Quaker Voluntary Service is an 11-month experiment, living at the intersection of transformational spirituality and activism. Young adults work full-time in professional positions at community based organizations addressing a wide range of issues, while living in a cooperative house and worshiping with, and being mentored by, local Quakers. Fellows receive housing, transportation, food, support for health and wellness (including access to health insurance if needed), and a small stipend, while engaging in regular self-led workshops and retreats that allow for continuing education in social justice, faith, and community building topics.

QVS is a national organization based in the Quaker faith tradition and modeled on other faith based volunteer programs such as Lutheran Volunteer Corps, Mission Year, and Jesuit Volunteer Corps. The purpose of QVS is to provide opportunities for young adults to spend a year living in an intentional community with other young adults and to directly serve the marginalized people through full-time volunteer positions with nonprofit agencies, actively seeking to transform unjust social structures. QVS currently has houses of service in Atlanta, Boston, Philadelphia, Portland, and will be opening our fifth house this coming fall in Minneapolis.

It very much is a year of intentional living and vocational discernment, with other folks who are asking those same questions of: "How do we transition/catalyze our education and passion into meaningful work and social change?" and "What does community look like outside of a this formal institutional/educational structure; what gifts do I have to bring to community?."

Come meet representatives from QVS at their Info Table, in the Library Lobby on Tuesday Nov. 13th, from 11-2:30. There will be a lunch session as well, in the Merrill Living Room, from 12-1, with pizza provided by Spiritual Life.