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 […]
Service Corps Reflections
Alumni Spotlight – Ann Schindler
I participated in the Johnson Service Corps in 2018-2019. Immediately after completing JSC, I started grad school for my Masters in Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Little did I know that nine months later, with all of my classes online, I would be social distancing and apart from many […]
Alumni Spotlight – Kelsey White
My name is Kelsey White (she/her/hers) and I’m an alum from the 2010-2011 program year. I was raised as a cradle Presbyterian (PCUSA) in a rural South Carolina textile town. I am a graduate of Maryville College in East Tennessee, where I earned a bachelor of arts in Spanish while traveling to Latin America as […]
End of Year Reflections
Due to the effects of the coronavirus pandemic this year we were unable to hold our annual End-of-Year Celebration as we normally would- in the fellowship hall at St. Philip’s Episcopal Church in Durham, with our entire community of mentors, partner organization supervisors, local alum, members of our Board, and other longtime supporters and friends […]
Alumni Spotlight – Jeni Ting
My name is Jeni, and I was member of both the 2016-2017 cohort and the 2017-2018 cohort. Yes, I lived the JSC lifestyle, values, lessons and practices for two years. To say that those two years were transformative is an understatement. The internal and external experiences of JSC for me were comparable to being broken […]
A Message for 2020 College Graduates
Class of 2020, we know that this is not how you imagined your final semester of college. In a better world you would have spent the past couple of months hanging out with friends, celebrating your hard work at graduation ceremonies, and checking those last few items off your college bucket list. We’re sure that […]
Alumni Spotlight – Badria Mryyan
My name is Badria Mryyan, and I am a JSC alum from the 2017-2018 cohort. I found JSC through happenstance– a leap of faith from a random online search before graduation. The thought of having time to think about this big, bold thing that is life and to do so while in community with others […]
Alumni Spotlight – Marsha Hamilton
I became a Johnson Intern in its 2nd year – way way back in 2001-2002 – with a cohort of just four others all looking for a different kind of year for discernment. I had just graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill where I had studied Anthropology and Religious Studies and was really attracted to the social […]
Alumni Spotlight – Anne Dunbar Johnson
Greetings! It has been ten years since my time as a “JIP-ster” with the Johnson Service Corps (then JIP-Johnson Intern Program). I have fond memories of my intentional living adventure with Jessica, Matt, Tricia, Hannes, Amanda, Will and Christy in our home on Elliott Road. Outside of my work placement, that year was filled with family dinners, silent […]
Watty Bowes Society
Last week we held our annual Watty Bowes Society reception. Named after Watty Bowes, a long time supporter of our program, the Society consists of JSC’s leading donors and supporters. During the reception current corps member Reid Russom offered the following reflection on his time in the program thus far. When people ask me what […]