My daughter Linnea asked me to write a few thoughts about her time at VMC. What follows is my effort to share my point of view from a father’s perspective.
Vincentian Mission Corps
How To Get Your Parents On Board With A Year Of Service
Telling my parents that I wanted to do a year of service after graduation was one of the most stressful things I’ve had to do in my life.
VLM/VMC Impact: Continuing to Embrace the Vincentian Charism
Meet Krissy Bruce, a 2007 and 2008 Vincentian Lay Missionary in Ethiopia, and learn how she continues to embrace the Vincentian Charism today.
VLM/VMC Impact: Generation by Generation
We will be sharing a series of reflections made by Vincentian Lay Missionaries and Vincentian Mission Corps participants about their experience serving, how it has impacted their lives and how they continue to live the Vincentian Charism today. I was first...
VLM/VMC Impact: Hardly a Day Goes By…
We will be sharing a series of reflections made by Vincentian Lay Missionaries and Vincentian Mission Corps participants about their experience serving, how it has impacted their lives and how they continue to live the Vincentian Charism today. Hardly a day goes...
Vincentians Need A Break From Serving
On their Facebook page, The Vincentian Mission Corps wrote, Our volunteers just spent a wonderful weekend with Sr. Ann Marie and the Daughters of Charity in Evansville reflecting on community and friendship. Our volunteers get to enjoy a weekend at the guest house...
Vincentian Mission Corps USA announces new site
It is with great excitement that we announce the launch of our new website! We hope you find it more user friendly and easier to navigate! The site also includes our new logo! Thank you to all the alums who voted on the new design! We hope you like it! Please take a...
Raise Young Vincentians
Whenever we attend any Vincentian Family Gatherings, Matt and I always introduce our children (who are ages 3 and 1) as the littlest Vincentians of the Family. While we constantly have the “raise little Vincentians” voice in the backs of our heads, I wonder, do all...
Vincentian Mission Corps Volunteer Program Expands to Philadelphia
Vincentian Mission Corps Volunteer Program Expands to Philadelphia; Seeks Young Adult Volunteers to begin in August Following many years of service to the needy in St. Louis, Mo., the volunteers of the Daughters of Charity’s Vincentian Mission Corps Program will begin...
Vincentians of Wherever: Teachers
Coming from a family of many teachers, it would seem fairly routine for me to be in a teaching program. However, until my experience as a Gateway Vincentian Volunteer (’09-’10), education was never something I had considered. I initially joined GVV looking to do...
When I Analyze and Act #IamVincent
Analyze and act. That’s what Madeline Gemoules of the Vincentian Mission Corps reminds us to do in her article, “Healthcare coverage – What’s the real cost?” Vincentians, always engaged in practical responses, imitate St. Vincent when they analyze the situation well....
From the front lines of Affordable Care Act
Working as an outreach coordinator at Mercy Neighborhood Ministry, I see the Medicaid gap grow wider and wider every day through the individuals I meet…there are still so many that do not qualify for lower premiums.
