Loyola College Spring Break Outreach
While thousands of area college students headed south for warmer weather and traditional spring break activities, a group of Loyola College students remained in Baltimore to participate in Loyola’s Spring Break Outreach program. This unique alternative spring break program immerses students into human service volunteer opportunities throughout Baltimore. The experience heightens awareness of systemic problems [...]
Love and Heartbreak
Maggie First, a prayer… Nothing is more practical than finding God, than falling in Love in a quite absolute, final way. What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything. It will decide what will get you out of bed in the morning, what you do with your evenings, how you [...]
Looking into the Past and Seeing the Future
Corey Let me tell you the story of how I got to Project SERVE. About eight months ago I was a college senior with only a few months until I graduated, and I still had no idea what I was going to do. I was earning a degree in religion and youth ministry, with the [...]
Linda Lewis Serves up Smiles at Sarah’s House
If it's the 3rd Wednesday of the month, it must be chicken nugget night at Sarah's House. Long-time volunteer Linda Lewis from Ark and Dove Presbyterian is known to the children at Sarah's House as the chicken nugget lady. Each month Linda, accompanied by volunteers from the church, serves a menu that among other items, [...]
Learning a valuable lesson by riding the subway
Cameron I’ve always been fascinated by public transportation. Coming from Sacramento, I always thought of it as some sort of a novelty, given the city’s sporadic and underdeveloped transit lines. Weekend trips to San Francisco excited me more for its underground BART system than anything else. Naturally, when I learned that Baltimore has a subway [...]
It’s About the People We Serve
It’s been quite a while since I last wrote the Project SERVE blog – it was back in September 2014, in fact - and a lot has happened in that time. As a community, we have gone from tentative explorers of the city to relatively competent denizens of the concrete jungle, from a certain mastery [...]
In Their Own Words: Why We Volunteer at Our Daily Bread
Click here to view the video. Thousands of people volunteer to serve more than a quarter million meals at Our Daily Bread each year. Volunteers first come to Our Daily Bread for a variety of reasons, but they all rejoice in having the opportunity to help others. In this video, Our Daily Bread meal service volunteers [...]
Hilda Peacock Lifts Spirits at My Sister’s Place
It was a cold day in December 2003 when a phone call was received from Hilda Peacock who had just finished reading an article in the Baltimore Sun featuring the women of My Sister’s Place (MSP). Hilda was so moved and touched by the article that she wanted to know how she could help the [...]
Harkins Builders Bring Fright and Delight to Villa Maria
Employees from Harkins Builders have gone all out once again, hosting their fifth annual Halloween Party for the children of Villa Maria. Each year the children are delighted as Harkins employees take over the rumpus room at Villa and turn it into a haunted house. Dressed as ghosts, goblins witches, and zombies, the men and [...]
Grateful To Be Able to Serve
Daisy When I started looking into a post-graduation year of service, I never would have thought that I would have to make sure that I would be able to afford to do it. This time a year ago, I was browsing through the pages of the huge Catholic Volunteer Network program guide. I read about [...]