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Volunteer opportunities in Catholic Worker communities

Are you looking for a life-changing experience in service to the poor on behalf of social justice? Volunteering at a Catholic Worker community is guaranteed to provide that experience.

While all Catholic Worker communities welcome volunteers to work in many capacities, those listed below are seeking the specific help indicated.

Since Catholic Worker communities vary widely in their specific work and lifestyle, please read any descriptions under contact information before contacting a community

Immediate volunteer opportunities: (listed in reverse alphabetical order)

Winona Catholic Worker - Winona ( MN)

We are seeking live-in community members to share in intentional community and the works of mercy. If you are a light-hearted, compassionate, spiritually grounded person you might enjoy sharing your life with the poor in our small, family style houses of hopsitality. Winona is a small city in southeastern Minnesota, located between the Mississippi River and its bluffs. The scenic beauty of the area helps to strengthen our awareness of rural life and farming issues, while maintaining a global justice perspective. If you are interested, please contact us by phone at 507.454.8094, or email at winonacatholicworker@gmail.com, or by our PO Box 102, Winona, MN 55987.

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Whitman House - Cleveland ( OH)

Currently, we are in need of full time, live in, volunteers. We are also in special need of female volunteers.

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Toronto Catholic Worker - Toronto ( Canada)

We welcome inquiries from those who may be interested in helping out or visiting our community of prayerful struggle and hope in Christ. (Regretfully, at this point we cant consider longer term live-in worker positions for people who are not legally able to work in Canada. Our hospitality house requires income from its workers part-time jobs, to cover expenses.) Looking forward to making connections with you!

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Su Casa Catholic Worker Community - Chicago ( IL)

We have several openings for volunteers.

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St Joseph's House of Hospitality - Rochester ( NY)

Our Catholic Worker House of Hospitality serves a hot meal daily for about 100 people. We provide hospitality year round and winter emergency shelter. We are in need of full time, live-in staff. We can provide room, board and stipend. If interested contact: Brent Waddington at PO Box 31049, 14603 zip code, or call the house: 585-232-3262, email: cathwork@frontiernet.net.

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St Francis Catholic Worker - Spotsylvania ( VA)

For our ministry of hospitality and love coupled with a retreat ministry for the homeless who are longing for a stronger connection to Christ. We seek a couple and a single person approximately between ages 45 and 65 to join our faith community and work with our retreatants. We look for willing hearts to make a long term commitment to engage in all aspects of life here -- from bookkeeping, letter writing, gardening, bed making, retreat direction and faith sharing with our guests, to community prayer and a little laughter.

We take seriously the command, "Come follow me" and because of that we live a faith fulfilled life.

HISTORICALLY SPEAKING

Peter Maurin and Dorothy Day often went on retreats, themselves. Dorothy wrote of her own retreat experiences and urged others to make retreats. "Food for the soul," she called them. Her writing clearly shows she envisioned Catholic Worker retreat houses --"... It is certainly a dream for the future." We are humbled to be part of the lying out of her dream.

Inquiries Welcome. Please contact John or Polly Mahoney, or Pumpkin, our cat, at the above address and phone.

PEACE -- PLEASE PRAY FOR US.

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Shalom Catholic Worker House - Kansas City ( KS)

We are looking for volunteers who would like to join our community for 6 months or longer. Young people are especially encouraged to consider working and living with us. Responsibilities of community members include helping with chores, attending to the needs of our homeless guests, and engaging in peace and justice activities (as much as you are comfortable with). Community members are encouraged to have a part-time job outside of the house. Benefits include getting to know some of the best and most interesting people ever--those who live in our community, those who come to volunteer with us, our homeless guests and our neighbors. Before a commitment is made, we ask those interested to come and spend a week or a weekend with us so we can discern together if a longer commitment seems right. For more information about our house, please visit www.shalomcw.org or call Brad at 913-321-2206.

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Omaha Catholic Worker Community - Omaha ( NE)

We are in great need of 1 or 2 people for full time live-in responsibility. We are looking for people with a pioneering spirit, prayerful attitude and presence. We have just opened the house 9-5-2006 and we are in the process of cleaning and painting and old house and making it beautiful and suitable for our guests, hopefully by October/November of 2006. This is a very exciting possibility of faith in action, enfolding each and everyday toward our goal of serving the poor of God, with lots of extended community support in Omaha, Nebraska.

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Oakland Catholic Worker - Oakland ( CA)

The Oakland Catholic Worker, a hospitality house for Latin American immigrants and refugees, seeks part-time volunteers for direct services, resource development, community organizing, and public education. Spanish language skills preferred but not required.

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Norfolk Catholic Worker - Norfolk ( VA)

Looking for students on break or for full-time live-in volunteers interested in living in community with homeless people at our hospitality house, working on our soup line, prayer and Scripture study, and participating in anti-war activism. Drivers license preferable. Please contact Steve Baggarly.

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Nashville Greenlands - Nashville ( TN)

Occasional openings for long term community members or intern volunteers. Needed as of Summer 2007 - One volunteer/intern to work on Iraq peace advocacy organizing with us and the Nashville Peace and Justice Center. Inquire to Karl Meyer at 615-322-9523 or karlmeyerng@hotmail.com.

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Mustard Seed Community Farm - Ames ( IA)

We would apprecciate helpers from late April to mid October, helping with farm chores and food distribution.

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Maryhouse of Little Canada - Little Canada ( MN)

Consider contacting the Maryhouse community to volunteer your time or to participate in the community life. We are currently in need of a resident housemother.

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Mary Queen of Peace House - Dayton ( OH)

Mentors with relevant industry experience who want to experience God's love in relationship with His homeless ambassadors.  

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Mary House Catholic Worker - Austin ( TX)

Mary House Catholic Worker of Austin (Texas), founded in 1991, is a small Catholic Worker community which offers housing to homeless adults with critical and/or terminal illnesses who have no other resources. Ours is the ONLY free housing available to these people. We live and work in the tradition of the Catholic Worker movement, referring to the Gospel of Jesus, the social teaching of the Catholic community of faith, and the writings and experience of our founders, Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin.

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Los Angeles Catholic Worker Community - Los Angeles ( CA)

Each summer mid-June through early August, the L.A. Catholic Worker extends an invitation to any adult interested in joining us for a period of six weeks during the summer. It is an opportunity to live and work with a gospel-based community, to discern one's vocation, or just simply to deepen one's social justice experience on a first hand basis. By the way, the weather here in Southern California is great too.

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London Catholic Worker - London ( Great Britain)

Dorothy Day Catholic Worker House: We have an average family house in London's east end, nine beds, currently 3 CWs and 6 guests. Help needed with all aspects of our work and mission. Contact us if interested. Catholic Worker Farmhouse: currently a family looking for volunteers and community members. Large Farmhouse on edge of London. Help needed with all aspects of our work and mission. Contact us if interested.

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Loaves & Fishes Catholic Worker - Duluth ( MN)

Volunteers needed: Loaves and Fishes is looking for interns (especially for this summer of 2007) and prospective community members. Interns come for a specified period of time to live in our houses of hospitality and help with our work, while prospective community members come for a period (usually about 3 months) to consider joining us for a year or more.

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Little Flower Catholic Worker Farm - Trevilians ( VA)

The Little Flower community invites folks to come experience a rural, resistance c.w. Living space is evolving. We are looking for folks to help construct living spaces, work in the garden, care for children, create big puppets for rallies and live simply while actively resisting "the empire". Please contact Sue Frankel-Streit at 540-967-5574 with any questions. Come for a visit, stay for the growing season.

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Lighthouse Scranton Catholic Worker - Scranton ( PA)

Contact us for volunteer opportunities.

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Jeannine Coallier Catholic Worker - Saginaw ( MI)

The Jeannine Coallier Catholic Worker in Saginaw, Michigan is seeking energetic people interested in urban organic gardening, hospitality to families and the neighborhood, and peace-building. Come for the summer, come for life! Contact jeanninehouse@yahoo.com

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Haley House - Boston ( MA)

We are currently looking for interns and new community members. Check out our website for details.

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Dorothy Day House CW - Berkeley ( CA)

We need volunteers to prepare and serve breakfast. Shifts begin at 5am and 6:30am Monday through Saturday.

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Columbus Catholic Worker - Columbus ( OH)

We are excited to welcome others as either full or part-time Workers, including those who want to live with us in community. We welcome your input in either developing new ministries or supporting the ones we currently have! Come talk to us!

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Catholic Worker Community of Akron - Akron ( OH)

We are looking for full-time live-in volunteers as well as part-time volunteers.

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Casa Latina Catholic Worker - Louisville ( KY)

Looking for Spanish speaking CW volunteers for our house of hospitality.

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Casa de Clara - San Jose ( CA)

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Bethany House - Rochester ( NY)

We are a Catholic Worker House of Hospitality serving homeless women and children is in need of a full-time, live-in staff person. We offer room, board, health insurance, and a stipend plus, the opportunity to live out the philosophy of Catholic Worker. If interested contact Donna Ecker at 169 St. Bridget's Dr. Rochester, NY 14605 or call (585) 454-4197. E-mail is rbethan1@rochester.rr.com.

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A Simple Life - Bells ( TX)

Is God calling you to assist in the gentle birth of a new Catholic Worker House? Is He calling you to grow food and help others form a new agronomic university? If so, please respond by praying for A Simple Life. This new Catholic worker house is 100 years old located in Bells, Texas on 3 acres.This ministry can presently support only one experienced worker resident who is good at begging or can hold a part-time job. The catholic Worker lifestyle is simple, practicing voluntary poverty, being obedient to conscience(God and gospel), and chaste in christian virtue. The gentle birth of this house requires much labor and multi-tasking abilities of homemaking, gardening and carpentry/building skills.Living space will be evolving with growth. Volunteers are needed at every level and stage of growth.We are begging. Please send monetary gifts.

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