IVC Stories
Wrapped in Light
by Robin Cuddy “maybe death isn’t darkness, after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us—" —Mary Oliver In “White Owl Flies Into and Out of the Field,” poet Mary Oliver describes death in precise images drawn from nature—not as an end but as...
Prodigal Sons and Their Safe Haven
by Robin Cuddy The most recent Department of Housing and Urban Development report on homelessness, published in 2015, estimated that about 564,000 homeless people in the United States live in shelters or on the streets. For Jack O’Doherty, an Ignatian volunteer for...
Led Back to the Fold
by Robin Cuddy Hundreds of students at the Genesis Center in Providence, Rhode Island have touched Sandy Yates’s heart. Before becoming an Ignatian volunteer, Sandy had a twenty-eight year career in nursing and cared for sick children in the Intensive Care Unit, the...
Thoughtful, Prayerful Service
by Roberta "Robbie" Sabin This blog post is a presentation made by Ignatian Volunteer Robbie Sabin at IVC Baltimore's Advent Evening of Joyful Anticipation, which we asked her to share with our national IVC community. Good evening, my name is Robbie Sabin. I am an...
New Beginnings in Employment and Retirement
Ellen Stuhlmann helps homeless men and women find and sustain employment as an Ignatian Volunteer at Friendship Place in Washington DC. “It’s been wonderful”, she says of the IVC service experience. She came to IVC after retiring from a career as a publishing...
Lord, Take Me Where I’m Most Needed Today
This blog post from Ignatian Volunteer Marta Sayeed was originally published in IVC Chicago's Footprints blog. For several years, I have volunteered as a chaplain assistant at Stroger (formerly Cook County) Hospital. Earlier this year, it took me longer to decide if...
A New Group of Students for this Professor
Jan Allen retired in January 2015 from a 40-year career as a college English professor, having taught in France, the Netherlands, Illinois, and the Essex campus of the Community College of Baltimore County, Maryland. She wanted to give back to the community and...
Where Did I See God in my Service Ministry?
by Bill Mackey My service work through IVC is tutoring kindergartners in the after school program at Winton Hills Academy. The students and tutors meet three times a week and work with materials and a curriculum developed to help students increase their reading...
“God, what do you want from me today?”
by Katie McGinnity, IVC Intern “Everyday I would go into the high school I would say, ‘God, what do you want from me today?’. I focused on listening and listening and trying to discern what part I played – what God wanted me to do with this school at this time.”...