Welcome to IVC New York! We look forward to meeting you and sharing the Good News about Service to Others in the Jesuit tradition. Ignatian Volunteers pledge two days a week of service for ten months a year (September-June) or the equivalent amount of time depending upon their assignment and schedule.
NY Metro IVC encompasses three chapters and includes NYC, No. NJ and Long Island with each chapter meeting monthly at their local Jesuit parish or retreat House and volunteering at non profits within their local geography. For 2011-12 we begin the year with almost 40 volunteers, and 90 % of last year’s volunteers are returning for another year of service.
Who are Ignatian Volunteers? Mature and curious men and women from all walks of life and a variety of interests who want to serve others and grow in their faith. Members include recent and longer term retirees with a range of personal, spiritual and professional backgrounds including homemakers, teachers, lawyers, business owners, physicians, nurses, administrators, librarians, entrepreneurs, social workers, bankers, real estate brokers, pharmaceutical and technology executives to name a few. One thing our Volunteers share in common is their enormous impact on the lives of the people they serve and on the nonprofit organizations where they work.
In support of their service experience, Volunteers also participate in a year long monthly spiritual program of individual and communal reflection, discussion, and prayer in the Ignatian tradition, growing to understand their experiences in deeply personal ways. Volunteers meet individually with a spiritual reflector and also gather monthly to pray, reflect and share service experiences. During the year, our three chapters gather at a central location for our September and January Day of Reflection and end of the year May overnight retreat.
Ignatian Volunteers are generous with their time and talents. Yet our volunteers say over and over again that they receive back so much more than they give. Many volunteers stay in the program three or more years.
Over the past twelve years, Ignatian Volunteers have touched and changed hundreds of lives and have been profoundly changed in return. There are hundreds, if not thousands of potential Ignatian Volunteers in the New York region. Are you one them? We invite you to come and see!
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