One of our great success stories in the NVC Service Ministry, is the expansion of our Community Outreach Team under the inspiring leadership of Karen Blakeley. During the last couple of years, this team served underprivileged kids, furry friends, and our elders with great creativity, enthusiasm and a whole lot of fun!
Karen is stepping into new and exciting service opportunities and we wish her the very best as she is pursuing her Practitioner studies and so much more. Karen has graciously agreed to train the next Community Outreach Team Leader in the many aspects of this important role.
To highlight the different aspects of this role, we sat down with Karen to chat about her experience with the NVC Community Outreach team.
Karen, which project was our favorite:
Wow – that’s hard. Let’s see, we have partnered with Arizona
Interfaith Movement, Mission of Mercy, Desert Mission, Lost Our Home,
The Beatitudes and more. I would have to say my favorite was the
backpack drive we did for the homeless youth outreach at Phoenix
Children’s Hospital. This was a great opportunity for me to give
back to the Hospital that, for 10 years, supported me in growing both
as a nurse and a leader
What did you discover that surprised you:
Just how amazingly giving and supportive our entire NVC Community is.
I’m so grateful for everyone’s support of the outreach ministry’s
projects.
What does it take to be successful in this role:
Passion, a great big heart, strong organizational and management
skills and most importantly the ability to be a strong collaborative
leader and mentor to project leaders.
Please join me in thanking Karen for her service on this team and her willingness to train and support the next community outreach team leader.
Karen Blakeley – Community Outreach Team Leader; Vernice Reyes – Service Ministries, Director; Gina Zamora – Leadership Council, Liaison
Please contact any of us for more information.
Much Love,
Karin Lewis
NVC Community Care, Director
PS. IF you are interested in serving with NVC, please fill out the following application and someone will get back to you shortly.
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