Each weeklong session blends service, prayer, reflection and sharing in an environment of simple living. The goal is Christ-centered service.
Groups are limited to 24 participants, ages 14 years and older. Adult chaperones must accompany groups with members 18-years-old and younger. Groups serve for three to seven days.
Our fully heated and air-conditioned house sits on a scenic 10-acre site. Multiple rooms with bunks separate chaperones and students. There are two-and-a-half bathrooms, a kitchen, and an area for reflection and prayer.
This cost covers room and board as well as accident insurance for each volunteer.
Space is limited. Reserve your space below and our volunteer director will confirm your reservation.
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Join us for a retreat-like mission-immersion program for high school, college, and adult volunteers.
Volunteers and chaperones should pack enough casual, comfortable clothing for a week. Remember to include extra clothes that you are not afraid to get dirty, painted on or possibly ruined. See here for a full packing list!
Volunteers and chaperones should pack enough casual, comfortable clothing for a week. Remember to include extra clothes that you are not afraid to get dirty, painted on or possibly ruined.
Our fully heated and air-conditioned house sits on a scenic 10-acre site. Multiple rooms with bunks separate chaperones and students. There are two-and-a-half bathrooms, a kitchen, and an area for reflection and prayer.
Every volunteer should bring about $40 with them. The volunteers have opportunities to purchase T-Shirts, local crafts and to eat at a local restaurant.
Absolutely no alcohol or drugs are permitted at any Glenmary Group Volunteer Site.
Wear comfortable and casual clothes that you are not afraid to get dirty, painted on or possibly ruined.
Most likely you will, but we hope cell phone usage will not distract those who serve from those they serve with and those they serve.
For more information about our Catholic volunteer program at Glenmary Farm at Joppa Mountain, please contact:
Director of Glenmary’s volunteer programs
Being one of Glenmary’s Mountain Managers is a faith-based long term service opportunity that allows the individual to serve those most in need in Union and Grainger county, as well as those who come to serve as weeklong volunteers with Glenmary at the Glenmary Farm at Joppa Mountain.
This week will change your life! Learn, pray, serve, and return home with a new understanding.
Glenmary is a Catholic society of priests, brothers and lay missioners who serve primarily in Appalachia and the deep South. Glenmary was founded in 1939 by Father William Howard Bishop, who had a dream that the Catholic Church would be present everywhere in the United States.
Glenmary has served mission churches in 14 states with the goal to return newly developed parishes to the care of the local diocese. We can then move on to new mission territory.
Glenmary is proud that more than 120 parishes are former Glenmary missions. Our missions are in counties where less than 1% of the population is Catholic, as high as 75% claim no faith affiliation at all. Poverty averages 20%, almost two times the national average.
4119 Glenmary Trace, Fairfield, OH 45014
