Long Term Service Opportunities

NET Ministries challenges young Catholics to love Christ and embrace the life of the Church. Every August, 175 young Catholics aged 18-28 leave behind their jobs, school, family, and friends to devote nine months to serving with NET. They travel across the U.S. for nine months to share the Gospel with young people and their families. Since 1981, NET teams have led over 34,000 retreats and ministered to more than 2.1 million young Catholics.

The House of Brigid invites recent college graduates to live as an intentional lay community for one year, dedicating themselves to the service of the Irish Catholic Church and to spiritual and personal formation. The ministry includes a variety of liturgical and catechetical responsibilities. House Fellows plan Masses, direct choirs, support the catechesis of school children and adults, prepare and offer retreats, and bring their ministry to the greater Irish Church through workshops and radio programs. Applications open in November to be submitted by January for the following August start.

Fidesco recruits, trains, and sends teams of volunteers to under-served areas of the world for one or two year missions. Our teams offer their professional skills to the needy, fostering full human development regardless of religion, ethnicity, or culture. Volunteers may participate as individuals, couples, or families, and are sent in teams. Despite the challenges of the Covid-19 Pandemic, the new volunteers will join those already in the field taking their skill sets to serve the poor. Questions? Email info@fidescousa.org

Since its founding in 1993, the Alliance for Catholic Education has been committed to sustaining, strengthening, and transforming Catholic schools. Each year, the ACE Teaching Fellows program welcomes approximately 90 talented, faith-filled college graduates to enter formation as beginning teachers. Over the course of two summers and two academic years, ACE teachers earn a cost-free Masters of Education from the University of Notre Dame and eligibility for state teaching licensure. Our teachers also live in small communities of 4-8 members, all across the country, and together share the many joys and challenges of early teaching. To apply or find out more, visit ace.nd.edu/teach!

This program is a one-to-two year, full-time teaching fellowship for recent college graduates committed to our mission—to helping underserved children whose families cannot afford a Catholic education make it to college and heaven. Fellows are faith-filled and hard-working leaders who are Christ-centered models of virtue, have a heart for serving the poor, and want to help transform communities in need. Fellows help the students and families they serve as well as their peers to know, love, and serve Christ and His Church. Fellows immerse themselves in the community in which they serve--embracing solidarity and simplicity in their mission and way of life. At the same time, they participate in their own holistic formation by accompanying, developing, and challenging each other, striving to serve with the mind, heart, and spirit of Christ the Teacher.

We’re looking for dynamic, faith-filled missionaries who love working with kids and are passionate about serving the poor. We’re looking for selfless leaders who feel called to further the mission of the New Evangelization while living in intentional faith communities.

The mission of Christ in the City is rooted in drawing it’s participants into an intimate relationship with Jesus, touching what it means to be human: being loved by God in the midst of our own poverty and being called to love those around us in the midst of their own poverty.

Through this process, missionaries are better equipped to grow during their time with us and thrive as emerging leaders who return to their communities with a profound and mature faith. They return home with the skills to form others in service and to evangelize our culture and society.