College grads give a year to FrancisCorps to help, care for others

Published: 2004-09-17

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (CNS) -- Seven college graduates from across the country are giving a year to the FrancisCorps program to help and care for others in the Syracuse Diocese. The volunteers will spend the next year living in community with each other while tutoring, mentoring, coaching, counseling or advocating for the underserved in the community. FrancisCorps, a program for Catholic men and women, welcomed the group of young adults, its sixth such volunteer group, at a recent eucharistic liturgy and commissioning ceremony at the Church of the Assumption, a Franciscan parish in Syracuse. The group includes Nicole Bonk, Melissa Davey, Matthew Di Biase, Huy Huynh, Sinead O'Doherty, Abby Riewe and Lea Rosemurgy. FrancisCorps volunteers share a process of personal and spiritual growth with one another and the local community in collaboration with the Conventual Franciscan Friars, the Sisters of the Third Franciscan Order, Catholic Charities of Onondaga County and L'Arche, a community for the developmentally disabled.

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