Faith-Based Service Opportunities (adapted from listing at www.idealist.org):

AmericaCorps*VISTA – Provides full-time members to nonprofit, faith-based and other community organizations and public agencies to create and expand programs that ultimately bring low-income individuals and communities out of poverty.

AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps – A year-long, full-time program that combines Jewish learning with social activism and community building in low-income neighborhoods in New York City and Washington, DC.

Christian Appalachian Project – An interdenominational, nonprofit Christian organization committed to serving people in need in Appalachia by providing physical, spiritual and emotional support through a wide variety of programs and services.

JDC Jewish Service Corps – Offers qualified individuals the chance to serve a Jewish community abroad in such areas as Jewish outreach, community development, health and social welfare.  Volunteers are selected to match the particular needs of overseas communities.

Jesuit Volunteer Corps – Offers 1-2 year commitments in both the United States or internationally at hundreds of grassroots organizations that provide service to low-income people.

Jewish Organizing Initiative – A one-year service program working with Boston-area community and labor organizations.  The year includes a commitment to regular sessions in community-building among ten or more “fellows” of the JOI, mostly young adults in their twenties.  The sessions include training in community organizing, Jewish identity and tradition, and group projects in the community.

Lutheran Service Corps – An urban ministry that matches full-time volunteers with programs that serve people in need in the Omaha, NE area.

Mercy Volunteer Corps – A 1-2 year-long service program in the United States in both urban and rural regions.  All Mercy Volunteers work with those who are economically poor or marginalized in a spirit of solidarity and mutuality; live simply in community; and commit to personal and communal spiritual growth.

Peace Corps – A US government organization of men and women who live in a country outside the US for two years, working at the grass-roots level to help solve some of the most important challenges facing the developing world.

Vincentian Service Corps – Organization for men and women who want to give one year of their lives to serve the poor, live in community with other Corps members and experience a simple lifestyle.

Additional Theology & Philosophy Links:

American Association of Religion

American Philosophical Association

Catholic Source.org

Christian Jobs Online

ChristiaNet

Ministry Connect

MinistrySearch

National Catholic Reporter Classifieds

Philosop

Vocations Online