Service

Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest responds to local community needs in the Pacific Northwest by placing volunteers who provide value-centered service grounded in the Jesuit Catholic tradition.

Honoring the Divine at work in all things, we envision the Northwest as a sustainable region where all live in dignity, are treated justly, and actively contribute to their own empowerment and positive change in their communities.

Over the years, the experience of volunteers and their reflection on that experience have been distilled into four values: community, simple living, social and ecological justice, and spirituality. JVs make a commitment to the JVC Northwest program and to their service placements to strive to live these four interconnected values.

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Our charism is focused on Transforming the World through Reverence. Inspired by the gospel of Jesus and the example of Francis of Assisi, the Capuchin friars of the Province of Saint Joseph, together with our partners in ministry, prayerfully build sister-brotherhood in the world.  We attend simply and directly to the spiritual and other basic human needs, especially those of the poor and disenfranchised, promoting justice for all.

We believe that no matter a person’s position in their family, work, society, we can all be leaders in our own right.  At the bare minimum, we have the ability to decide how to respond to the circumstances in our lives.  We can respond from a place of victim-hood, heroism, and harm creation, or we can respond from a place of servant leadership.  We invite people to step into their own place of power while being conscious of your privilege and making sure that others have space to be servant leaders as well.  We know that we are guests in someone else’s garden and our role there is to lead through example, learning, and change through relationship building and accompaniment.

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Augustinian Volunteers are Catholic men and women who wish to serve God’s people in partnership with the Augustinian Order and others. The service of the volunteers is with established educational, social, and health programs and varies according to the needs of the sponsoring site and the individual volunteer.

The experience of the Augustinian Volunteers is designed to facilitate a person’s desire to serve others. It is also focused on the volunteer’s personal and spiritual development in the Augustinian tradition. By building and living in community with other volunteers and forming relationships with local Augustinian communities, the volunteers' lives are enriched, even as they enrich the lives of others.

In the late 1700's, the first Augustinians came to the United States as missionaries. They established parishes and schools for the growing Catholic immigrant population. In keeping with the spirit of our ancestors, the Augustinians of the Province of Saint Thomas of Villanova continue this tradition of service to God's people at Villanova University, Merrimack College, multiple parishes and high schools, and missions in Japan and Peru. The expanding commitment of the Augustinians is to serve those directly impacted by poverty. Young lay men and women are invited to share this vision and serve through various placements.

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Established in the charism and tradition of St. Paul of the Cross and the Passionist Community, and rooted in the experience of the Passionist volunteers serving among the rural and urban poor in the Eastern United States under the auspices of the Province of St. Paul of the Cross, we are the Passionist Volunteers International.

We extend our service by crossing borders and cultures to walk with the poor and suffering in a spirit of accompaniment.

We respond with our individual and collective skills to the needs that manifest themselves.

We seek this service of accompaniment and response to the crucified of today in union with our Passionist brothers and sisters in their ministries to the suffering in the developing world.

We commit ourselves to personal and communal prayer in order that we might more effectively find inspiration, motivation and strength in the Memory of Jesus crucified and lifted up from the earth to draw all the world to Himself.