Why serve with Tucson MVS?
Build Community.
Tucson MVS is all about connection! You’ll get to build a wide community network by living in a house with other volunteers, connecting with the congregation of Shalom Mennonite Fellowship, and creating relationships through your job at your service placement.
Serve & Lead.
Dedicating a year to service will help you grow your leadership skills and serve communities in need. Tucson MVS’s unique location and environment will help you gain important work and life experience and develop skillsets you might not have the chance to otherwise - all while nurturing the wellbeing of those who need it most.
Explore Faith & Vocation.
While serving with Tucson MVS you’ll get to explore important questions, mutually give and seek support from your community, travel to new places, and learn what you feel are your true gifts and callings.
Here are some Highlights!
Tucson MVS Participants Will…
Experience a year of serving with nonprofits in Tucson
Deepen and explore gifts and callings through engagement and interaction with community life
Live in intentional community with other volunteers in the MVS house next to Shalom Mennonite Fellowship
Have opportunities for spiritual formation through attending a local congregation, and being provided one-on-one spiritual direction if desired
Receive public transport reimbursement and food stipend (and health coverage if needed)
Receive a modest, personal monthly stipend
Participate in and be supported by the Shalom community of faith
Explore the southwest with tours of the borderlands (US & Mexico border) and trips to places like the Grand Canyon and Mexico
Not be alone handling student loans since most student loan payments can be deferred during service and MMN offers student loan scholarships!
“The Tucson MVS experience fostered lifelong friendships and boatloads of great memories
…long conversations over shared meals, house projects, shared bike rides to work, long hikes, and sunsets from the roof. Additionally the city’s proximity to the heart of many social justice issues --the US border wall and immigration, the desert and food/water security, and the air force base and the US military industrial complex-- means that every day there are opportunities to live out a faith that speaks truth to power and love to the powerless.”
- Karina Kreider, Tucson MVSer 2014-2016
Learn more about where our volunteers have served while participating in Tucson MVS!
Got Questions?
Check out Frequently Asked Questions and How To Apply