COVENANT

As an Amate House volunteer, I come this year to give witness to the core Gospel message: to love one another. In this spirit, I dedicate myself to the task of putting LOVE INTO ACTION. My challenge, this year, will be to grow in faith, service, intentional community, social justice, and stewardship through praxis.

SERVICE

• I will devote my time, energy, and care to help make life better for the people I encounter at my service site
• I will accompany society's powerless and marginalized on their walk through life

COMMUNITY

• I will live in common with the other Amate House volunteers, sharing lives of support, challenge, and friendship
• I will strive to treat my community members with charity, gentleness, and respect in our daily interactions and our community work

FAITH

• I will welcome this year as an opportunity to explore my faith in prayer, reflection, and worship
• I will remain open to different expressions of faith and to the way in which the Spirit is inviting us to grow and learn together

SOCIAL JUSTICE

• I will take part in the process of "conscience-ization"- developing my knowledge, awareness of, and desire to change structures of injustice in society
• I will work to promote change in our society toward equality, fairness, and equitable distribution of resources and power

STEWARDSHIP

• I will use the resources that God has provided in a way that creates right relationship
• In solidarity with the poor, I will live simply and mindfully