We are blessed at La Posada to have active volunteers who visit us each week. We want to introduce you to just some of the wonderful people who live the Gospel mandate to “welcome the stranger” by spending time with us at La Posada. After a life-long career as a teacher, Mary from Port Mansfield, Texas, …
We welcome a new volunteer to La Posada, Jay Anderson. Jay is originally from Alburquerque, NM, and attended college at the University of Arizona. “My experience of God in college and especially at the Catholic Newman Center gave me the desire to serve those in need,” said Jay. “I organized volunteers to help the local …
Eve Marie Blasinsky wants to become a college professor some day, so she went to La Posada Providencia to gain experience teaching. In the unfathomable way ofProvidence, she wound up doing a lot of learning along the way. Her month-long stay as a volunteer was “challenging, really eye-opening” and may have changed her life more …
We were blessed to have two remarkable young women at La Posada Providencia during the first months of this year. Sister Bertshabe Palomino Montalvo, a novice with the Sisters of Divine Providence, the community of women religious that sponsors La Posada, spent three months at the shelter gaining ministry experience – all kinds of experience! …
Looking for a way to be useful and practice my Spanish, I asked around for a place where I could volunteer. La Posada Providencia, in San Benito, Texas, was recommended and I was welcomed with open arms. I stayed 19 days, helping to teach English, drive clients to and from appointments, shop for groceries, cook, …
La Posada welcomed its first clients from North Korea in 2007. Two women arrived at the shelter, fleeing what we believe to be violent oppression. (We are not certain of the details of their cases, because of the language barrier and their extreme emotional distress. We honor their request not to use their photographs.) The …
