Lutheran Volunteer Corps places volunteers in social service and environmental agencies and ministries for one year service. Jobs include working with children and youth, couseling rape survivors and AIDS patients, staffing shelters for the homeless, mobilizing to end hunger, legal assistance, environmental work, tutoring adults, organizing for better health care, providing housing and medical assistance to urban poor, writing, research and policy-related work. Volunteers receive a monthly stipend for rent, food, health insurance, and basic personal expenses, and live in intentional community. Student loans can be deferred. Application deadlines are March 1, April 1, May 1, and June 1.
Earlier applicants have a greater selection of placements.
Lutheran Service Corps offers social service programs for people in need in the Omaha area. Volunteers, in turn, receive housing in a Christian community house, allowances for food, transportation, and long distance phone calls, basic health insurance, and student loan deferment. Urban Servant Corps places people of all ages for one year in social service programs throughout the Denver area, many of them dealing with homelessness. Participants live together, along with members of similar programs. A Reconciled in Christ organization.