OUR LOCATIONS
WORCESTER, MA
Worcester is home to the Assumption Center, where we collaborate with St. Peter’s Church and a dedicated team of volunteers to serve a diverse community of immigrants and refugees. We offer ESL classes for adults and tutoring programs for children, including “Girls With Dreams,” a space for girls aged 11–14 to grow in confidence and creativity, and a summer mini-camp for Vietnamese-American children. The Center also hosts the Kate O’Neill Library, the “Semillas de Vida” community garden, and the Cana Community—young adults and Assumption Mission Associates who bring energy and joy to our shared life.
As with all our communities, our ministry is rooted in prayer. We join the Assumptionists at Assumption College for daily Eucharist and the Liturgy of the Hours, and we open our weekly Lectio Divina to all during Advent and Lent through “Soup and Scripture.” Our chapel offers daily Eucharistic adoration open to the public. Worcester also serves as our provincial house and formation community, where we have the joy and responsibility of welcoming and guiding those discerning a vocation to religious life with us.
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CHAPARRAL, NM
In Chaparral, New Mexico—near the U.S.-Mexico border—the Assumption Sisters accompany immigrant families through educational, pastoral, and advocacy efforts. We offer youth programs that foster leadership and service, host summer camps that expose visiting groups to life on the border, and collaborate with local partners to support immigrant rights. Our ministries include ESL instruction, spiritual accompaniment in detention centers, Scripture classes, and welcoming college immersion groups. Rooted in prayer, we open our chapel 24/7 for neighbors seeking peace and presence with the Lord.
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Casa Maria Eugenia, home to our Assumption Mission Associates (AMAs), serves as a gathering place for local youth and a base for outreach. AMAs provide tutoring, lead parish youth activities, assist with ESL classes, and often create their own projects. Living and praying with our community, they grow close to both the Sisters and the people of Chaparral, discovering the unique spirit and hospitality of life on the border.
ENGLAND
Kids Kabin is an alternative education project based in Walker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Kids Kabin contributes to the regeneration of areas of economic disadvantage by providing facilities, and fun, creative educational activities, for young people to discover their talents and enhance their skills and sense of self. Young people ages 8-13 attend Kids Kabin to do woodwork, pottery, painting, fine arts, crafts, cooking, and gardening. It also runs residential trips, day outings, and camping expeditions. Kids Kabin operates on a drop-in basis; young people come and go as they choose. This project is looking for volunteers who: have an interest in the arts; enjoy working with youth; are enthusiastic about providing healthy alternatives to the disadvantaged; and would enjoy joining in the mission of the Assumption Sisters.
Our volunteers live 5 minutes from Kids Kabins. Also, volunteers attend two spiritual enrichment gatherings in Kensington with other young adults during the year, plus many other outings in the country!
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LITHUANIA
(Female) volunteers live in the house of the community of the Sisters with other young women (students or young professionals), who form the Samaritan community. They work in the Assumption school as teaching assistants in French, English, or German; take part in extracurricular activities, and in the pastoral care of the pupils; offer assistance to students with disabilities.
The Sisters offer personal and spiritual accompaniment (in French, English, or Spanish). The school’s educational staff is used to welcoming and helping foreign volunteers. A French-speaking or English-speaking teacher accompanies them and coordinates their work. Volunteers can, as much as they wish to, participate in the life of the Samaritan community, which includes weekly meetings and three annual weekends. This gives the volunteer the opportunity to create friendships and thus get to know the culture better.
PHILIPPINES
There are a number of youth and community-based projects available in the Philippines. Our main partner in the Philippines is the AMA (Associate Missionaries of the Assumption) Volunteer Program which recruits Filipino and foreign young people willing to offer a year or two of service in teaching or apostolic ministries throughout the country. The volunteers form communities of young people committed to each member's freedom, love, growth, and service of the poor and the young.
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The projects vary from year to year. Recent American and British volunteers have worked in primary and secondary schools, teaching English at the Assumptionist Langauge Center, an early childhood development center, an organization that works with street children, rebuilding projects after the typhoons of 2009, and a L'Arche community. Volunteers wishing to work in the Philippines must hold a bachelor's degree (in any discipline) and must be prepared to live with other volunteers in community houses. Given the cultural differences, they must also have a high degree of maturity and flexibility.
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