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
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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.”