Serving Stories – Serve the City International
Episodes
Serve Like a Superhero: Translating Values into Action!
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On the mean streets of Brussels... where people without homes live lives of isolation, and migrants looking for more often find little... a few leader...
Serving SHORT Story: From Lunch Bags to Lifelong Lessons
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone can serve... and that includes children! Andrea Peterson, leader of the Brussels Street Kindness project, shares how taking children out of t...
Serve Like a Superhero: Values-In-Action Leadership
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"You have the chance to become part of something bigger than yourself!" This is what Professor Xavier told his team of X-Men. And it is what...
Serving SHORT Stories: Serving is a Team Sport!
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
While at the Amsterdam City Exchange, Nate Kohler from Serve the City Paris did not just to make friends and exchange best practices in volunteering. ...
Serving SHORT Stories: The Power of the Pancake
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you've ever been to Amsterdam, you know how they love their pancakes... and their bikes. In this episode we hear from Willem Dieleman, a volunt...
Serve Like a Superhero: Join the Justice League!
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When mighty heroes, each actively doing good in their own domains, unite as a force for the world... that's when amazing things happen! We see it ...
Serving SHORT Stories: Moving the Needle
23 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In these two little stories about creating beauty in the surroundings of people in need, Carlton Deal, the founder of Serve the City, emphasizes how s...
Serve Like a Superhero: United for the World
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When a multinational corporation and a values-based volunteering non-profit team up to use their unique superpowers to benefit the world... then they ...
Serving SHORT Stories: From Privilege to Purpose
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Giving time to volunteering can change the course of your life! That's what happened to Nicolo Sgreva, the representative for the UPS Foundation i...
Serve Like a Superhero: United for Our City!
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"When someone acquires great power, the use or misuse of that power is everything." These are the words of Professor Xavier to his X-Men, mu...
Serving SHORT Stories: A Celebration of Dignity
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This heartwarming story comes from our very first podcast episode, set at a Community Dinner in Lisbon in April 2019. A young volunteer came up with a...
Creating Community in Lisbon
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Serve the City Portugal is well-known for its Community Dinners, events where volunteers eat a three-course meal at well-set tables alongside marginal...
Serving SHORT Stories: Giving Back to Move Forward
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Early on, Serve the City had to learn the lesson that people in need were also people with something to give! Shannon Deal, the producer of Serving St...
Serve Like a Superhero: Transform Suffering to Serving
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone knows that Batman's personal trauma—seeing his parents murdered in front of him—was what motivated him to become a superhero. And we ...
Serving SHORT Stories: The Kindness of Strangers
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes when a person is stuck, they will accept help from strangers even when they refuse it from their family. Ronan Coffey of Serve the City Irel...
Serve Like a Superhero: Sparking Hope for a New Start!
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"This looks like a job for Superman!" When someone is stuck in an impossible situation they can't get out of alone, that's when Supe...
Serving SHORT Stories: De-junking Your Heart
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We usually think of volunteering as doing something which benefits others. But in this SHORT Story from Melinda Means of the STC Berlin team, we are r...
Serve like a Superhero: New Heroes Rising!
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“I never thought I would be able to do this stuff—but I can. Anyone can wear the mask.” This is what Miles Morales, the young Spiderman mentored...
Serving SHORT Stories: When You Hear the Doorbell Ring
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When you hear the doorbell ring... you may be called to help save someone's life. In our previous episode we met chaplain Annie Bolger, from Serve...
Serve Like a Superhero: Activists, Assemble!
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When the Avengers assemble as a team, their united superpowers far surpass what each hero could do alone! And when Serve the City partners with other ...
Serving SHORT Stories: These Mugs are Green
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Everybody—really everybody—can make a difference when it comes to the environment. In this story from Serve the City Lisbon, Andre Mar and Austin ...
Serve Like a Superhero: Friendly Neighbourhood Heroes
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Parker was just an ordinary guy from Queens till he was bit by a radioactive spider. But the abilities that gave him—combined with compassion—...
Serving SHORT Stories: The Three Little Bigs
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Small things done with love make a BIG difference! In this story from Serve the City Berlin leader Christine Thumm, we hear about three little acts of...
What You Can See Out Wenceslas' Window
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
While many of our Christmas carols are about getting cozy with loved ones by the fire, "Good King Wenceslas" is about going out in the snow to deliver...
Serving SHORT Stories: A Shoebox Full of Love
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ever wonder if the small things we do to serve others at Christmas make a difference? Carlton Deal, founder of Serve the City, tells a story of discov...
Serve like a Superhero: Gotta Clean Up This City!
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A superhero always strives to clean up their city... but these volunteers are taking that task literally! Join Serving Stories host Ani Deal as she l...
Serving SHORT Stories: Sharing Kindness, One Stone at a Time
28 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Serving SHORT Stories are mini-episodes that you can devour quickly and share with others! In this episode, Shan from STC Gold Coast in Australia, sha...
Serve Like a Superhero: Just Keep On Going!
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When Wonder Woman was told it was impossible to cross No-Man's-Land, she said, "But I'M going to do it!" Today we meet some wonder women from Serve th...
Serving SHORT Stories: Just Start With a Card
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Serving SHORT Stories are mini-episodes that you can devour quickly and share with others! In this episode, Ingeborg from STC Maastricht in the Nether...
Serve like a Superhero: Stand Up to Villains!
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Every superhero has to contend with supervillains who menace their city. As volunteers, we too must stand up to villains such as poverty and instabili...
Serving SHORT Stories: All We Have Because We Did NOT Have the Gym
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
First Serving Short Stories episode! Carlton Deal, Serve the City founder, tells how a setback on the very first STC event turned into a catalyst that...
Serve like a Superhero: What's Your Origin Story?
19 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"Every superhero has to go through a moment when they have to examine and choose. Will they choose a path that Will I choose a path that follows my ow...
Hope: Making Connections in Maastricht
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Loneliness is one of the top mental health issues in cities—one touching people of all ages and backgrounds. Serve the City Maastricht, responding t...
Hope: Everyone's Got Talent!
06 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Who doesn't hope to be seen for their talents rather than their limitations? When four teenage girls from Amsterdam embark on a voyage of voluntee...
Love: Crossing the Line in Kosovo
16 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There's a line in every city that separates... and in Mitrovica, Kosovo, that line is a bridge. Serbs stay on one side and ethnic Albanians on the...
Love: Kindness Wherever You Look!
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A Big Volunteer Day gives the chance to spread love around a city! Every month, Serve the City Peninsula volunteers further multiple projects in a dis...
Courage: Dreaming New Dreams in the Big City
18 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The two most multicultural cities in the world are Brussels and Dubai (Belgium, UAE). People move there dreaming of opportunity... but what happens if...
Courage: A Fight for Haiti's Future
06 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Violence in Haiti has again become world news. And in the midst of chaos, the Serve the City Haiti team continues to serve with courage, addressing th...
Meet the Serving Stories Team!
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bonus episode! Ever wondered about the people behind the list of names as the end of our podcast? Our Serving Stories production team introduce themse...
Compassion: A Hundred Thousand Welcomes
07 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cead mile failte: an Irish phrase that means "a hundred thousand welcomes." That is what Lucy Alexia Dube wants to offer new migrant parents...
Compassion: Kindness to Ukraine, Continued
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Let's combat compassion fatigue! On the 2nd anniversary of the Ukraine war, Nikita and Artur, two refugees in Krakow, recount their stories—and ...
Compassion: Nourishing Kindness in Paris
09 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Safi Ebrahim and Peter DeWitt, of Serve the City Paris, lay out for us how compassion can change the trajectory of the life of an immigrant. And Safi ...
Respect: In the Stockings of St. Nicholas
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What if giving gifts to those in need could boost self-respect instead of creating dependency? Saint Nicholas understood this when he gave money anony...
Respect: No Longer Frozen in Shame
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Krakow, Poland, as in many other big cities around the world, respectable people pretend the homeless person they pass on the street is invisible. ...
Humility: Mopping Mayors and Stumbling Stones
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s pretty easy to volunteer when you feel like the task you are doing is big and important. But when the job seems mundane and messy—maybe even ...
Humility: Short People Got Good Reason to Serve
02 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Turns out: Randy Newman had it wrong. Short people have lots of good reasons to live! In this episode, focused on volunteering with Humility, we ask: ...
Humility: Small People doing Small Things
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Small people doing small things together can make a big difference." Meet Lucy, the 11 year old daughter of the Serve the City Baltimore di...
Serving Stories – Episode 6 – Kindness Starts With Me
17 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For the year 2020, Serve the City chose as their theme, "Kindness Starts with Me." Little did they know how the events of this year would draw on the ...
COVID Kindness – 03 – Compassion, Courage and Coronavirus
26 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It's been a more than a good idea to stay inside during the COVID outbreak in Brussels— it's the law. But some residents have found that there are s...
COVID Kindness – 02 – Do What You Do Best
27 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As we revisit the first four cities in Season 1 — Lisbon, Chesapeake, Berlin and Tallinn — we find out that agility is everything. In each city, w...
COVID Kindness – 01 – When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
18 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Serving Stories is a podcast from Serve the City. We travel around the world to gather stories of volunteers doing small things together that make a b...
Serving Stories – Episode 5 – Brussels, BE – Part 2
30 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode (part 2 of 2), a simple project serving breakfast to migrants in a park turns into a city-wide humanitarian effort. And in the process...
COVID Kindness – Kindness Will Not Be Cancelled
23 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kindness will not be cancelled! Events are cancelled, meetings are cancelled, but Serve the City believes that kindness is open for business and the s...
Serving Stories – Episode 5 – Brussels, BE – Part 1
26 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode (part one of two), we travel to Brussels, Belgium to see how a simple, early-morning project—serving breakfast to irregular migrants...
Serving Stories – Episode 4 – Tallinn, EE
29 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we travel to Tallinn, Estonia to meet secret agents of a serving revolution: the Serve the City Tallinn Blackshirts. No, they are not...
Serving Stories – Episode 03 Bonus – Berlin, DE
13 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This month Serving Stories travels to Berlin, Germany. Berlin is known for being the techno capital of the world, the site of a dance revolution. But ...
Serving Stories – Episode 03 – Berlin, DE
22 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This month Serving Stories travels to Berlin, Germany. Berlin is known for being the techno capital of the world, the site of a dance revolution. But ...
Serving Stories – Episode 02 – Chesapeake, VA, USA
25 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
If you drive around Chesapeake, a suburban city on the eastern coast of Virginia (USA), you will find yourself constantly crossing bridges. But bridge...
Serving Stories – Episode 01 – Lisbon, Portugal
23 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This month we embark for Lisbon, Portugal, where we will hear from the people behind their remarkable Community Dinners...
Serving Stories – Episode 00 – Promo
22 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Serving Stories is a podcast from Serve the City. We travel around the world to gather stories of volunteers doing small things together that make a b...