Volunteer Stories

Following the Whispers of God

My first encounter with FrancisCorps occurred at the SEEK conference when I walked by the booth and was given a flyer and a St. Clare keychain (St. Clare is my confirmation saint!). After SEEK, I was going through the process of applying to various job opportunities, several of which I was really interested in, but…


Finding Where I’m Meant to Be

Going into my last semester of college, I was very unsure what I wanted my future to look like. I had a general plan of taking a gap year and then pursuing some sort of health professional school, but really that was the only idea that I had. As I was searching through graduate programs…


More Than a Coincidence

FrancisCorps came to me as a coincidence. I stumbled upon it while browsing the Facebook page of UCSD’s Newman Center. It was the end of my first quarter of senior year and I was trying to figure out what’s next following my graduation from university. After 18 years of schooling, I did not have the…


Learning to Surrender My Life to God

I joined FrancisCorps kinda unplanned and learning to truly trust my faith in God. I had recently found out I was potentially going to graduate earlier than expected and my plan was beginning to disintegrate right in front of my very eyes. Around that same time my campus ministry went to SEEK 2022 where I…


Jumping into the Unknown

My FrancisCorps journey began during my senior year of college as I began to try and figure out what I was going to be doing after graduation from George Mason. Early in the year I had applied for what I had used to believe was my dream job. While going through the interview process for…


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