Well well well, so you’ve decided to drop by my little blog post. Goody goody! Take a seat, put up your feet, rest your human meat. I’m Emlyn, as you know, but I think introductions are nice even if they’re repetitive. Plus my name is fun and quirky so I like to say it as […]
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Meet Tiffany
3,000 miles. That is the amount I have driven since leaving my home in Waterloo, Iowa. I never expected taking a risk to travel and move so far away would allow me to still do things I love. I studied biochemistry and work at Durham Children’s Initiative. It doesn’t make much sense for me to […]
Feast of the Holy Name Sermon
The following sermon was preached by current corps member Ben Miller at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church (Englewood, NJ) on January 1, 2021. The primary text was Colossians 2:6-12. It’s not just New Year’s Day (Happy New Year, by the way!) Today the wisdom of the Church appoints the Feast of the Holy Name, one of […]
Alumni Spotlight – Mirka
My name is Mirka and I’m an alum of JSC year 2018-2019. I come from a small country in central Europe – Slovakia. I did part of my Master studies in International Business at the UNC Greensboro and was glad to return to NC again. The JSC year brought many new experiences and learning about […]
Reflections on Servant Leadership – Alli Little
While corps members spend their days Monday through Thursday volunteering at one of our partner organizations, on Fridays we gather (virtually for now) for faith formation. In the fall we use this time for a course in servant leadership. For us, servant leadership means finding a balance between life’s inward journey and outward journey. The […]
Thank You
Thank you. At JSC we have so much to be grateful for and your continued support throughout this challenging year is at the top of the list. You supported our last cohort of wonderful servant leaders as they completed our program and entered the workforce in the midst of an economic recession. You supported our […]
Alumni Spotlight – Aaron Williams
My name is Aaron Williams (He/Him/His) and I am an alum from the 2018-2019 service year. I graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with a Bachelors in Peace, War and Defense; originally thinking that I would want to be a Foreign Service Officer for the State Dept. Life had a different plan for me. As a JSC […]
Reflections on Servant Leadership – Aidan Owen
While corps members spend their days Monday through Thursday volunteering at one of our partner organizations, on Fridays we gather (virtually for now) for faith formation. In the fall we use this time for a course in servant leadership. For us, servant leadership means finding a balance between life’s inward journey and outward journey. The […]
Our Partners at the Compass Center
Domestic violence has risen worldwide due to COVID-19.[1] Domestic violence is a pattern of intentionally violent or controlling behavior used by a person against a family member or intimate partner to gain and maintain power and control over that person, during and/or after the relationship. The Compass Center for Women and Families is working to […]
Meet Abbey
Damn. What a year. If you told me at the beginning of 2020 that we would be living in a global pandemic, murder hornets would invade the continental United States, and an old, white man would be elected to the Presidency – ok, that last one isn’t all that surprising – I would have looked […]