Precious Blood Volunteers

Grow in your faith. Build community.

Walk with those who suffer. Seek reconciliation.

The Four Pillars of Precious Blood Volunteers

Mike Nguyen with Student

Walk With Those Who Suffer

Your ministry as a Precious Blood Volunteer will give you the opportunity to serve people who have been marginalized because of their race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, illness, immigration status, or income level. You will walk with Jesus by sharing in the joys and sufferings of the people you are working with.

Grow In Your Faith

Your experiences as a Precious Blood Volunteer will challenge and deepen your relationship with Jesus. You will have daily opportunities to pray and talk about your faith journey with others. These opportunities include daily community prayer, spiritual direction, and meeting with lay people and religious committed to renewal and reconciliation.

Build Community

While serving as a Precious Blood Volunteer, you will live in community with other Precious Blood volunteers, priests, brothers, or sisters. You will pray, work, and learn with lay people and religious while living a simple lifestyle that reflects hospitality, reconciliation, and common prayer.

Seek Reconciliation

As a Precious Blood Volunteer you will share in the mission of all Christians to bring hope to the suffering, reconciliation to the alienated, a sense of community to the lonely, and a deeper faith to all who seek God. You will work to build bridges across the many divides in our communities, churches, and world.

“Come into this circle, sit with us, be with us. We know your pain, and we can share ours, and the burden can be a bit lighter.
We can share healing, too, and laughter, and breakfast, and we can laugh raucously in the middle of the hallway together.”

-Raechel Kiesel, 2021

“The liberty of our communities at large is bound to the liberty of each community. Wherever I go, no matter what I do,
I now know my liberty is bound to my neighbors and we can work together. Marginalized, far-off, and/or rejected, you carry within you the same Precious Blood we all share.”

-Vincent Tedford, 2021

“God is present deeply with those who suffer. These are truths we recognize profoundly in the spirituality of the Precious Blood.”

-Aaron Wise, 2021

“At the start of my volunteer commitment, I had expected to develop close interpersonal relationships with my community mates,
especially considering the emphasis the program placed on community living. But there was no way for me to imagine the level of trust and friendship
that blossomed throughout the course of this experience.”

– Lota Ofodile, 2017

“I am especially grateful for the experiences and skills I gained from the Precious Blood Volunteer program and that I am able
to share them with my community now. It has helped me bridge the past and present versions of myself. I am glad I have a community to journey with.”

-Caitlin Caminade, 2019

Precious Blood Volunteer News

The Logistics of Showing Up

The Logistics of Showing Up

“When I think of accompaniment, I visualize a person walking alongside someone else. These tenets of PBMR conjure images of care made tangible by the presence of a loving person. The phrase “ministry of presence” is an apt way to describe what PBMR aims to provide: relationship comes before programming. We’re here for people. We show up.”

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2023-2024 Precious Blood Volunteers: Claire Downs

2023-2024 Precious Blood Volunteers: 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...

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2023-2024 Precious Blood Volunteers: Anna Nowalk

2023-2024 Precious Blood Volunteers: Anna Nowalk

Meet Anna Nowalk! She's one of the 2023-2024 Precious Blood Volunteers. Anna graduated from Fordham University in Manhattan, New York. She is the first graduate of Fordham to serve as a Precious Blood Volunteer. Anna earned two degrees one in music, and the other in...

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Our History

Marie Trout, a Precious Blood lay Companion, and Fr. Al Ebach, C.PP.S., a Precious Blood priest, came up with a plan to give an opportunity for lay people to live in service to others for a year as part of the Missionaries of the Precious Blood. In April 2008, they presented their idea at the Kansas City Province annual Assembly. Their plan was approved during the annual Assembly of the members of the Kansas City Province.

Since that time, the former Kansas City Province and the new United States Province has had volunteers serving people at schools, a health clinic, social service centers, a hospital, an LGBTQ service center, parishes, and a legal aid clinic. Our volunteers have gone on to careers in medicine, education, ministry, and engineering. Precious Blood Volunteers alumni have worked with organizations such as Big Brothers/Big Sisters, Habitat for Humanity, Catholic Charities, Precious Blood Ministry of Reconciliation, and the American Cancer Society.

Precious Blood Volunteers is committed to the belief that all people are children of God and should be treated with dignity and respect. We welcome volunteers regardless of race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, or military service. The placements where our volunteers work should be open to serving people regardless of their race, religion, nationality, immigration status, color, marital status, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, political affiliation, or military status.

Our Mission

Our mission is to form lay Christians in Precious Blood spirituality by building community, walking with those who suffer, and seeking reconciliation in a divided world.

Get in touch!

Call (816) 781-4344 and speak with our Director, Tim Deveney. You may also email us at volunteers@preciousbloodkc.org or complete the form below.

2130 Saint Gaspar Way, Liberty, MO 64068

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