2023-2024 Precious Blood Volunteers: Claire Downs

2023-2024 Precious Blood Volunteer, Claire Downs

Meet Claire Downs! She’s one of the 2023-2024 Precious Blood Volunteers.

Claire graduated from Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. Claire has a degree in biology and a double minor in public health and psychology. She will be serving at KC CARE Health Center in Kansas City, Missouri. Her main duties at KC CARE will be serving as a community health worker. As a community health worker she will help address the needs of KC CARE’s patients that impact their overall health. Claire will be the first of our volunteers to work as a community health worker. In the past our volunteers have served as medical assistants. This will give our volunteers an opportunity to walk more closely, and learn from, the people KC CARE serves.

Why do you want to volunteer?

“I want to volunteer to put the faith that I have been working to grow into action and serve others. I want every person that I meet to know that they are loved and that they are worthy. My goal is to live my life from a place of empathy and compassion, a life that comes from giving of myself to the Lord and living out the mission of Precious Blood!”

Why do you want to volunteer with Precious Blood Volunteers?

“I love the way that Precious Blood works with programs that are already in place to serve those in need, bringing the mission of relationship and reconciliation into the heart of these organizations. It allows me to use my gifts in a new form of service for the Lord!”

What are you looking forward to about your volunteer experience?

“I am excited to build community with others who are trying to live out Christ’s love. I am also excited to encounter the Lord through everyone that I meet and to have conversations with the people I’m serving!”

Learn more about Precious Blood Volunteers at preciousbloodvolunteers.org.

Introducing the 2023-2024 Precious Blood Volunteers!

2023-2024 Precious Blood Volunteer, Abigail Standish

2023-2024 Precious Blood Volunteer, Claire Downs

2023-2024 Precious Blood Volunteer, Clare Brown

2023-2024 Precious Blood Volunteer, Anna Nowalk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We’re excited to announce the 2023-2024 Precious Blood Volunteers!

We have four wonderful young women who will be starting in late July. These four will join us for Orientation which starts on July 30, 2023 and ends on August 5, 2023. Two of them will be living in community at Jerusalem Farm in Kansas City, Missouri. The other two will be living in community with the Dayton Precious Blood sisters in Chicago.

Our two volunteers in Kansas City will be working at two different placements. Abigail Standish will be serving as coordinator of Bishop Sullivan Center’s “Order Ahead” program. Claire Downs will be serving as a community health worker at KC CARE Health Center. Abigail is from the Houston area, and Claire is a fellow Texan from the Dallas area. Abigail is our first volunteer from Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama. Claire is our second volunteer from Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas.

Clare Brown and Anna Nowalk will be serving in Chicago at Precious Blood Ministry of Reconciliation (PBMR). Clare is from the Chicago area, and Anna is from Virginia. Anna is our first volunteer who matriculated from Fordham University. Clare is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame.

Over the next several days we will be introducing them here on our website and on our social media feeds. Keep a look out for them!

Please keep our volunteers in your prayers as they begin their service. If you’d like to send them a note of support please send us an email at volunteers@preciousbloodkc.org.

Learn more about Precious Blood Volunteers at preciousbloodvolunteers.org.

2021-2022 Precious Blood Volunteers: Vincent Tedford

2021-2022 Precious Blood Volunteer, Vincent Tedford

We are excited to announce that Vincent Tedford will be serving as a Precious Blood Volunteer! Vincent will serve at Precious Blood Ministry of Reconciliation in Chicago, Illinois. He will be serving for the 2021-2022 volunteer year. Vincent is a graduate of Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Physics. Vincent is from Brownfield, Texas.

Why do you want to volunteer?

“I want to volunteer because I want to put my faith into action. I want to love others as I have been loved. Vocationally, volunteering prepares me for, what I hope to be, a lifetime of service to the world around me.”

Why do you want to volunteer with Precious Blood Volunteers?

“I want to volunteer with Precious Blood Volunteers because I like the people and the mission. From meeting all those who interviewed me, I got the sense one of my biggest dreams would be fulfilled, to be part of a family-like workplace. I want to support the mission of Precious Blood Ministry of Reconciliation as I walk with those who suffer, especially from injustice. While I hope to use my educational background for furthering mankind’s understanding of the universe, I think it equally important to support the educational needs of those in marginalized or underserved communities. I want a stake in a future where true justice, reconciliation, and love are more important, and in fact fundamental to, the advancement of humanity.”

What are you looking forward to about your volunteer experience?

“I am looking forward to being a compassionate teacher/mentor who plays a role in the education and progress of the individuals I serve. I look forward to building relationships with people who are different than I am and what we can learn from each other. Most of all, I look forward to living more like Christ and his apostles by simply focusing on the people around me, how I can be of service to them, and growing spiritually to be a vessel of God’s love.”

Learn more about Precious Blood Volunteers at preciousbloodvolunteers.org.