Alternative Spring Break

Change your life!  Spend your spring break serving others in need and learning about the issues that keep them in a cycle of injustice.  Students fundraise for the trip by selling parking spaces in our Newman lot before and during Mizzou's home football games.  Because of this, students only have to spend $75 for the entire week! 

 

The 2009 trip will be amazing!  Two trips will be offered March 22-28, 2009:  One to a Navajo Reservation in New Mexico and one to Appalachia through the Christian Appalachian Project.  Sign up for ASB trips is now closed.  For more information, contact Amber Lock, ASB Coordinator. 

 

Here are highlights from past trips!

                

ASB 2008--St. Pius V Parish, Chicago

Students spent an eye-opening week learning about immigration, affordable housing, day laborers, and gang pressures facing students in the area.  The group learned about several ministries that the parish family has developed to serve those facing difficulty. 

 

   

ASB 2007--Hurricane Katrina Relief, New Orleans

Donning Tyvex suits and respirator masks, students spent a week serving the senior citizens of New Orleans.  Working with Catholic Charities, they gutted homes by removing unsalvageable belongings, sheetrock, and siding.  They also found a moment to eat some delicious beignets! 

 

Other past trips include a service trip to Selma, Alabama to do home repairs and a Border Experience to El Paso, TX/Juarez, Mexico.