With only one month under our belts, I have anxiously been counting down the days. Bolivia has already become an experience to remember, with learning how to...

Upon committing to volunteering in Thailand, I knew the language barrier would be a significant challenge I’d face during the year. However, I wasn’t too wor...

Oftentimes, I find that God sends me the most poignant messages in the ways I am most likely to spot them. When I was fifteen, I started working at a dairy s...

Simply Living does not come easily. However, For us it seems to come naturally. Searching for our Spirituality and discovering this tenet, Learning our own w...

It is incredible to think that it has already been 9 months since I started my year as the Public Policy GSV in New York City. I have learned a lot this year...

For my year of post-graduate service, I work at Rose House, non-secure placement, a rehabilitative home for adjudicated girls ages 13 to 17. The goal of our ...

If you told me six months ago that I would experience so much change and growth within me, I wouldn’t have believed you. These last few months have made me u...

New Year’s Resolutions… right! Happy New Year, folks. 2018 (2561 here in Thailand) is a “decisive year”, or so a good friend of mine keeps telling me. Like a...

Each Good Shepherd Volunteer is asked to write a "Member Story" to reflect on their year of service.  At the conclusion of her 2 years of service with Good S...

Throughout the school day, I often struggle to find the right words to say to our students. Sometimes they approach me or I just happen to be there when they...

I would like to introduce you to someone. She can barely read and cannot write in full sentences. Her arms are covered in old, (and not-so-old), scars from n...

We are proud to introduce the incredible 2017-2018 volunteers!  The Good Shepherd Volunteer year began this August with a week-long Orientation at Loyola Ret...