“Community is a journey in and of itself, and that may be one of the greatest and most challenging calls of our lives.” -Kaitlin Curtice Learning to live in community is one of the more challenging things we ask our corps members to do every year. Of course, there are a lot of reasons why […]
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Alumni Spotlight — The Rev. Erica Long
I served with JSC in 2012-2013. During my time with JSC (JIP then!) I worked at the women’s halfway house at Freedom House Recovery Center. After my time with JSC, I pursued my dream to become a healthcare chaplain. I attended Harvard Divinity School and graduated with my master of divinity in 2016. During my […]
Meet Zack
Two years ago if you had asked me where I was going to be today, I would have told you I would be a police officer, patrolling my community in order to make it a better place. Then I had a change of heart. A year ago if you had asked me where I was […]
Our Partners at Club Nova
Club Nova Community Inc. was founded in 1987 to address the needs of Orange and surrounding counties’ citizens living with mental illness, providing a holistic, caring environment designed to promote rehabilitation and reintegration into the community. The Four Guaranteed Rights our members have are: the right to a place to come, the right to meaningful […]
Alumni Spotlight — Jessi Wightman
After serving with JSC for 2015-16, I’m actually working on my third service year! I live in Minneapolis and I am serving as an AmeriCorps volunteer in a middle school. My focus is to support students learning English as a secondary language in their content classes. The middle schoolers make me laugh every day, 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 […]
Commissioning at Diocesan Convention
On Friday, November 16, the Corps Members were commissioned as part of the 203rd Annual Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina. As part of the commissioning, the Rt. Rev. Anne Hodges-Copple asked the Corps Members: “…Will you devote yourselves to loving your neighbors, caring for one another in mind, body, and spirit, seeking […]
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 […]
Meet Badria
Hi! My name is Badria Mryyan, and I’m a Corps Member with the 2018 class of Johnson Service Corps. I’m originally from Arkansas, where I attended college as political science major at the University of the Ozarks. As I write this, we have already entered our tenth month as a corps. Time has really flown […]