YAV Year

As a part of my year with YAV, I am expected to fundraise $4,000 to support my living expenses. This goes to support the general program and allows me to serve at my partner organization as a volunteer. If you're interested at all in donating to my year, please click the button below. Any little bit helps. :)

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Allison Blackwell

Jul 27
6 min

YAV Year

See You Later

Hello everyone! I did the thing that I promised myself that I wouldn’t do but that I deep down probably knew was inevitable….I got caught...

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Tables and Returns: Who is Invited to the Feast?

Allison Blackwell

Jan 31
19 min

YAV Year

Tables and Returns: Who is Invited to the Feast?

In my grand plan for how my blog posts were going to go, this was going to be the one on feasting and sharing of food and table. It still...

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Allison Blackwell

Nov 19, 2022
25 min

YAV Year

Under the Bare Eye of God

I feel close to God when I experience joy and wonder or when I can help others experience joy and wonder. That latter often comes in the...

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Allison Blackwell

Oct 17, 2022
15 min

YAV Year

That South(west)ern Hospitality

How should I sum up what my life has been like for the past month and a half? I can only think to say that it has been wild…perhaps even...

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Allison Blackwell

Aug 10, 2022
12 min

YAV Year

My Faith Journey To Date

For me, Christianity has always been a choice. I didn’t grow up in the church. Occasionally, my mom signed my brother and I up for VBS...

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Allison Blackwell

Jun 30, 2022
6 min

YAV Year

So We Begin

The evening before I graduated college, my brother, Kyle, and I sat on the bench swings outside my dorm and talked of the daunting: our...

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