MissionYear asks it team members to write out a newsletter each month as a way of raising support and connecting with the communities people come from. It creates an opportunity to share stories and reflect on what one is experiencing and learning. Below is the text from my January 2016 newsletter. As many of you, … More when a blizzard hits (january 2016 NL)
MissionYear asks it team members to write out a newsletter each month as a way of raising support and connecting with the communities people come from. It creates an opportunity to share stories and reflect on what one is experiencing and learning. Below is the text from my January 2017 newsletter. With January coming to … More an invitation inward & inside (january 2017 NL)
MissionYear asks it team members to write out a newsletter each month as a way of raising support and connecting with the communities people come from. It creates an opportunity to share stories and reflect on what one is experiencing and learning. Below is the text from my December 2016 newsletter. As any (in my … More banquets, feasts, & parties: celebrating Kingdom Come (december 2016 NL)
MissionYear asks it team members to write out a newsletter each month as a way of raising support and connecting with the communities people come from. It creates an opportunity to share stories and reflect on what one is experiencing and learning. Below is the text from my November 2016 newsletter, following the election of … More in light of recent events… (november 2016 NL)
It has been a little over a year since I first moved into Hunting Park, a predominantly Latinx neighborhood in the northern margins of Philadelphia that I was placed in by a Christian program called MissionYear. As the name would suggest, the program typically lasts one year, running from September to the end of July. … More last year
I left a little after six in the morning, as I had nearly every day this year, to wait for my first bus on my route to work. On that grey Wednesday morning, another man walked up from a few blocks down to wait with me at the stop. This wasn’t typical, and I noticed … More this is what happened.
This is the second half of my reflections on the MissionYear values I have “majored” in during my year. You can read the first one on Neighborhood here. /// JUSTICE. Unlike “Neighborhood,” which is a MissionYear value I had little inclination towards prior to this year, “Justice” was the value that ultimately drew me into … More Values II: justice & faith
A couple months ago, our house’s alum leader went on a retreat for everyone participating in their second year of MissionYear, and when reflecting on it afterwards she shared something that’s changed how I’ve thought about my own year, and the program as a whole. It was a question that Caz, our program director, asked … More Values I: neighborhood (or, thoughts on resurrection)
This time last year was my introduction to Advent, the liturgical church season that leads us into Christmas. Structured to encourage anticipation and expectancy for the coming Emmanuel, it is a time that simultaneously calls the Church to take in the thick darkness around them and cling to the radical hope of the Light to … More an Advent faith
“I call you by name, I name you, through you do not know me. I am the Lord, and there is no other, besides me there is no God; I equip you, though you do not know me that people may know, from the rising of the sun and from the west, that there … More do You?
Prone to Wonder 