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Volume 1 (Browse contents)

1. SASS: A Girl's Guide to Surviving Middle School
   Kayla Walker Edin
   

2. Companionship
   Jack Brace
   

Volume 2 (Browse contents)

1. Wrapped up in Truth: Reflections from Khayelitsha
   Katie Frankhauser
   A Krista Colleague reflects on truth in post-apartheid South Africa.

Volume 3 (Browse contents)

1. Southern Storm: A Reflection on AIDS Hospice Work
   Lindsay Leeder
   A Krista Colleague shares how sitting in genuine solidarity with patients facing death became a life altering, even mystical experience.

Volume 4 (Browse contents)

1. Slowly Slowly Catches the Monkey
   Nathan Brouwer
   Between the hundredth cup of tea and the task of teaching and re-teaching computer basics, a Krista Colleague wrestles the monkey of progress.

2. Culture Shock & Knowing your History
   Judy Naegeli
   A challenging year of service in Vietnam becomes a catalyst for redefining identity.

3. Pouring from an Empty Cup
   Sarah Peterson
   A Krista Colleague examines the dry reservoir of her once activist spirit in search of a more sustainable source of energy and care.

4. Celtic Rhythm of Rest: Life Lessons from Iona
   Rachel Grassley
   One Colleague’s life giving discovery: an ancient Celtic Christian community is a well-spring for learning the rhythm of work, prayer and rest.

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

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

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. 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.

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.