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- In community with former volunteers
- With local people
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- At placement site
Franciscan Mission Service (FMS)
Inspired by the examples of St. Francis and St. Clare, Franciscan Mission Service shares and receives God's unconditional love across borders through a way of life that centers marginalized voices and focuses on living out the Gospel values of intercultural encounter, radical inclusion, authentic humility and transformative justice. FMS believes in the wisdom of local communities and in the fundamental dignity of every individual. FMS has a year-long, nonprofit servant leadership program based in Washington, DC and an international lay mission program in Latin America and the Caribbean. With a posture of humility, our missioners enter as guests into communities as they support locally-run ministries and cultivate mutual relationships based on compassionate presence and accompaniment. Missioners live together and commit to a life rooted in intentional simplicity, reflection, and faith-based justice.
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OVERSEAS LAY MISSION PROGRAM: Current placements are in Bolivia, Jamaica and the US-Mexico Border.// DC SERVICE: Washington, DC.//SHORT-TERM TRIPS: Washington, DC, or Guatemala.
Franciscan Partners Program
The Franciscan Partners Program is a volunteer program administered by the Franciscans of Our Lady of Guadalupe Province in Albuquerque, NM. It is a group of lay people either from the local community or from other areas who are committed to a year or more of service to the poor and marginalized peoples of the geographic area served by the Friars of Our Lady of Guadalupe Province. They come to live with and empower the people with whom they will minister. They come to learn rather than to teach. These men and women share a desire to grow in their knowledge and experience of the Franciscan charism as they respond to a call to minister to others in the spirit of St. Francis of Assisi and thereby assume their rightful place in ministry and leadership roles of their Church. In summary, their purpose is to assist people of the local Church in reaching their full potential, as they take ownership and responsibility in their local Church community.
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The volunteer will serve at one of the locations where the Friars of the Province minister. Currently they are ministering primarily with the Native Americans on the Navajo Reservation in eastern Arizona and the Pueblo tribes of New Mexico. In the past they have also ministered in Juarez, Mexico at a children's shelter and a number of small Hispanic communities in northern New Mexico.
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
Lasallian Volunteers of the De La Salle Christian Brothers
Lasallian Volunteers of the De La Salle Christian Brothers provides dedicated, well-trained Volunteers for one or more years of service to schools and agencies of the Brothers whose Mission is to serve the poor. Acting out of faith, rooted in the Gospel, and sharing community with the Brothers and other Lasallians, the Volunteers empower the poor by personalized service primarily through education. Lasallian Volunteers change the world for the better and discover themselves transformed in the process. More than a third of the volunteers return for additional years of service. To date, more than 775 volunteers have participated in this intense program of faith, community and service. Many of them continue to serve in Lasallian ministries today.
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East Coast, West Coast, Midwest
Maryknoll Lay Missioners
Maryknoll Lay Missioners are individuals, couples and families compelled by faith to engage with people across cultures and ethnicities. Maryknoll lay missioners are brought together by a vision of justice, compassion and dignity for all creation responding to basic needs and promoting active non-violence and healing. We live, love and work with marginalized communities and people in Africa, Asia and the Americas. Based in the rich tradition of Catholic Social Teaching, missioners currently serve in the areas of active non-violence, healthcare, children and adults living with disabilities, sustainable development, environmental justice, migrants/refugees and more. Maryknoll Lay Missioners uphold and are transformed by the values of simple living, community, joy, inclusion, and humility.
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Bolivia, Brazil, Cambodia, El Salvador, Haiti, Kenya-South Sudan, Tanzania, and US-Mexico Border.
Missionary Cenacle Volunteers
To help Catholics and others become missionaries in the providence of daily life by growing spiritually while in service to the poor, abandoned and those at risk of losing their faith.
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Across the continental USA, Puerto Rico and Mexico (for those fluent in Spanish).
Mountain Companion Ministry - Mt. Irenaeus
Our goal is to invite men and women to live as part of a core community with Franciscan friars to further proclaim our Gospel manner of life and ministry to the world. Our community is rooted in the Franciscan tradition. We are committed to simple, joyful healing with God and all creation through contemplation and the communal experience with God's justice, love and peace in contemporary life.
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Mt. Irenaeus is situated on 360 wooded acres in a rural part of Allegany County, NY.
Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ
The mission of the PHJC Volunteer Program is to offer Christian women (men for short immersions and and college groups) unique opportunities in a faith-based context to live out their Baptismal call to share God's presence in the world. Volunteers are inspired by openness to the Spirit, simplicity, community, sustainability, and dignity and respect for all. Our program seeks to meet the needs and interests of both the individual and the ministry served. Volunteers live in intentional community with our Sisters.
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Chicago and Indiana, Mexico, Kenya, Germany and India (by availability)
Precious Blood Volunteers
We want our volunteers to grow in your faith while discerning their life calling through community living and walking with people who are suffering.
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Kansas City, Missouri, Chicago, Illinois
Redeemer Ministry Corps
Redeemer Ministry Corps is a sponsored ministry of the Sisters of the Redeemer whose vision is to render assistance and provide a healing presence to vulnerable populations. RMC volunteers participate in this mission, using their gifts and talents in service to others through ministries in health care, elder care, sustainable farming, education and social service, tending to the needs of those who experience aging, terminal illness, sickness, and poverty in all its forms. Volunteers commit to the program's core values of simple living, intentional community, full-time service and spirituality.
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Urban and suburban Philadelphia
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