This is City Year

Here's a little taste of why I came to San Antonio and how I will be serving this next year.  As a City Year Corps. team member, I will work full-time as a tutor, mentor, and role model to help students stay on track – and get back on track – to graduate. I will be in schools, running after-school programs, and leading and developing youth leadership programs and vacation camps. Other responsibilities involve cleaning up communities, rebuilding neighborhoods, breaking down social barriers, developing young leaders, and fostering active citizenship. As a near-peer and a friend, I am hoping to uniquely help improve student attendance, behavior, coursework, and overall confidence (which research confirms are all indicators of a student's likelihood of graduating from high school). This school-based service is at the heart of City Year’s “Whole School, Whole Child” approach to helping students and schools succeed.


There is clearly an undeniable need for an organization like City Year all across San Antonio. While I am coming alongside this service program to help in their heroic objectives for at risk youth, my highest aspiration serving in this way lies in the open doors such an experience will create to shine the greatest hope of all: Christ’s love and His reality.

I believe that God is up to something incredible in San Antonio. While many of His purposes for me in this mission field are yet to be revealed, I know without a doubt that the Lord is asking me to be fully present and available for how He is going to move in this city. He has graciously prepared me to bring all of the knowledge, gifts, and experiences He has given me to this mission. Perhaps the biggest thing He is asking of me in San Antonio is my solid obedience to His voice, moment by moment, as He moves and directs my steps each day. What an amazing blessing to get to see it all unfold for His glory!