What is WVC?
The Westmoreland Volunteer Corps (WVC) is a one-year domestic volunteer service program. It offers five young adults, typically recent college graduates, opportunities to work in direct social service through internships with Washington area service agencies. Individual spiritual growth is encouraged as volunteers share a simple lifestyle in an intentional community. WVC was founded in Bethesda, MD, by Westmoreland Congregational United Church of Christ in 1985 as an extension of the church’s statement of purpose: “Our ideal is a church of the open mind, the aspiring soul, and the social vision, which ever seeks to express, in all ways of life, the mind and spirit of Jesus . . . and to labor together for the betterment of humankind . . .” Since its beginning, the Westmoreland Volunteer Corps has placed 100 volunteers in a wide variety of social service agencies.
