The New Wine Press October 2018 | Page 10

2018 Precious Blood Volunteers Stephen Dougherty, Lina Guerro, Brooke Buth, and Koby Buth at Gaspar Mission House, Kansas City Missouri 2018-2019 Precious Blood Volunteers by Tim Deveney, Precious Blood Volunteers Director Lina Guerrero Lina will serve at Precious Blood Ministry of Reconciliation (pbmr) in Chicago, Illinois and will live with Dayton Precious Blood sisters in the Bridgeport neighborhood. She was born and raised in Austin, Texas, and then graduated from Mount St. Mary University in Emmitsburg, Maryland 8 • The New Wine Press • October 2018 with degrees in international studies and Spanish. She spent the last year serving as part of the Jesuit Volunteer Corps in western Missouri with the Migrant Farmworkers Assistance Fund. She has committed to serving as a Precious Blood Volunteer for a full year. Why do you want to volunteer? “After being a Jesuit Volunteer this past year, I felt a call to do another year of service because I felt like I wasn’t ‘done’ yet. There is still so much work to be done, systems to tackle, and things to learn about people for me to not try to volunteer again.”