whole.

Lori Eckstine, the director of Rachel's Vineyard retreats is a native Oregonian. Seeking to serve her community and state she was a co-founder in 2001 of the Rachel's Vineyard retreats offered in the Southwestern part of the state. Lori has been facilitating the retreats for 5 years. Under her co-leadership a parent non profit organization called Project Aurora was formed to include Rachel's Vineyard retreats.

Her background includes marriage in 1972 to her husband Jerry. They are the parents of five grown children. For 4 years Lori was the right to life chairperson for her community. She volunteered for 1st Way, a pregnancy support center for 4 years. Having experienced an abortion herself when she was age 16, participating in a Rachel's Vineyard retreat in 2000 for her own healing was the pivotal episode in bringing her to become involved in offering the retreats in Oregon. She has helped retreat teams in other states with her skills.

Lori has spoken about abortion healing to many groups in Oregon and other states and to numerous churches all over Oregon.