At Hope College in Holland, MI., students sleep on sidewalks to be the first in line to volunteer for one of the 23 service projects that will take them throughout the United States as well as Canada, the Caribbean and Latin America. More than 300 students will be participating in 21 mission trips organized by the college's Campus Ministries Office, working in soup kitchens, serving in shelters and helping children, the elderly and the homeless. In addition, about 30 students will be traveling to Jamaica to work on buildings on the campus of the Caribbean Christian Center for the Deaf in Montego Bay, and 18 students will be going to North Carolina with the college's chapter of Habitat for Humanity during the break, March 16-25. Contact Barb Osburn, director of campus ministries at 616-395-7829 or at [email protected].
At Harding University in Searcy, AR, approximately 500 students will lead week-long mission trips to places throughout the United States and to other countries such as Honduras, Mexico and Jamaica. Some students will travel to El Salvador to provide hurricane relief, while others work with inner-city children. Nursing students have the opportunity to gain valuable medical experience in a missions setting in Central America. Contact Daniel Cherry at 501-279-4273.
Eight students and two faculty advisors at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pa are taking their Alternative Spring Break trip to Delhi, India this year. Departing on March 2 and returning March 12, the volunteers will work daily at a service site with the Missionaries of Charity, the Mother of Teresa sisters. The site houses mentally and physically disabled people who have been rescued from the streets. They will also serve as goodwill ambassadors to a group of 30 Indian students from a technology school who will come to America this August to study engineering at Wilkes. The student volunteers will develop relationships with their future classmates before they begin school, making them feel comfortable about coming to Wilkes University and Wilkes-Barre. Contact Mary Matunis, director of campus interfaith/volunteer services at 570-408-5904.
Students at the University of Denver have the opportunity to spend spring break to do community service in the small, desert community of El Tepetate, Mexico, where they will stay with local families while completing a community renovation project. Contact Glenn Fee, director of the community action program, at 303-871-4281 or [email protected].
Five students from Susquehanna University's Habitat for Humanity chapter in Selinsgrove, Pa will travel to Seminole County in Florida to participate in the Habitat for Humanity Collegiate Challenge. Other students will be traveling to Mountain TOP (Tennessee Outreach Program) in the Cumberland Mountains of Southcentral Tennessee where they will work with the people of the community. Contact University Chaplain Mark Radecke at 570-372-4220 or [email protected].
A group of 11 students and a faculty advisor from Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa will spend their mid-term break in Florida on a service trip, which is one of eight such service trips scheduled during the break, which began on Friday, Feb. 24 and will run through March 3. Four groups will be at Habitat for Humanity sites, assisting with housing projects, and the remaining four groups will assist with urban and inner city issues in Denver, Baltimore, East St. Louis and New Orleans. Wartburg's first international service trip will be to Mexico City to help rebuild a church that was damaged by earthquake several years ago.
Volunteers at Roanoke College in Salem, VA will be building houses for Habitat for Humanity in Columbia, SC. This is Roanoke's fifteenth year involved in the program in South Carolina. Contact Rev. Paul Hendrickson, college chaplain, at 540-387-3740.
Nine students from Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, Pa will travel to Jacksonville, FL to take part in a Habitat for Humanity project during the school's spring break, March 23-April 2. The group is part of the school's GIVE program.
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