Johnson Service Corps is an opportunity for young adults (ages 21 – 28) to:
- Experience rigorous personal and spiritual growth
- Directly serve under-resourced people and communities
- Develop a life-long network of professional mentors, spiritual mentors, supportive friends, and colleagues
Johnson Service Corps provides Fellows with:
- A monthly stipend of $813 (about $750 after taxes)
- Housing, utilities, and internet
- A monthly household grocery budget
- Holistic health services and a gym membership
- Retreats, mentorship, trainings
- $1000 completion bonus
Bishop Michael Curry speaks to the value of a year with Episcopal Service Corps:
The program is a 10.5 month full-time, residential experience that begins mid-August and concludes at the end of June. Fellows live in Durham, North Carolina and work in Durham or neighboring cities. Fellows share a house with five other Fellows and learn to live together as a healthy community with diverse identities, values, interests, and experiences.
Each Fellow works 32 hours a week with a nonprofit organization. Fellows learn skills and build a portfolio of experiences that they can include on their resumes as they pursue future jobs. Johnson Service Corps is an opportunity for young adults to explore their personal spiritual values and develop life-long, spirit-nourishing practices. Additionally, fellows spend one day a week collectively reflecting on the experiences of their nonprofit work and communal living, exploring spiritual teachings, and deepening their leadership skills. Every Fellow is matched with a mentor and participates in group and individual therapy.
The 4 pillars of Johnson Service Corps are:
Durham, North Carolina, has been called a progressive beacon of the South. For generations, the community has put racial and economic justice at the top of the civic agenda. It is a city that cherishes robust, respectful debate and has been at the forefront of many movements, including civil rights, LGBTQ rights, restorative justice, and environmental protection.
To find out more about this opportunity to grow personally, professionally and spiritually through a well-supported mix of justice work, leadership training, and intentional community, contact us.
This mural was created in 2013 as a public art project with the input of 30 community members, under the direction of artist Brenda Miller Holmes and Dr. Benjamin Speller of NCCU