Apply Soon for Service Corps
Adapted from the Office of Public Affairs
Jan. 8 is the application deadline for 2016-17 placement in the Young Adult Service Corps (YASC). Young adults (ages 21 to 30) have an opportunity to transform their own lives while engaging mission and ministry in the Anglican Communion by joining the Young Adult Service Corps, which is sponsored by the Episcopal Church.
YASC missionaries work in administration, agriculture, chaplaincies, development, education, parish-based and refugee ministries. They serve Brazil, Costa Rica, El Salvador, England, France, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Panama, the Philippines, South Africa, and Tanzania.
Many YASC write weblogs on this webpage.
New opportunities for service are available each year. Among the possible placements for 2016-17 are Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, England, France, Ghana, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Panama, the Philippines, South Africa, South Korea, Tanzania, and Zambia.
For more information contact Elizabeth Boe, Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society global networking officer, at eboe@episcopalchurch.org, or Grace Flint, Young Adult Service Corps networking officer, at gflint@episcopalchurch.org.
Image: Screenshot of Ashley Bingaman, a music teacher from Virginia who served as a missionary in Haiti from 2012 to 2014 with the Young Adult Service Corps.