Partners for Youth Opportunity (PYO) is a holistic youth serving organization that focuses on long-term relationships with youth in Durham. We start with youth at the age of 14 and continue with them until 4 years after high school. The students we serve must be Durham residents at the time they enter the program and […]
Meet Tirzah
We are almost halfway through this program. My roommate and I both decided to skip church today to have some “me time.” Just a year ago I would have felt guilt, but right now I’m enjoying the french toast I made with the challah bread that Emerson baked last night. I am sitting at the […]
Alumni Spotlight – Rebecca Ogus
My name is Rebecca Ogus and I’m a postulant for Holy Orders in the Diocese of North Carolina, seeking ordination to the priesthood, and second year seminarian at Berkeley Divinity School, the Episcopal seminary at Yale Divinity School. I participated in the Johnson Service Corps after graduating from Kenyon College in 2014 with a degree […]
Alumni Spotlight – Annmarie McCaig Todd
I joined the Johnson Internship Program (as it was called in the beginning) almost 20 years ago. I had been raised in the church and was active in a campus ministry at my college, but living with two other women during the program was my first experience with Christian community out in the world. We […]
Meet Liz
Hey, I’m Liz. Originally from southeast Michigan, I graduated in May from Wellesley College and have spent the past four months settling into my life here in Carrboro. Between my work at Rural Advancement Foundation International, building my intentional community through delicious food and deep conversation, and diving into my spiritual community through Eno River […]
Our Partners at RAFI-USA
The Rural Advancement Foundation International – USA (RAFI-USA) believes in order to ensure a safe, adequate supply of healthy food, we must protect farm workers and encourage environmentally sound farming. We see environmental sustainability, economic viability, biodiversity, and social justice as inextricably linked. Therefore, the best way to ensure a just, sustainable future for farming […]
Our Partners at Anathoth Community Garden
Mission: Anathoth Community Garden & Farm is a non-profit ministry healing divisions between neighbors and the land by growing food together in Cedar Grove, NC. We do this by: Growing and distributing sustainably-raised vegetables through a sliding-scale Community Supported Agriculture program Teaching adult interns agrarian theology and equipping them to heal divisions in their own […]
Meet Aaron
As I dive deeper into farming here at Anathoth Community Garden, I am getting the opportunity to explore the food system in a way that is very much connected to our own humanity and dignity as people. A chance to grow and process the food I consume has placed me in a position to examine […]
Alumni Spotlight – Kelly Sve Erickson
One thing I have realized about my time with JSC is that I continue to learn from the experiences. Looking back, I can see what a privilege this was for me to be able to choose a year for self-growth and reflection. Something that I believe is unique to JSC is the community of people […]
CrossTies at COTC
Corps Member Ann Schindler shares her experience with CrossTies at the Chapel of the Cross: Through great conversations and delicious Southern food, I have loved getting to know other Episcopalians who are also in their 20’s and 30’s. After living in a much bigger city (DC) for three years, it is nice to be able […]