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Volume 2 (Browse contents)

1. Staying for Tea: Five Principles for the Community Service Volunteer
   Aaron Ausland
   Lessons learned in the field are distilled into a set of principles.

Volume 4 (Browse contents)

1. Raising Global Citizens: A Father's Reflections
   John Frankhauser
   A father reflects on the blessing and challenge of rearing globally conscious children in our consumptive and self-motivated society.

Volume 5 (Browse contents)

1. Taking Care: The Quest for an Ethical and Mutual Approach to Service
   Valerie Norwood
   Can service be unethical? The Krista Foundation's Executive Director Valerie Norwood explores the impact of service on both the individual volunteer and the host community, challenging the reader to help build a culture of care in service volunteerism.

2. Companionship
   Jack Brace
   A young volunteer experiences a life-changing moment of community in the most unexpected of places.

3. Story Thatching: Living Grace
   Hector Herrera
   Social worker Hector Herrera encounters moments of grace in his daily interactions with one of the most vulnerable populations in the U.S.: homeless alcoholics.

4. No Great Things
   David James Duncan
   Award-winning writer David James Duncan practices the daily act of expressing love through "small" things.

5. Come to the Table: Values for the Community Service Volunteer
   Aaron Ausland
   Krista Colleague Aaron Ausland invites us to consider a values framework for global citizenship that will empower young adults to emulate a life-long ethic of service, civic engagement, and global understanding.

6. I'm Going Home, But First
   Rachael Novak
   After spending a year in Americorps, a young adult grapples with the decision to attend graduate school or to return to her home on the Diné (Navajo) Reservation.

7. Service Compost
   Sarah Wanless
   When an accomplished college athlete brings the same drive for success to her service activities, she experiences burnout and exhaustion before finding healing and hope.

8. Service Compost
   Sarah Wanless
   When an accomplished college athlete brings the same drive for success to her service activities, she experiences burnout and exhaustion before finding healing and hope.

9. Household Economics: Practicing Purposeful Living in a Global Commons
   Sharon Daloz Parks
   With lives that are increasingly pressured by time, consumer culture, and resource scarcity, Sharon Daloz Parks draws on Mennonite and Quaker insights to re-imagine what household economics might look like in both our personal and planetary home.

10. From Jinja Town to Farm Town
    Darien Palpant
    A former volunteer in Uganda adjusts to life in small-town America and reflects on the life-changing events that took her across two continents and back again in search of community.

11. Historic Inspiration for Travel & Service in the Formation of Leadership
    James Hunt
    Historian James Hunt uncovers the role that travel and service have played in shaping great American leaders throughout the nation's history.

12. A Terrible Beauty
    Linda Hunt
    When her daughter's life of service is cut short by tragedy, Linda Hunt travels to Bolivia in search of grace and healing.