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Team Mission Continues Takes the Marine Corps Marathon In Stride

October 26, 2015

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This was the weekend it all paid off: the blisters, worn out shoes, early morning runs and aching bodies.

Nearly 50 runners pledged to support The Missions Continues this year by running the Marine Corps Marathon in Washington–exactly 47 if you count a runner seven months pregnant.

Our fastest runner clocked in at 3:15:11. Yet many on the team were there for the journey itself, and not necessarily the finish. The goal was to raise funds to fuel our programs, and we surpassed last year’s total: $53,716 raised to help veterans strengthen and inspire the communities they serve.

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Delta Class 2015 Moves Out to Serve Their Communities

October 23, 2015

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This past weekend, 126 veterans converged in Dallas-Ft. Worth for our last orientation class of the year, beginning their six month fellowships or taking on leadership roles in our service platoons. Delta Class 2015 assembled for workshops, invigorating talks, breakout sessions. They learned about what they can expect during their volunteer service, how to tell their story–and in between, had plenty of time to meet like-minded leaders who pledged to serve their communities.

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“Service is contagious…”

September 29, 2015

Members of Washington, DC Service Platoons deployed to Democracy Prep, a charter school in the Congress Heights neighborhood, on September 11, 2015. The project brought together veterans and community volunteers to serve alongside students, creating moments of inspiration like the one captured in the video above.

Get involved: join us at an upcoming service project in a community near you.

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To Truly Serve Together, The Walls Must Come Down

September 30, 2015
by Jessica Peter

Jessica addresses volunteers at a service project, July 2015.
Jessica addresses volunteers at a service project, July 2015.

I’ve worked professionally with volunteers for a decade now. I meet a lot of people. Hundreds. Some I see every day, and others every now and then. Many others I just see once and never again.

It’s my job to give them missions, find tasks that suit their talents, work alongside them, even become their friends. They are all just people looking for a little fulfillment or a sense of purpose. They serve, they get warm fuzzies, and they carry on with their lives.

Now I work for The Mission Continues. The bulk of our volunteers are veterans, and some of them are figuring out what’s next. Which doesn’t sound too different than most people I know. You don’t have to return from a battlefield or leave the military to be uncertain about what the future will bring.

But when I tell people that I help put veterans in a position to improve their communities, I typically get two types of responses.

The first? Hero worship.

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