An Opening for This Year: Join Beloved in the Desert!
BITD Cohort 2019-2020 hiking on their retreat in late 20219!
Beloved in the Desert Episcopal Service Corps in Tucson, Arizona seeks a community member for the service year late-October/November 2021-May 31, 2022
Beloved in the Desert is a community of young adults living in Tucson, Arizona engaged in service with local non-profits, living in intentional community, prayer, intergenerational Christian community, and learning through a lens of social justice community organizing and daily praxis.
This community seeks a fifth member for the remainder of the year to serve alongside the current corps members. For 32 hours per week the candidate will serve with a partner non-profit, Interfaith Community Services.
Interfaith Community Services provides services to nearly 50,000 people each year in the Tucson area. ICS works directly with vulnerable populations by helping them in their time of crisis. The organization helps economically challenged clients with emergency needs like food, rent and utility assistance, helps vulnerable seniors with transportation and other services that help them stay in their homes, and help to break generational cycles of poverty through their programs. The Beloved in the Desert Corps Member serves in a variety of capacities across the agency. They will help coordinate transportation volunteers and homebound seniors, serve at the front desk, the food bank, and one-on-one with clients. In addition to these front-line duties the role also supports the mission of ICS with longer term fundraising and administrative projects. Made up of 120 faith community partners, ICS serves a diverse clientele, partners with many local agencies, and makes change in Tucsonan's lives every day.
Luke (BITD 2020-2021) working at Interfaith Community Services
This 7-month commitment offers health insurance, a personal stipend, community food budget, Spiritual Direction, and significant offerings of personal and professional development in community.
Beloved in the Desert and and the community around it is characterized by a commitment to the prayers of the Episcopal Church, robust partnership across Churches, non-profits, and communities, being intentional about being a unique desert and border community, and engaging the realities of today personally, professionally, and communcally with justice, charity, wisdom, care, and hope. Alumni of Belvoed in the Desert reflect on their experience on the @beloved_tucson instagram, and have gone onto vocations such as Lay Professional Ministry with Children, Youth, and Families, Social Work, Seminary work on both the Lay and Ordained tracks, Non-Profit Program Leadership and Higher Ed Administration, and Academia.
BITD Corps Members 2020-2021 serving with members of St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church for the recorded Christmas service during the COVID-19 pandemic
They reflect that their commitments in Beloved in the Desert formed them with community skills, wise reflective practice, and deep faith that continue to inform their work.
Come see what God is revealing in the Desert!
For more information about the patterns of and history of the community, please see stphilipstucson.org/beloved-in-the-desert
With questions please email taylor.devine@stphilipstucson.org
To apply please click: https://bit.ly/ESCorps21-22
Jess (BITD ‘19-’20) speaking at the Epiphany party in 2020