COLLEAGUE YEAR: 2015 PLACEMENT: Mission Year; Peace Community Center LOCATION: Chicago; Tacoma CURRENT: Program staff, College Success Foundation ​​Arlicia Etienne loves seeing a vision come to life. In three years of service in Chicago and Tacoma, she watched a firehouse become a community arts center and underrepresented high school students graduate and pursue their college or career dreams. But another vision motivated her: connecting the gifts of millennials to church. “

COLLEAGUE YEAR: 2018 PLACEMENT: Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos LOCATION: Guatemala ​​Not knowing any international service volunteers, Thomas Dempsey was both excited and apprehensive about starting service in Parramos, Guatemala. “Sharing my concerns and hearing from people at the Krista Foundation conference who have been through it all was a real comfort to me,” he says. Now deep in the “whirlwind learning experience” of a new language, culture, and community, he is putting th