My name is Elizabeth Brewington (or Eliz the Woo Brew as I was called during my time at JSC). I served in Johnson Service Corp in 2017-2018 and lived in the Durham house (also known as the Durham Dames). My partner organization was the East Durham Children’s Initiative. During my time at EDCI, I help run their Youth […]
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Our Partners at Uniting NC
Uniting NC works with communities across North Carolina to better support and integrate new immigrants. They help immigrant families hit the ground running in terms of skills and education, so that they can achieve their dreams and give back to their communities. Uniting NC envisions a state and a nation in which all people, including […]
Meet Alisia
Last spring, I was preparing for the career fair at the University of Virginia and I saw that the Episcopal Service Corps would be there. When I arrived, I met Aleta, the Executive Director of the Johnson Service Corps. I was trying to find a gap-year program that would give me time to discern my […]
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 […]
Our Partners at the Chapel of the Cross
The Chapel of the Cross is a vibrant, nurturing, parish where all are welcome. Worship and prayer are at its heart and are essential to the essence of the community’s life and mission both as individuals and as a parish. As an Episcopal Church in the Anglican tradition, the Chapel of the Cross is founded […]
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 […]
Alumni Spotlight — Jack Mitchell
My beginnings with the Johnson internship were marked by a whirlwind application process. I applied for the program almost exactly 18 years ago, just before the beginning of Holy Week 2001, and right at the end of the application period. I ended up writing the application on Palm Sunday. On Monday, I got an email […]
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 […]
Meet Mirka
“Nothing is impossible with God” (Luke 1:37). That’s the motto of my life, before joining JSC and throughout. I graduated in 2017 with a master’s in International Management from Alpen Adria University in Klagenfurt, Austria. I am originally from Slovakia, which is where almost all of my family still lives. As a child, I lived […]
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 […]