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...

We are elated to ring in our 26th year with 11 volunteers placed in California, New Jersey, New York, and Thailand! The Good Shepherd Volunteer year began th...

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...

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...

Last spring, I felt myself yearning for a few things: writing, reading, yoga, prayer, music, nature — essentially, space and time for practices I knew rejuve...

Self-care.  It is a buzz word that you hear very often, but it is so much easier said than done.  During my first few years of teaching, it felt nearly impos...

I never imagined myself as an international volunteer. Even to this day, as I write to you from Nongkhai, Thailand, the label seems just as foreign as I am. ...

I am a worrier who hates to fly, so pretty much the only thing that would motivate me to travel halfway around the world, is seeing one of my daughters (I ha...

I find it a challenge to define my experience with Good Shepherd Volunteers in Thailand. As I have proceeded through life, I have found myself creating stori...

This year will be my first year celebrating Christmas without my family, as well as my first Christmas outside of the United States. So far, the weeks before...

As I have struggled in writing this blog, I realized that I hadn’t shared enough about one aspect of my volunteer experience in Thailand. My husband and I ha...