2019 Response

APPLICATION DEADLINE: Application process must be completed at least six weeks prior to desired arrival date. Arrival dates for yearlong volunteers are: February 1, May 25, August 1, and November 1. Arrival date for the Summer Internship is May 25. Summer Internship runs through August 3. Appalachia Service Project 4523 Bristol Hwy. Johnson City, TN 37601 423-854-8800 hiring@asphome.org w asphome.org F facebook.com/AppServProject GOAL OF PROGRAM: Host volunteers around the country to provide emergency home repair to families in Central Appalachia. In this process, staff will explore the relationship between faith and service while discerning God's call in their life. TYPE OF PLACEMENT: Volunteer management, facilitating home repair, assessing family needs, facility and financial management of the program. AREA OF SERVICE: Central Appalachia - North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky, West Virginia LENGTH OF SERVICE: Long-term: 12 months - May to May. Short- term: 11 weeks - End of May to early August REQUIREMENTS: 18 years old, CPR certified, and drivers license. Desire to serve volunteers, homeowners, staff and God. FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENTS: Long-term: $11,000 - Health insurance (if you don't have it). Short-term: $4,000. Both: Housing, transportation and food. LIVING ARRANGEMENTS: Long-term: Apartment at an ASP facility with a private room, shared living space and bathrooms. Short-term: Shared living arrangement, cot or air mattress SIZE OF PROGRAM: Long-term: Total - 15. Short-Term: 140. Both have 4 per location. TRAINING: Construction project management with basic tools and skills, conflict resolution, cultural sensitivity, basic vehicle maintenance, and position training. Assumption Mission Associates 16 Vineyard St. Worcester, MA 01603 508-767-1356 directorassumption@gmail.com w assumptionvolunteers.org F facebook.com/Assumption-Mission-Associates- AMA-234330867775 L @AMAssumptionUSA CONTACT: Sandy Piwko, Director AFFILIATIONS: Religious of the Assumption, Roman Catholic GOAL OF PROGRAM: Provide an opportunity for men and women to live in the spirit of community, faith, solidarity, and service through a one to two-year commitment to the poor and marginalized. St. Marie Eugenie, foundress of the Religious of the Assumption, invites us to experience this work for the common good: "Love never remains idle: it makes us creative and impels us to heed all the appeals of the world and to find new ways of answering them." With that in mind, our ministry sites focus on the needs of the immigrant community and our ecological efforts to be protectors of the environment. The mission L @AppServProject  @AppServProject CONTACT: Hiring ProgramManager

and may choose to attend Spanish school (at own expense) prior to or following volunteer period. Short-term Program: Volunteers receive orientation and supervision. APPLICATION DEADLINE: Long-term program: July start - Priority deadline February 1, secondary deadline March 15; applications accepted on a rolling basis until June 1. February start - Priority deadline July 15, secondary deadline September 1; applications accepted on a rolling basis until November 15. Summer program: Priority applications are due by February 1, continued applications accepted on a rolling basis through June 1. Short-term program: Dependent upon planned trips. Annunciation House 815 Myrtle Ave. El Paso, TX 79901 915-533-4675 volunteercoordinator@annunciationhouse.org w annunciationhouse.org F facebook.com/AnnunciationHouse L @AHouseElPaso CONTACT: Ruben Garcia, Director AFFILIATIONS: Catholic GOAL OF PROGRAM: To provide an experience of service, accompaniment and solidarity with the poor in this border community of El Paso, Texas and Juarez, Mexico. The work has as its primary focus responding to the undocumented, immigrants, and refugees. The ministry of Annunciation House consists in the sharing of one's life through the operation of several houses of hospitality; advocacy on behalf of the poor in migration; and awareness and immersion experiences. The hospitality offered in two large houses includes everything from food, shelter, clothing and social needs, to networking with immigration asylum counselors and lawyers. Annunciation House is an independent effort sustained by individual contributions and donations, and by an all-volunteer staff. For the volunteers, service at Annunciation House is a way of being and living at a particular time in one's life. The work is your life and the living is your work. It is important for volunteers to realize that there must be an openness to doing whatever there is to be done and serving wherever one is needed. TYPE OF PLACEMENT: Hospitality shelter staff, social services, work with Latinos (especially people fromMexico and some Central and South Americans), immigration/refugee services, basic health care, border education and research, office and computer work, accounting and bookkeeping, building maintenance and construction trades. AREA OF SERVICE: El Paso, TX LENGTH OF SERVICE: One year or longer. Shorter term and special skills (e.g. research interns, construction trades, building maintenance, computer, accounting, etc.) volunteer requests handled on a case-by- case basis. Summer: 10-week program available. REQUIREMENTS: Men and women. Single or married without dependents. Open to prayer and spiritual reflection. Ages 20 years and older. Application, references, background check, physical examination and phone interview. College education and Spanish extremely helpful. FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENTS: Room and board are provided. Health and accident insurance for year-long volunteers. Short-term volunteers must provide their own health insurance. Transportation allowance after one complete year of service. LIVING ARRANGEMENTS: Volunteers live in the houses of hospitality in their own room or with a roommate. SIZE OF PROGRAM: Varies TRAINING: An initial two-week-long orientation is given on-site, as well as ongoing and in-service training. Volunteers meet regularly for staff meetings, prayer and reflection. There are also periodic gatherings for discussion, education and recreation.

14 RESPONSE 2019 | A DIRECTORY OF FAITH-BASED VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES