LONDON, OHIO
The Commonage program is designed for young adults, aged 18-26, looking for summer or seasonal service opportunities. The program offers meaning and belonging through immersive experiences and education in restorative agriculture, spiritual practice, and communal living within a farm, camp, and retreat center setting. Commonage Members will experience life together tethered by prayer, shared meals, play, rest, reflection, conversation, service, and hard work. Participants live and work on land at the Procter Center, 1200 beautiful acres in Southern Ohio which include two farms, a 15-acre lake, a 70-acre woodland, and access to all camp amenities such as kayaks, canoes, hammocks, labyrinth, trails, sports court, fishing, and more. Members are part of the larger Procter community, which includes our Summer Camp staff and campers, volunteers, and patrons at the local farmer’s market. When you join The Commonage, you are joining a community, not just a job.
The Commonage offers a monthly stipend of $1,540, housing, utilities, health insurance coverage, most meals, and seasonal vegetables.
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA
Faith at the Crossroads invites young adults into a lifelong pilgrimage of reconciliation living out the question, "How do we live well together in an unjust and divided society?" Fellows are invited to engage the question through service with local nonprofits, living in intentional community, sincere engagement with the Christian tradition, and deep participation in ongoing personal formation.
Faith at the Crossroads seeks to form young adults to be rooted in faith, committed to service, and equipped to be reconciling leaders amidst an unjust and divided society. Additionally, we seek to resource local nonprofit organizations by connecting them with talented and passionate young adults. Through workshops, retreats, and other opportunities for engagement, F@TC Fellows explore the Christian traditions of contemplative practices, liberation theology, and the ministry of reconciliation. Ultimately, this community seeks to promote peace and reconciliation in the spiritual, relational, vocational, and civic lives of young adults and their communities.
Fellows receive health insurance, subsidized therapy, spiritual direction, a transportation stipend or pass for public transportation, vocational mentoring, housing, internet, utilities and a $400 monthly stipend and $250/month for food.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
Jubilee Year Los Angeles (JYLA) is an award-winning, paid, full-time Year of Service fellowship offering young adults the space to grow personally and professionally while uplifting communities, transforming lives, and critically engaging concepts of justice and equity.
JYLA Fellows will spend their year collaborating with our food justice partner agencies, helping to expand their capacity for change-making. Fellows also engage in a rewarding food justice curriculum and leadership development program that emphasizes intentional living, service to the community, professional/personal life balance, and spiritual formation.
JYLA is a non-residential fellowship, and is only accepting applicants based in Los Angeles County. The weekly commitment is 32 work hours at the assigned service site, and 6 hours of food justice training, spiritual and leadership formation. Fellows receive a $2750/month stipend, vision and dental care, paid vacation and sick leave, and mentorship.
SOUTH HADLEY, MASSACHUSETTS
A faith-based residential internship program for young adults, ages 21-31, Lawrence House Service Corps is an intentional, progressive Christian community, sponsored by All Saints' Episcopal Church in South Hadley, MA. The program has a particular charism of discernment; interns will participate in formal and informal discernment throughout the year, asking together how God is calling them to honor their faith by engaging in changing the world. Working within a diocese that is committed to young adult vocations, this program is especially helpful for persons discerning ordination, and yet is open to those who wish to serve in any capacity. Lawrence House offers traditional work site placements, through which interns will volunteer full-time and receive a small stipend; the program also offers the opportunity to work and/or attend school and still participate in the life of the community, including the multi-generational parish right next door.
Lawrence House provides fellows with furnished housing, utilities, insurance coverage, $150/month for food and a $200/month cash stipend.
ROCKFORD, MICHIGAN
Plainsong is cultivating a place where people are needed and belong - a place where people use their bodies to tend the land, nourish their neighbors, and ground themselves in hope and life-giving rhythms. Plainsong Farm is a living laboratory where young adults can experiment with how to pray, belong, grow, rest, and play. Plainsong's fellows work hard growing food for neighbors and food access sites, hosting volunteers, caring for the land, and walking alongside churches discerning how to steward their land and buildings for the common good. This fellowship program is designed for young adults, aged 21 to 32, and offers immersive experiences and education in small-scale regenerative agriculture, spiritual practice, and communal living. No farming experience expected. Willingness to get dirty and work outside in most weather needed.
Weekly commitment: 32 work hours per week, 8 formation hours per week. Compensation: $700 monthly stipend, housing, utilities, end-of-service award, health insurance, spiritual direction, and seasonal vegetables.
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA
Servant Year invites our members to live, serve, worship and discern in one place, St. James School in Philadelphia. Participants live in intentional Christian community--sharing rhythms of prayer, companionship, and reflective "big questions"-- while serving in the St. James Community. Members receive Care Funds to support them during this year and engage in Spiritual Direction, therapy, and a supportive community as they prepare for their next life steps. This immersive experience serves both as service to others and a meaningful transition into one's future career or calling.
Servant Year offers Corps members a $600 per month stipend with up to a $100 monthly match for retirement, along with housing, utilities, spiritual direction, and individual therapy. Members receive health insurance, and the program covers all co-pays for care. A $5,000 education award to help with student loans or continued education after the program, is available to all members. The program also covers travel costs for arrival and departure for the year of service and one trip during the service year. The program also supplies each member with a $500 clothing allowance at the beginning of the year.
Programs not recruiting for 2026-27
LIFE TOGETHER WYOMING SERVICE CORPS JOHNSON SERVICE CORPS
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS CODY, WYOMING DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
