There’s a question that has haunted me for as long as I can remember. It first emerged during my elementary school days, posed by my loving parents around the dining‐room table. When I started college, the question that followed me…
My name is Silvana Arevalo, and I am a Mercy Volunteer in Baltimore, MD, working at Mercy Medical Center (MMC) as a chaplain in Pastoral Care. I am not your typical volunteer; I am 38 years-old and it has been…
Being a member of MVC has been a unique experience. To me, the best part of my service year has been living in a new city. Having grown up in a Midwestern town of three-thousand people with one stoplight, living…
Dear Future Volunteers, In my placement as a social work assistant at Mercy Medical Center, I get the opportunity to work with patients at all stages of their hospital stay, from their visit in the Emergency Department, through inpatient admission,…
My time with Mercy has been a sum of gorgeous peaks and challenging valleys, as, I suppose, all of life is. It took me several weeks to settle into the flow of Baltimore and to feel established in my service…