Spring Mission Trips

Church Based & Community Projects Week (15 Students)
The St. Augustine Church & Catholic Student Center Based & Community Projects Week will be based out of Hurley Hall. Students will spend the week together in community & service. They will be going out into the community doing service in the morning hours. After lunch, they will head back to the church and work on a project that will be designated for that week. In the evening they will gather together for reflection and fun activities. Price includes food, lodging, t-shirt. and transportation. Cost: &150.

The Christian Appalachian Project—Kentucky (10 Students)
For years, St. A's has sent students to Northern Kentucky to participate in CAP's spring WorkFest to build houses for impoverished families.


The Christian Appalachian Project (CAP) works toward sustainable economic improvement in Appalachia and its volunteers live and work in the community year round. WorkFest is an opportunity for college students to help them in their mission in helping the people of Appalachia help themselves out of poverty.

Ten students from St. A's drive up and stay in cabins.  We work alongside and form friendships with students from 6 to 10 other colleges, skilled construction volunteers for the week and the families whose homes we are fixing. 

WorkFest is designed to expose college students both to the culture of Appalachia (religion, music, simplicity of life) and to the astounding level poverty.

It is our hope that the students will take what they learned about the Gospel, about social justice and about combating poverty and allow it to transform their everyday lives after the return to Florida.

Guatemala(30 Students)
Vision: A Latin America without extreme poverty, where youth is committed to confronting the challenges of its country and where every family has decent housing and real opportunities to improve their quality of life.
Mission: Un Techo Para Mi País (UTPMP) strives to improve the quality of life of impoverished families through the construction of transitional houses and the implementation of social inclusion programs. UTPMP denounces the precarious reality of the slums in which millions of people live in Latin America. UTPMP works to involve the general pub-lic in the building of a more united, inclusive, poverty-free continent. Price includes transportation, airfare, food & lodging for 8 days & 7 nights. Cost: $950


PAST TRIPS

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Eighteen students from St. A's  traveled to Belize, Central America with the campus minister and a priest in March 2010. During our trip, we painted two Catholic schools.  At another school we brought school supplies and spent half a day singing and playing with the kids. At an orphanage we brought gifts and donations to the children. At one mass we witnessed children receive their First Holy Communion. At an inner-city park we shared and evangelized with children. We also enjoyed fellowship with another mission team from North Carolina, a Baptist YoungLife group.

In March 2009, 15 students from St. A’s  traveled to Saltillo, Mexico with the campus minister and priest. The trip was called Awakening 2009 because Saltillo is a direct encounter with desperate poverty and suffering. The people of the ranchos and barrios are not rich in money or power, but they are rich in faith. As we gathered daily for Mass in Spanish and share prayer in English, the faith of both Mexicans and Americans was strengthened. We traveled with Fr. Benny, one priest to 45,000 Catholics. We celebrated mass, evangelized and distributed donations we brought. An eye-opening experience, we talked to people at an immigration center who were trying to get into the U.S.