Peace
Canada, Bolivia
Story
… has today. Hear his story of how a year in Canada through IVEP – and especially his time at a retirement center in … serve and learn in your community and around the world. … IVEP … Changed by serving: Willan’s story …
Disaster response
Louisiana, Kenya
Story
… … Editor’s note: This story about IVEP participant Jack Odhiambo was written by Krystal Hollier … in the International Volunteer Exchange Program (IVEP), which offers a yearlong opportunity for volunteers to … impression on our hearts.” … 174 … 119 … 25 … 32 … IVEP … Building homes, breaking boundaries …
United States
Story
… you back to a specific time but my experience as both an IVEP alumnus and now a YAMEN host surely takes me back to the golden time of my life when I was an IVEP participant. The experience of doing IVEP was not just a … I’ve experienced before in IVEP. As someone who was an IVEPer five years ago, I know that many things pop up in a …
Ohio
Story
… and Greg Steffen of Steffen Farm have been partnering with IVEP for multiple cohorts. This year Steffen Farm has … technology today provide ways to stay connected with past IVEPers. We continue to be available for questions, …
United States
Story
… The Shalom Project is not your typical IVEP host family, but after great experiences hosting two IVEPers in past years we were excited to welcome Kezia … is now with us from Indonesia. It can be daunting for an IVEPer to enter our Shalom Project host family since they are …
Ohio
Story
… children Amos and Josiah Bixler, are hosting 2024-2025 IVEPer Elvis Otieno, who is from Kenya. Elvis serves as the … 2024. We had time to read our preparation materials from IVEP and the book Foreign to Familiar, which was helpful in … of our friends in the community and our church had hosted IVEPers as well, so we knew we had good support in this …
United States
Story
… of dollars I thought I would earn as a stipend through the IVEP service. I knew as a volunteer I did not earn a salary … forever grateful to yourself for accepting to serve as an IVEPer. They that wait upon the lord shall renew their … that God has enabled me to face all of this. For the IVEPers who are soon returning home, do what you can, don't …
Education, Peace
British Columbia
Story
… being painted, but his as well. I then realized that IVEP is not an event, it’s a space where worlds collide, it … of my and my roommate’s lives. To the imaginative, the IVEP experience is not just a year, it is the indelible pages … I left with a tranquil heart. I wouldn’t profess that the IVEP year was perfect, it was riddled with curveballs, …
United States
Story
… Header photo: IVEP 2023-2024 participants during orientation in Akron, … funny to schedule a phone call with two of my fellow IVEPers for 6 p.m., 7 p.m. and 9 p.m.! The landscape is … from Cambodia to Harleysville, Pennsylvania … 71 … 25 … IVEP … Stories of cultural exploration in the U.S. …
Illinois, Kenya
Story
… months. Editor’s note: Zilpa Charles is a 2023-2024 IVEP participant from Kenya who is serving in Chicago, … Photo courtesy of Living Works … 192 … 119 … 25 … IVEP … Exciting, nerve-wracking, amazing, enriching …
Education
Virginia
Story
… family, of Harrisonburg, Virginia, are currently hosting IVEPer Hulda Sharon, who is from Indonesia. Top photo: From … Virginia. Photo/Sinead Sargeant … 162 … 25 … 103 … IVEP … Old memories and new memories …