MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA
Grounded Hope ESC Monterey is an intentional residential community for those who have a sense of curiosity and are interested in living with others while serving the local community. Grounded Hope ESC Monterey is a program designed to engage members in discerning hopeful lives in the world, for the world. We engage the natural world and resources around us, grounding our program in action, reflection, discernment, and spiritual curiosity. This program recognizes the potential transformation of all who participate in the life-giving work of service to others.
The community of Grounded Hope ESC Monterey is unique not only for the beauty of our location in Monterey Bay, California. We are also located in a partially remodeled building on the grounds of St. James Episcopal Church, The McGowan House, which is the home of the Monterey Bay Zen Center, many local AA groups, community artist group meetings and a Korean church. The transformative life of the building and its people are matched only by the feeling of the natural grounds surrounding it. We hope they inspire those who are drawn to our program to set aside their lives and give their time and service to others. We also honor the beauty of our natural surroundings being close to the Pacific Coast, Big Sur and places that make sitting with the mystery of such beauty in proximity that much more powerful.
Benefits include housing with all utilities paid, health and dental insurance, a $200/month cost-of-living stipend in addition to a food stipend, and access to mental health support and spiritual direction.
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. Fellows serve 32 hours/week at the community-minded service sites. They receive 6 hours/week of rewarding Food Justice cohort training, spiritual and leadership formation. Fellows receive an $18.47/hour stipend, paid sick/personal leave, and personal and professional 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. This 10-month intentional community program is designed to balance professional service, communal living, and spiritual depth. It follows a rhythmic structure of Orientation, Immersion, and Integration. Spiritual life at Lawrence House is not tied to one dogma, but anchored in contemplative action. This includes daily silence, study of sacred texts, and somatic practices such as yoga and breathwork. Service opportunities are a laboratory for practicing ethics, patience, and justice. Communal living offers the chance to practice a high-accountability shared economy for groceries and house needs to foster interdependence.
Lawrence House provides fellows with furnished housing, utilities, $250/month for food, a $400/month cash stipend, and transportation costs to and from placement sites.
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. Benefits of service include a $700 monthly stipend, housing, utilities, end-of-service award, health insurance, spiritual direction, and seasonal vegetables.
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA
Servant Year is an intentional Christian community for young adults ages 21-32 rooted in the life of the Community of St. James in North Philadelphia. Members commit to a shared Rule of Common Life shaped by prayer, worship, service, hospitality, simplicity, mutual accountability, and vocational discernment. Through meaningful service with St. James and community partners, life together at Audrey's House, spiritual direction, therapy, formation, and active participation in the worshiping life of the Church of St. James the Less, members are invited to live into the way of Jesus the Servant-offering their gifts for the flourishing of others while allowing themselves to be formed by the people and communities they encounter. Servant Year is more than an internship or volunteer placement; it is a year of giving, receiving, belonging, and discerning the next most faithful step in one's life and vocation.
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. An Education/Transition Award of up to $5,000 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, as well as other benefits. Together, these resources reflect that Servant Year is not a traditional job, but membership in an intentional Christian community in which the program and its members share responsibility for supporting one another's well-being, formation, service, and next vocational steps.
LONDON, OHIO
The Commonage program is designed for young adults, aged 18-26, looking for summer or seasonal service opportunities. The program brings together regenerative farming practices, spirituality, and intentional community to create a unique experience that encourages participants to be "in right relationship" with God, creation, self, and each other. 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.
Programs not recruiting for 2027-28
