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Summer Service: Fun in the Sun
Campus Ministry offers many service opportunities including a Habitat for Humanity build in Virginia along with students from NDP.
From July 15-20, Calvert Hall and NDP students will travel to Virginia to participate in Habitat for Humanity. During this week of service, students will build a migrant worker community and reflect on social justice issues. The days will be spent doing service and visiting migrant worker communities.
During the same week, there will be the Lasallian Youth Summer Assembly in New York. While there, over 120 students from Lasallian schools will perform service, attend speakers, discuss service, justice, and faith in order to for relationships and build a community with other Lasallian schools.
Current sophomore Justin Morgan has attended multiple immersion trips in the past: "I would highly recommend applying for an immersion trip. It is a great experience and a way to build relationships within our community and other communities. It is through other people that we can find more about ourselves, and I am very thankful that Calvert Hall gives us these opportunities.” He most recently attended the Miami immersion trip, and he told me that “Any one of the immersion trips is an amazing experience.” The upcoming immersion trips are great opportunities to grow as a man of intellect, through discussion, integrity, through service, and faith, through prayer.
One of the directors of Campus Ministry, Mr. Bobak, has also been on several immersion trips, including trips to Camden and Montana. At Camden, the group stayed at the Romero Center and worked nearby service sites. At Montana, they went to the Blackfeet Reservation and helped in a Lasallian school. He told me that when he was in Camden he was able to “experience and think about the day to day life of someone who is impoverished in a cycle of poverty.” He and everyone who attended that trip were able to gain experience that will forever change how they see people on a day to day basis, from friends and family to strangers, because they know what they have been given. He also told me that, during his trip to Montana, he was able to understand “the importance of education and the family for everyone. " The people that needed help were able to get said help through time spent volunteering. Not only are they helped, but everyone who attended learned important lessons through their help in the classroom. Mr. Bobak told me that immersion trips “can wake you up to a new and more beautiful reality.”
There are immersion trips every year, during the summer and throughout the school year. These are good examples of how students can have an effect on those that are marginalized and require the help of others. Sign up for the next immersion trip available now!
