By Christy Titus, Colorado Vincentian Volunteer   I would never have considered myself spiritually poor before I came to CVV.  In lots of ways, I wasn’t—I had grown up in a strong Christian family and had developed a meaningful faith life. I felt like my relationship with God, while not perfect by any means, was […]

 By: Eileen E. O’Brien, former Claretian Volunteer   I arrived at full-time, faith-based service along a route different from most of my colleagues.  Most of my fellow volunteers were right out of  college, where they had earned undergraduate degrees in the liberal arts. I, however, came out of graduate school having earned my Master’s degree […]

By: Meeg Conroy, former volunteer from Passionist Volunteers International “Me blind, but me can still see.” The simplicity of her statement and the coyness of her remark left me thinking. I had only been in Jamaica three weeks at that point, the first two had been a crash course in everything Jamaican, including hurricane season. […]

By: Kristina Swanber, St. Joseph Worker Program,  Catholic Volunteer Network – AmeriCorps   It is no wonder why Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was such an inspiration for generations of people in the United States and worldwide. His words reached many and crossed barriers that commonly were not broken. I was happy to take part […]

By Kate Flannery, Communications Department They met her with bewildered expressions. “You’re taking a year off?” her parents asked their eldest daughter after she told them she would be volunteering for a year after graduation. “I ain’t volunteering nothing. I’m getting a job,” was the reaction of one of her peers. But back in 2001, […]