By  Rebekah Miller, Covenant House Faith Community Volunteer Covenant House is the largest non-profit organization in the Americas that supports homeless youth. Faith Community is a program that offers a small stipend for spending  a year of service in one of four cities. We embrace three pillars: Service, Prayer, and Community. I am currently doing […]

By Kevin Cacabelos, PLACE Corps Volunteer serving in Los Angeles, CA About a month and a half into my experience with PLACE Corps, a feeling of happiness engulfed  me. As I knelt and prayed, I looked up at the cross while the choir sang “One Bread, One Body.” I glanced at my students who were […]

By Joe Loney, Maryknoll Lay Missioner serving in Quallacollo, Bolivia We met in a ten by five foot room, which serves as a computer skills room, library, interview room and combined storage-closet for the new comers and sleeping quarters in the nighttime.  Through the grapevine Miguel learned that the free lawyer from the “Church” was […]

By Naim Edwards, Serving with Cap Corps in Detroit   Just this morning, as I was preparing to write this blog, I learned a new term – environmental racism. It is defined by the Energy Justice Network as “the disproportionate impact of environmental hazards on people of color.” I presume most of us consider hazards […]

By Matthew Guiffre, Mercy Volunteer Corps, serving in Guyana South America There is nothing easy about living in Guyana. Navigating the city streets of Georgetown is difficult, household chores need to be done more mindfully than in the United States, and even simple tasks like taking a shower or prepping to go to bed require […]