{"id":30737,"date":"2016-05-27T15:12:34","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T19:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/?p=30737"},"modified":"2016-06-02T11:13:59","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T15:13:59","slug":"jesuit-volunteer-corps-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2016\/05\/27\/jesuit-volunteer-corps-experience\/30737\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jesuit Volunteer Corps Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Jesuit Volunteer Corps is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year.\u00a0 It is one of a number of denomination- and church-related service organizations that gives young college graduates a chance to change their lives by living simply in community with one another and by serving those in need. Correspondent Deborah Potter reports on one JVC group in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where the volunteers describe how their experience of life together and work with those who are poor, sick, or hungry has affected them. \u201cI see the presence of God in all of my clients so profoundly,\u201d says one volunteer. \u201cYou\u2019re told that you have Christ inside us, but I never actually saw it until I came here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSpirituality has been my biggest value of this year, and I have learned so much about my faith. Within my work God is so intricately intertwined I don\u2019t think I could separate the two,\u201d says Megan Newman, a JVC participant. \u201cI\u2019ve just grown up in so many ways, and I\u2019ve changed the way I\u2019ll be a nurse forever.\u201d<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2016\/05\/27\/jesuit-volunteer-corps-experience\/30737\/\" class=\"more\">More <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":30794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6569],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videocast","faith-christian"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Jesuit Volunteer Corps Experience | May 27, 2016 | Religion &amp; 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