Volunteer Stories

To Encourage and To Challenge

I was passionate about doing a year of service because I wanted to take time to reflect and grow spiritually and emotionally before beginning my graduate education and law career. I also felt strongly that at this point in my life I was called to work at the nonprofit level and prioritize learning and working within public interest law as much as I could while…

Time of Discernment

Katie Rauch FC22 Volunteer

I can trace the start of my journey to FrancisCorps back to my sophomore year of college, when I was in a small faith group composed of myself, two other sophomores, and then like eight seniors! I loved the community there and saw people that I had become close with discern doing a year of…

Let Go and Let God

Laura Youngblood FC22 Volunteer

For someone who loves to plan and make sure everything is planned down to the tiniest details, my entrance into FrancisCorps was anything but. During my junior year of college, one of the campus ministers of our UNC- Chapel Hill Newman Center suggested that I meet with “the director of this gap year program I…

Growing in Faith

Elena Northuis FC22 Volunteer

When I think back to the start of my journey to FrancisCorps, the first thing that comes to mind is absolute terror. In January of 2020 I had just gotten back from a semester abroad in France and had zero clue about what I would be doing after I graduated. I hadn’t taken my GREs,…

Our Stories

Phoebe Lay FC22 Volunteer

How did your FrancisCorps journey begin? In quarantine. Just kidding, that’s just my humor shining through. This blog post is kind of lengthy, as I’ve always found it difficult to concisely recount my story. Consider yourself warned. In the Fall of 2019, I was serving as the Coordinator for a big retreat that semester. I…

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