Alumni Reflections and Advice on Post-Grad Service
I have been able to see the face of Christ in my first, third, and fifth grade students everyday. Whenever I walk across campus and pass a student they almost always run up and give me a big hug and ask when we will have class next. (And then they usually ask me if they’ve earned their five good behavior stickers to get a pencil next class—the kids go crazy for pencils).
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Hannah Klein,University of Dayton Alumni ('18) currently serving with Jesuit Volunteers, is at Akoyikoyi School in Chuuk, Micronesia, "I do not wish to be strange to you. I am not here to trample through your village or to prove myself, my country, or my language. I am here to be. "
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This morning, I received an encouragement from a dear friend to "be thankful for a God who keeps us guessing." What a hard thing to be thankful for, when I would much rather tell God what I want and have it appear as if I ordered it off a menu.
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I decided on a year of service for many reasons, one of them being that I don’t know what to do with my life yet. Who does, right? I’m still young, so why not throw caution to the wind, move across the country to a place I have never been, move in with people I have never met, live on a small stipend in one of the most expensive cities, and work in a field I have no experience with?
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Grace Sinopoli has been serving through Sycamore House Service Corps in Harrisburg, PA. Her blog post from March truly demonstrates the Marianist spirit of community.
Read moreTim Fasano volunteered with the Christian Appalachia Project.
Tina Stoltz's first year of volunteering sent her parents into a panic. It sent her deeper into the heart of mercy.