Tucson

Program or Partner
Tucson Borderlands Young Adult Volunteer Site

Program Description

The Shower Program is just one way YAVs help immigrants at the Tucson site. Photo from the NVO archives.The Tucson Borderlands site offers an opportunity to experience and explore the call of the gospel in the social and political realities of the U.S./Mexico border region. Our placements serve the program needs of churches.

Placement Opportunities

• Borderlinks: Volunteers serve as “trip” leaders, facilitating educational immersion experiences of the border region in the United States.
• Southside Presbyterian Church: Volunteers are invited to explore a wide range of social justice initiatives carried out by this multi-cultural, progres­sive congregation.
• Tucson Community Food Bank: Volunteers work in the Food Securities Division of the Food Bank and are invited to explore their calling to com­munity education, organic gardening, community outreach, advocacy of secure food systems and farmer’s market activities.
• Community Home Repair Project of Arizona (CHRPA): Volunteers work closely with Mennonite volunteers and staff to provide free home repair to the working poor of Tucson.
• Presbyterian Peace Fellowship: Volunteers help organize public wittiness events and accompaniment opportunities in areas of conflict.
• Frontera de Cristo: Volunteers work extensively with Protestants, Catholics and people of good will in the United States and Mexico to provide direct humanitarian assistance to deportees returned to Mexico by the Border Patrol.
• Companeros en Mission: Volunteers work closely with U.S. and Mexican staff and volunteers to plan and lead immersion experiences for U.S. congregations seeking to be in partnered relationships with Presbyterian churches in the interior of Mexico.
• Cascabel Arizona: Volunteers live and work with in a diverse community of ranchers, gardeners, land redemption advocates and conservation minded rural residents in the wild and scenic San Pedro River Valley.

Housing
Tucson volunteers live together in a five-bedroom house set on three acres just a mile from downtown Tucson.

Intentional Community Aspects
Volunteers participate in the Volunteers Exploring Vocation curriculum, an 18-session process of spiritual direction and vocational discernment as well as one on one spiritual direction and regular meetings with the site coordinator. Weekly house meetings include book studies and discussion of house business and projects.

Requirements
Age: 20-29
Education: college desirable
Other: Spanish is a big help in all the placements and a requirement for two of them.

Site Coordinator
The Rev. Brandon Wert

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