Tag: Episcopal Service Corp

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Episcopal Service Corps – Servant Year

Young adults joining Servant Year commit to a year of volunteer local service, as well as a common rhythm of life, spiritual companionship, and asking big questions.

Spiritual Life

Community life is shaped by a daily round of prayer. Each community has its own regular pattern for this prayer, established at the start of the year. In addition, worship is a central charism of the Servant Year community. As such, Corps members actively participate in the larger worshiping community of nearby Episcopal Churches: Saint Mark’s or St. James School.

For eleven months, Servant Year members form a community within the community of either Saint Mark’s or St. James School, which is larger and more dispersed. It is home to others who live there, and in some ways a home for the people who work, learn, pray, and have fellowship in its broader community. A home is a safe place by definition, and we commit to safeguarding one another’s safety in every reasonable way, primarily by taking responsibility for ourselves and our own actions.

Volunteering

Through Servant Year, corps members embody the idea that Christian service begins with the recognition that we are called to service through our baptism, locating all work in response to the echoing command of Jesus to his disciples to “go” and do something! Servant Year members serve either at St. James School or St. Mark’s Church, according to their gifts discerned during the interview process.

Servant Year members receive housing at either St. James School or St. Mark’s Church, in individual rooms. Members also receive a $600 monthly stipend, and are encouraged to participate in a retirement savings plan in which the program matches member contributions up to $1,100. Members receive health insurance with no charge to themselves, and the program covers all co-pays for care. A $5,000 education award to help with student loans or continued education after the program is available to all members. The program also covers travel costs for arrival and departure for the year of service and one trip during the service year. The program also supplies each member with a $500 clothing allowance at the beginning of the year. 

Applications for the 2024-2025 Corps will open December 1, 2023. Visit ESC’s website to learn more about Servant Year or to take the ESC Discernment Quiz, EpiscopalServiceCorps.org.

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© 2023 The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. All rights reserved.

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This weekly bulletin insert provides information about the history, music, liturgy, mission, and ministry of The Episcopal Church. For more information, please contact us at stw@episcopalchurch.org.

Sermons That Work

For more than 20 years, Sermons That Work, a ministry of The Episcopal Church’s Office of Communication, has provided free sermons, Bible studies, bulletin inserts, and other resources that speak to congregations across the Church. Our writers and readers come from numerous and varied backgrounds, and the resources we provide are used in small house churches, sprawling cathedrals, and everything between.

Church of the Redeemer

Church of the Redeemer: Worshiping God, living in community, and reaching out to the world around us. We are an Episcopal Church serving north King County and south Snohomish County, Washington. As you travel your road, go with friends walking the way of Jesus at Redeemer.

Church of the Redeemer is at 6220 Northeast 181st Street in Kenmore, Washington. The campus is a short distance north of Bothell Way, near the Burke-Gilman Trail. The entrance looks like a gravel driveway. The campus is larger on the inside than it is on the outside. And we managed to hide a large building on the side of a hill that is not easily seen from the street.

The Episcopal Church welcomes you.

This is the weekly bulletin insert from Sermons That Work.

Episcopal Service Corps – Wyoming Service Corps

Through Wyoming Service Corps, an Episcopal Service Corps (ESC) program in Cody, Wyoming, young adults share a contemplative environment to discern their greater place in the world and explore the natural and social world around them.

Service

Corps members serve 32 hours a week at a variety of community organizations in the area. Because we are a small community in which nonprofit organizations have limited funds to pay staff, a corps member may serve part time at multiple sites.

The volunteer site placements are oriented to social and environmental justice as well as social welfare, providing opportunities for the growth of each participant vocationally, personally, and spiritually.

Community at Wyoming Service Corps

Wyoming Service Corps members call Thomas the Apostle Center (TAC) home. TAC is a spiritual retreat center that provides communal living space complete with a chapel, labyrinth, and a Stations of the Cross/prayer walk up Dinosaur Ridge, against which TAC is built. This sacred space has served as a place of healing, rejuvenation, and growth for thousands over the years.

Corps members share rooms, a kitchen, dining area as well as common areas for meeting, gathering, and play. The entire campus was originally built by an artist, and there is a small gallery in the Studio House as well. One of the rooms is handicapped accessible.

Corps members receive the following:

• Health insurance
• Subsidized therapy
• Spiritual direction
• Mentoring
• Housing
• Internet
• Utilities
• A $250 a month personal stipend
• $900 collective food monies
• $400 collective transportation monies

Spiritual Life for the Wyoming Service Corps

It is in looking after others that we find our best selves. Where do we fit in this world? What is a task that we can undertake that will help us bring our world closer to the kingdom of God on earth? Through On Sacred Ground’s 10-month program, corps members explore these questions and more through the following:

• Spiritual direction
• Daily and weekly devotions
• Worship
• Discernment
• Time spent in personal reflection in Cody and in the greater region of Wyoming’s natural beauty

How to apply for the Wyoming Service Corps

Applications for the 2024-2025 Corps will open December 1, 2023. Visit ESC’s website to learn more about On Sacred Ground – Wyoming Service Corps or to take the ESC Discernment Quiz, EpiscopalServiceCorps.org.

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Published by the Office of Formation of The Episcopal Church, 815 Second Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10017

© 2023 The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. All rights reserved.

Weekly bulletin inserts

This weekly bulletin insert provides information about the history, music, liturgy, mission, and ministry of The Episcopal Church. For more information, please contact us at stw@episcopalchurch.org.

Sermons That Work

For more than 20 years, Sermons That Work, a ministry of The Episcopal Church’s Office of Communication, has provided free sermons, Bible studies, bulletin inserts, and other resources that speak to congregations across the Church. Our writers and readers come from numerous and varied backgrounds, and the resources we provide are used in small house churches, sprawling cathedrals, and everything between.

Church of the Redeemer

Church of the Redeemer: Worshiping God, living in community, and reaching out to the world around us. We are an Episcopal Church serving north King County and south Snohomish County, Washington. As you travel your road, go with friends walking the way of Jesus at Redeemer.

Church of the Redeemer is at 6220 Northeast 181st Street in Kenmore, Washington. The campus is a short distance north of Bothell Way, near the Burke-Gilman Trail. The entrance looks like a gravel driveway. The campus is larger on the inside than it is on the outside. And we managed to hide a large building on the side of a hill that is not easily seen from the street.

The Episcopal Church welcomes you.

This is the weekly bulletin insert from Sermons That Work.

Episcopal Service Corps – Jubilee Year

Jubilee Year is an award-winning program providing a personally and professionally transformative service year to raise up a new generation of change makers for the world.

Spiritual Life at Jubilee Year

While Jubilee Year is rooted in the Christian tradition and continues to honor our Episcopal values, JYLA is intentionally committed to forming and fostering an interreligious community. Fellows come from diverse religious backgrounds – or none at all.

A year of service with Jubilee Year offers an opportunity for fellows to dig deep into their spiritual understandings and mindfully examine social issues that matter in order to reflect and grow. The fellows do this through the following:

• A justice-centered frame
• Care-filled mentorship
• Structured dialogue
• Respect for needed independence
• Consistent guidance by our committed leadership team

Volunteering

Jubilee Year fellows serve full-time with community-minded organizations who can expand their capacity for change-making by teaming up with JYLA. More than interns, fellows are key team members who are empowered with leadership opportunities. They are given the ability to learn from the experience and passion of their service site while having chances to enhance the work of their partner agencies by doing the following:

• Create
• Innovate
• Use their own skills

Life in the Jubilee Year Los Angeles community

Alongside the commitment to service, JYLA fellows live, learn, and play together in affirming, supportive, growth-centered intentional community. Fellows share meals and engage spiritual and shared learning practice at least once per week. They are matched with mentors who will walk alongside and support them and fellows engage regular conversation and curriculum with JYLA staff to supplement and enrich experiential growth.

In addition to a monthly stipend to cover expenses, Jubilee Year provides fellows with this:

• Free, furnished housing
• Coverage of all utilities, including cable and internet
• A $600/month stipend
• A monthly community fund of $50/fellow
• Annual Metro Pass (public transit)
• Esurance all of our corps members have coverage

Beyond financial benefits, JYLA provides fellows with the following:

• Mentorship
• Monthly group dialogue sessions
• Quarterly retreats
• Professional development
• Extensive access to and interaction with our social and professional network built up over the course of over 25 years serving in Los Angeles

How to apply for Jubilee Year

Applications for the 2024-2025 Corps will open December 1, 2023. Visit ESC’s website to learn more about Jubilee Year Los Angeles or to take the ESC Discernment Quiz at EpiscopalServiceCorps.org.

Published by the Office of Formation of The Episcopal Church, 815 Second Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10017

© 2023 The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. All rights reserved.

Weekly bulletin inserts

This weekly bulletin insert provides information about the history, music, liturgy, mission, and ministry of The Episcopal Church. For more information, please contact us at stw@episcopalchurch.org.

Sermons That Work

For more than 20 years, Sermons That Work, a ministry of The Episcopal Church’s Office of Communication, has provided free sermons, Bible studies, bulletin inserts, and other resources that speak to congregations across the Church. Our writers and readers come from numerous and varied backgrounds, and the resources we provide are used in small house churches, sprawling cathedrals, and everything between.

Church of the Redeemer

Church of the Redeemer: Worshiping God, living in community, and reaching out to the world around us. We are an Episcopal Church serving north King County and south Snohomish County, Washington. As you travel your road, go with friends walking the way of Jesus at Redeemer.

Church of the Redeemer is at 6220 Northeast 181st Street in Kenmore, Washington. The campus is a short distance north of Bothell Way, near the Burke-Gilman Trail. The entrance looks like a gravel driveway. The campus is larger on the inside than it is on the outside. And we managed to hide a large building on the side of a hill that is not easily seen from the street.

The Episcopal Church welcomes you.

This is the weekly bulletin insert from Sermons That Work.

Episcopal Service Corps – Johnson Service Corps

Johnson Service Corps is a diverse, ecumenical community of young adults ages 21 to 28 dedicated to service and social justice in Chapel Hill and Durham, North Carolina.

A year in the Johnson Service Corps (JSC) is an opportunity to grow personally, professionally, and spiritually through a well-supported mix of justice work, leadership training, spiritual practice, and living in intentional community in Durham.

What the participants do

JSC internship placements involve 32 hours a week serving through economic, environmental, and racial justice-oriented nonprofits. These placements offer experience in areas like

• Policy development and implementation
• Direct service to marginalized women and families or the homeless
• Rural agriculture cooperatives

Types of service include:

• Addiction and recovery support
• Arts
• Congregation-based ministry
• Community organizing
• Education
• Employment services
• Conservation
• Disability services
• Food justice
• Healthcare
• Homelessness
• Housing insecurity
• Immigrant/refugee services
• Legal services
• LGBTQIA+ support
• Racial reconciliation
• Special education
• Violence prevention
• Women’s empowerment
• Youth-based services
• Public policy/advocacy

Life as part of the Johnson Service Corps

Corps members live in a house with four to six other young adults: sharing space, cooking, cleaning, praying, and learning to navigate conflict. Corps members participate in weekly leadership training and in a faith community of their choice. All corps members are supported with a network of relationships that includes peers, mentors, therapists, and other partners.

The JSC community welcomes people of all spiritual traditions and those who are new to exploring spirituality. Every corps member is encouraged to adopt a daily personal practice and to adapt it over the course of the year. Popular practices have included book studies, music, yoga, and a wide variety of prayer. The corps may also participate in the wide variety of faith expressions in the Durham-area, including Buddhist temples, a local farm church, and a synagogue, along with more mainline Christian congregations.

Corps members serving through JSC arrive in mid-August and commit to participation through June of the following year. JSC provides the following:

• Housing
• Utilities
• Food stipend
• Health insurance
• Group counseling
• Quarterly retreats
• Mentorship
• $500 monthly stipend
• $1000 completion bonus

How to apply for the Johnson Service Corps

Applications for the 2024-2025 Corps will open December 1. 2023. Visit ESC’s website to learn more about Johnson Service Corps or to take the ESC Discernment Quiz at EpiscopalServiceCorps.org.

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Published by the Office of Formation of The Episcopal Church, 815 Second Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10017

© 2023 The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. All rights reserved.

Weekly bulletin inserts

This weekly bulletin insert provides information about the history, music, liturgy, mission, and ministry of The Episcopal Church. For more information, please contact us at stw@episcopalchurch.org.

Sermons That Work

For more than 20 years, Sermons That Work, a ministry of The Episcopal Church’s Office of Communication, has provided free sermons, Bible studies, bulletin inserts, and other resources that speak to congregations across the Church. Our writers and readers come from numerous and varied backgrounds, and the resources we provide are used in small house churches, sprawling cathedrals, and everything between.

Church of the Redeemer

Church of the Redeemer: Worshiping God, living in community, and reaching out to the world around us. We are an Episcopal Church serving north King County and south Snohomish County, Washington. As you travel your road, go with friends walking the way of Jesus at Redeemer.

Church of the Redeemer is at 6220 Northeast 181st Street in Kenmore, Washington. The campus is a short distance north of Bothell Way, near the Burke-Gilman Trail. The entrance looks like a gravel driveway. The campus is larger on the inside than it is on the outside. And we managed to hide a large building on the side of a hill that is not easily seen from the street.

The Episcopal Church welcomes you.

This is the weekly bulletin insert from Sermons That Work.

Episcopal Service Corps Program Spotlight: Plainsong Farm & Ministry 

Plainsong Farm & Ministry is an Episcopal Service Corps program in Rockford, Michigan, dedicated to cultivating connections among people, places, and God. By making a place that nurtures belonging and the radical renewal of God’s world, Plainsong Farm is a living laboratory where fellows can experiment with how to pray, belong, grow, rest, serve, and play.

Plainsong Farm is currently recruiting Corps members between the ages of 21 and 32 for its 2023-2024 program year. Over nine months, Plainsong Fellows will experience the following:

• A balanced life of prayer, feasts, play, rest, study, conversation, retreats, and work
• Immersion in regenerative agriculture and conservation practices for health and healing of all creation
• Weekly evening formation gatherings which include cooking farm-fresh meals, Christian scripture, hands-on activities, contextual analysis of power, possession, people, and place, both in history and today, and doing the dishes
• Conflict resolution coaching
• Monthly field trips
• Life in community with one another and the various intergenerational communities of Plainsong Farm
• Lots of cucumbers and embodied practice

Dates of service: 
January 14, 2024 to November 1, 2024

Weekly commitment: 
32 work hours per week, 8 formation hours per week

Compensation: 

• $425 monthly stipend
• Housing on the farm
• Utilities
• End-of-service award
• Health insurance
• Spiritual direction
• Seasonal vegetables

This leads to a total estimated value of $12,000.

About Episcopal Service Corps

Now in its 23^rd year, Episcopal Service Corps (ESC) is built on the belief that change happens when we bring together diverse teams of committed and passionate young leaders ages 21-32 and support them as they tackle some of our nation’s most difficult challenges.

Find out more about Plainsong Farm.

Learn about Episcopal Service Corps.

Apply today at https://episcopalservicecorps.org/apply/.

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Published by the Office of Formation of The Episcopal Church, 815 Second Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10017

© 2023 The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. All rights reserved.

Weekly bulletin inserts

This weekly bulletin insert provides information about the history, music, liturgy, mission, and ministry of The Episcopal Church. For more information, please contact us at stw@episcopalchurch.org.

Sermons That Work

For more than 20 years, Sermons That Work, a ministry of The Episcopal Church’s Office of Communication, has provided free sermons, Bible studies, bulletin inserts, and other resources that speak to congregations across the Church. Our writers and readers come from numerous and varied backgrounds, and the resources we provide are used in small house churches, sprawling cathedrals, and everything between.

Church of the Redeemer

Church of the Redeemer: Worshiping God, living in community, and reaching out to the world around us. We are an Episcopal Church serving north King County and south Snohomish County, Washington. As you travel your road, go with friends walking the way of Jesus at Redeemer.

Church of the Redeemer is at 6220 Northeast 181st Street in Kenmore, Washington. The campus is a short distance north of Bothell Way, near the Burke-Gilman Trail. The entrance looks like a gravel driveway. The campus is larger on the inside than it is on the outside. And we managed to hide a large building on the side of a hill that is not easily seen from the street.

The Episcopal Church welcomes you.

This is the weekly bulletin insert from Sermons That Work.

Episcopal Service Corps: Empowering Young Leaders for Justice

For more than 20 years, Episcopal Service Corps (ESC) has been built on the belief that change happens when we bring together diverse teams of committed and passionate young leaders and support them as they tackle some of our nation’s most difficult challenges.

ESC empowers young adults, ages 21-32, to transform themselves and the unjust structures that surround us all through community building, local collaboration, prayer, and action.

Joining Episcopal Service Corps means joining a community of people who care about each person as an individual. We invest in knowing each member’s hopes, dreams, challenges, and giftedness, and are dedicated to creating spaces of belonging where each person is accepted for their authentic self.

What to Expect

Community-building: Community is at the heart of ESC. It means commiting to coming together regularly to eat, pray, laugh, cry, and practice the type of reconciliation and forgiveness that only happens when we live in proximity.

Spiritual and Vocational Discernment: Every program offers formation days to pray, check-in, and discuss topics ranging from theology to vocational planning to social justice.

Justice-Making: Every corps deploys by volunteering through local placement sites for at least 32 hours per week. From farming to immigrant outreach and from ministry to community organizing, these opportunities place members in the heart of the community and offer experiential immersion, focused on honing professional skill development and moving forward social justice initiatives.

In Episcopal Service Corps, we do our very best to ensure our corps have structures behind them for a successful year. To that end, every member receives housing, utilities, health coverage, access to mental health resources, as well as small stipends to cover living expenses, transportation, and food.

The ESC application for the 2023-2024 program year is now open and can be found on our website, EpiscopalServiceCorps.org. Questions? Contact Wendy Johnson at esc@episcopalchurch.org.

Weekly bulletin inserts

This weekly bulletin insert provides information about the history, music, liturgy, mission, and ministry of The Episcopal Church. For more information, please contact us at stw@episcopalchurch.org.

Sermons That Work

For more than 20 years, Sermons That Work, a ministry of The Episcopal Church’s Office of Communication, has provided free sermons, Bible studies, bulletin inserts, and other resources that speak to congregations across the Church. Our writers and readers come from numerous and varied backgrounds, and the resources we provide are used in small house churches, sprawling cathedrals, and everything between.

Church of the Redeemer

Church of the Redeemer: Worshiping God, living in community, and reaching out to the world around us. We are an Episcopal Church serving north King County and south Snohomish County, Washington. As you travel your road, go with friends walking the way of Jesus at Redeemer.

Church of the Redeemer is at 6220 Northeast 181st Street in Kenmore, Washington. The campus is a short distance north of Bothell Way, near the Burke-Gilman Trail. The entrance looks like a gravel driveway. The campus is larger on the inside than it is on the outside. And we managed to hide a large building on the side of a hill that is not easily seen from the street.

The Episcopal Church welcomes you.