Volunteer Opportunities

Put Your Faith Into Action

Discover meaningful ways to serve alongside communities around the world. Maryknoll volunteer opportunities invite you to deepen your faith, experience another culture, and participate in mission through service, reflection, and accompaniment.

Whether you are looking for a guided mission experience or a longer-term opportunity to live and serve abroad, there is a path for you.

Find the Right Experience for You

Mission Trips

Experience mission through service, faith, and cultural immersion.

Maryknoll Mission Trips offer individuals and groups opportunities to encounter communities, learn from local cultures, deepen their understanding of global mission, and reflect on their own call to service.

Programs may include mission immersion experiences, pilgrimages, retreats, and opportunities to learn directly from Maryknoll missioners and the communities they serve.

Live, serve, and become part of a community abroad.

Short-Term Volunteer Opportunities

For those seeking a deeper and more extended experience, Maryknoll’s short-term volunteer programs provide opportunities to live and serve alongside local communities while developing a greater understanding of culture, faith, and mission.

Children Tutoring (Bolivia)

Bolivia

Experience life and mission in Bolivia while serving alongside local communities and Maryknoll partners.

Explore Bolivia

(Taiwan) Inclusive Education and Early Intervention

Taiwan

Discover Taiwan through service, cultural exchange, community, and Maryknoll’s GAP Volunteer Program.

Explore Taiwan

More Than a Trip

Maryknoll volunteer experiences are opportunities to encounter people, cultures, and perspectives that can transform the way you see the world.

Through service and accompaniment, volunteers are invited to:

  • Build meaningful relationships with local communities
  • Experience another culture firsthand
  • Grow in faith and understanding
  • Learn about Maryknoll’s global mission
  • Carry the experience of mission into their lives at home

ABOUT MARYKNOLL

We are a Catholic Society of priests and brothers based in the United States. We are dedicated to missionary work in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the United States. Additionally, we animate Catholics in the United States to follow their own baptismal call to share God’s compassion and love with the poor, the sick, and all those in need.

OUR GENERAL COUNCIL

L-R Tom O'Brien, Ray Finch, Joe Everson, Russ Feldmeier

(Fr. Lance P. Nadeau, Fr. James M. Lynch, Fr. Timothy O. Kilkelly, Fr. Juan Montes Zúñiga)

The Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers is overseen by our General Council, led by Superior General Rev. Lance P. Nadeau, M.M.

OUR FOUNDERS

L-R Tom O'Brien, Ray Finch, Joe Everson, Russ Feldmeier

(Our Co-Founders Father Price and Father Walsh)

PLACES WE SERVE

EVANGELIZATION, PARISHES, AND PROJECTS

USA

STORIES OF MISSION

(Africa) Education and Formation of African Clergy

The Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers Africa Region will provide tuition assistance to African clergy, male and female religious at institutes of higher education or specialized training. Read More

Stories of Our Global Mission

The calling of a lifetime

The life of a Maryknoll missioner is challenging, fulfilling, and deeply rewarding. Follow your baptismal call to mission by sharing God’s compassion with the poor, the sick, and people most in need.