Domestic Faith-based Programs

Benefits of service may include:

  • The opportunity to serve others full-time for 1-2 years
  • An environment in which you can grow spiritually
  • The opportunity to live in community with other volunteers
  • The opportunity to live and worth in a place culturally different than your own.
  • Committment to living a simple lifestyle
  • Working for social justice
  • Stipend, room, and board
  • Health insurance
  • Student loan deferment
  • AmeriCorps Education Award

Abundant Table Farm Project
A young adult Christian community seeking a contemporary Benedictine rhythum of life with a land based ministry. The goal of the internship is to form young adult leaders who are attuned to the destructive disconnect between land and table in our culture. Young adults will work for a small scale organic farm and/or intern with a local community organization addressing justice issues facing the community
--- Ventura County, CA

Agape Community
A lay Catholic residential community committed to simple living, sustainability, and nonviolence
--- Central Massachusetts

Amate House
A service program through the Archdiocese of Chicago where young adults live in community houses in the neighborhoods where they serve, spend 40+ hours a week at nonprofits, parishes, and schools in the city, and participate in a formation program that encourages them to understand and explore the link between Christian faith and service
--- Chicago, IL

Episcopal Service Corps
A federation of young adult service programs across the US that help young adults discern the inner "voice" that is calling them to their life's work, and to develop the skills to listen and respond through al ife of service

Episcopal Urban Intern Program
EUIP gathers a new class of young adults to live in Christian community and to work for change by serving in some of Los Angeles County's most innovative and effective social service agencies
--- Los Angeles, CA

Good Shepherd Volunteers
Full-time volunteers have the opportunity to work in social service ministries serving women, adolescents, and children affected by poverty, violence, and neglect
--- Philadelphia, PA and New York City

Haley House Live-In Community
A residential community of four to nine people who - in exchange for managing a variety of Haley House social services - receive free room and board
--- Boston, MA

Jesuit Volunteer Corps
A full-time service program dedicated to serving the poor by integrating Christian faith in the pursuit of justice; volunteers work with people who are homeless, unemployed, refugees, people with aids, the elderly, street youth, abused women and children, the mentally ill and the developmentally disabled
--- 39 cities

Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest
Provides full-time opportunities for young, motivated individuals to reach out to persons living on the margins of society and vulnerabe places throughout the Pacific Northwest
--- Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington

Johnson Intern Program
Blends social ministry, intellectual inquiry, and intentional community into a year that enables young adults to explore their spirtiual lives within the context of servant-leadership
--- Chapel Hill, NC

L'Arche
Enables people with and without disabilities to share their lives in communities of faith and friendship; community members are transformed through relationships of mutuality, respect, and companionship as they live, work, pray, and play together
--- 16 cities in 14 states

Lasallian Volunteers
Provides dedicated, well-trained Volunteers for one or more years of service in schools and agencies of the De La Salle Christian Brothers whose Mission is to serve the poor; sharing community with the Brothers, Lasallian Partners, and other Volunteers provide an intergenerational support structure
--- 18 states

Living on Purpose: NOLA Service Corps
Participants will spend 11 months living together and working with creative programs started in the wake of Hurricane Katrina: rebuilding homes, revitalizing communities, and working with young people. The spiritual formation curriculum exposes Corps membesr to different spiritual practices, and educates through reading books together, journaling, and discussion.

Lutheran Volunteer Corps
Unites full-time stipended Volunteers with non-profit organizations with an emphasis on building community, working for peace with justice, and living simply and sustainably
--- 13 cities in 11 states

Mercy Volunteer Corps
In partnership with the Sisters of Mercy, Volunteers enter into relationship with people who are economically poor or marginalized through a one-year commitment. In a spirit of mutuality, volunteers cultivate mercy and justice in the world by embracing compassionate service, social justice, spirituality and a simple lifestyle in community
--- 23 cities

New Seeds
A residential internship program for young adults in the Episcopal tradition. The interns will live simply and will serve in local social service agencies and centers and develop a rule of life that balances their service work placement with service and prayer in the church, along with fun and fellowship
--- Louisville, KY

NEWARK ACTS
A service-learning program for young adults that will emphasize social justice, community service, spiritual formation, and communal living
--- Newark, NJ

Response Directory
Catholic Volunteer Network is a non-profit membership organization of 200 domestic and international volunteer service programs; this directory is the largest and most comprehensive guide to Catholic and Christian volunteer programs available

Servant Year
Enables young men and women to work full-time for one year within social service agencies to serve the under-served
--- Philadelphia, PA

St. Joseph Worker Program
A one-year volunteer experience for women who are passionate about social change
--- Twin Cities, MN

Urban Servant Corps
A one-year, full-time Lutheran volunteer program involved in ministries serving the inner-city; seeks to fulfill Christ's mission of love demonstrated through action by working for peace with justice, by advocating for and with oppressed persons, and sharing our power and abundance with those most in need
--- Denver, CO