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Afrique Quest
To utilize my God's given talent by preaching the Gospel and making a Godly friendship
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Any areas
Aid for Women
Aid for Women helps thousands of women each year in the Chicago metropolitan area who find themselves facing unexpected pregnancies. Each woman is provided with the emotional, practical and spiritual support that she needs to choose life for her unborn baby and to provide a better future for her and her child.
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Chicago, Cicero, Des Plaines, Flossmoor, Waukegan, Wheeling, Rockford, Carbondale Illinois.
Annunciation House
To provide an experience of service, accompaniment and solidarity with the poor in the border communities of El Paso, Texas and Juarez, Mexico. The work is focused to responding to the undocumented, immigrants, and refugees. The ministry consists in the sharing of one's life through the operation of several houses of hospitality; advocacy on behalf of the poor in migration; and awareness and immersion experiences. The hospitality offered in several large houses includes everything from food, shelter, clothing and social needs to networking with immigration asylum counselors and lawyers. Annunciation House is sustained by individual contributions and donations, and by an all-volunteer staff. For the volunteers, service at Annunciation House is a way of being and living at a particular time in one's life. The work is your life and the living is your work. It is important for volunteers to realize that there must be an openness to doing whatever there is to be done and serving wherever one is needed.
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El Paso, TX and Juarez, Mexico
Bethlehem Farm
Bethlehem Farm is a Catholic community in Appalachia that transforms lives through service with the local community and the teaching of sustainable practices. We invite volunteers to join us in living the Gospel cornerstones of service, prayer, simplicity, and community.
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Summers County, West Virginia and surrounding counties. Appalachia.
Casa Juan Diego
Volunteers, both men and women, work with immigrants and refugees to provide shelter, food, transportation, medical and dental services, and English classes. Being at Casa Juan Diego is similar to being in Latin America. Most guests speak only Spanish, although refugees from other countries are received as well. Volunteers are encouraged to respond as a community to the needs of the refugees that come to Casa Juan Diego as well as the undocumented who live in Houston. The work is gratifying. The day begins with daily readings and we have weekly clarification of thought meetings and Mass.
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Houston, TX
Center for FaithJustice
At the Center for FaithJustice our mission is to inspire the next generation of leaders by creating programs that educate for justice in the Catholic tradition. Our programs, LeaderworX and the FaithJustice Fellowship, are rooted in the passage, "Faith without works is dead" (James 2:26). They strive to bring together faith and works. LeaderworX is a summer of service offering an integrated experience of prayer, active service, communal living, social justice education, ministry training, and leadership development. The Fellowship is a year of service opportunity that offers fellows a full time work placement with a faith-based non-profit in Central New Jersey, along with spiritual direction and professional development all while living in intentional community. Both programs allow participants to thoughtfully discern their vocation.
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For LeaderworX: New Jersey, Philadelphia, and West Virginia. For the Fellowship: Trenton, NJ.
Christian Appalachian Project
Based in Eastern Kentucky, Christian Appalachian Project (CAP) strives to meet both the immediate needs of persons living in poverty and empower residents to achieve long-term goals. CAP serves people in need (children, the elderly, and persons with disabilities) in Eastern Kentucky. CAP Volunteers commit to the pillars of Service, Community, and Spirituality and/or personal reflection. CAP offers a strong cultural experience, an assortment of service placements, an interdenominational Christian environment, and a flexible time commitment.
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Appalachian region of Eastern Kentucky.
Encuentro Volunteer Program
Encuentro Volunteer Program provides service opportunities for single women seeking to put their time and talents to the service of others in marginalized and disadvantaged communities. In the spirit of the Missionary Guadalupanas of the Holy Spirit, the program embraces and promotes the culture of encounter while seeking to build right relationships through service, community life, and spirituality. Through their work in diverse service projects in the areas of evangelization and human promotion, volunteers contribute to more just living conditions for the poor while gaining valuable experience in faith based service.
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Long term: Birmingham, Alabama and Eutaw, Alabama; Los Angeles, California; Short term: La Descubierta, Independencia, Dominican Republic; Alabama, and California
Glenmary Volunteer Program
The Glenmary Volunteer program at Joppa Mountain, Tennessee is a retreat-like, mission immersion program for high school, college-age and adult volunteer groups to experience the mission and ministry of the Glenmary Home Missioners. Our mission is to give participants a firsthand experience of missionary service. Each week-long session is a retreat-like mission immersion blending the values of service, culture, prayer, reflection and sharing in an environment of simple living. It is the goal of the program to connect people with God, help them find Christ in others, and teach them to serve others first and put themselves second. Glenmary's long-term volunteers act as a catalyst to volunteer groups serving with Glenmary's Group Volunteer Program on Joppa Mountain and to those living in Tennessee's Grainger and Union counties. They not only help serve the needs of the materially needy living in these counties, but also the needs of the volunteers serving at Joppa Mountain.
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Grainger and Union Counties in Tennessee
Holy Spirit Lay Missionary Program
The goal of the Holy Spirit Lay Missionary Program is to invite lay persons to discover, utilize and affirm their gifts and skills while reaching out to and serving people in need according to the charism of the Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit and nurtured by their spirituality.
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Chicago Metropolitan Area
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