Campus Ministry

CAMPUS MINISTRY

Campus Ministry offers students numerous opportunities to take time from their busy academic and social lives for prayer and reflection. Campus Ministry offers numerous service trips, immersion trips, and opportunities to be involved within the walls of The Hall.

Service Trips

Habitat for Humanity (below left)– Each summer eight students from NDP and eight students from CHC join together to help a community on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Students help with a Habitat for Humanity build and work in a migrant worker community in Exmore, VA. During reflections, there are discussions on an array of social justice issues.

Lasallian Youth Gathering - The Lasallian Youth Assembly is an annual gathering of over 120 students and teachers from many of the Lasallian High Schools in the Eastern United States. Participants gathered on the campus of Manhattan College in Riverdale, New York for a week centered around the Lasallian concepts of Faith, Service, and Community. Students work at service sites, participate in and lead prayer services, are given talks by speakers, participate in discussions about service and justice, and build community among other schools by spending time with one another.

Opportunities Within the Walls of The Hall

Adopt-a-Family (above) – Our students helped make the holidays merrier for needy families throughout the Baltimore area by way of our annual Adopt-A-Family drive. Our students, faculty, and staff “adopted” 62 families and ensured each family member received a minimum of four gifts.

Food Drive – Our annual Thanksgiving Food Drive brought in a record 19,263 items. These donations went to local organizations including Paul’s Place, Our Daily Bread, Beans and Bread, Women’s Housing Coalition, and Artesanos Don Bosco, which all work to serve the hungry and homeless in Baltimore.

Immersion Trips

Baltimore, Maryland The Baltimore Service Immersion trip offers an opportunity for students to gain greater insight into the realities and concerns of people who are materially poor and/or experiencing homelessness in Baltimore. Our trip taps into the educational disparities that exist within the city of Baltimore and how that has a lasting effect in the community.

Browning, Montana Students experience a part of the country that is both scenic and unique while living on a Native American reservation. This immersion trip is an established program with a strict timeline including prayer services, reflective/processing time, service in a middle school, and presentations on Native American life.

Camden, New Jersey Calvert Hall partners with the Romero Center providing a serviceimmersion retreat experience in one of America’s most impoverished cities. The Romero Center provides meals, evening reflection experiences, and speakers. Additionally, the Romero Center sets up service opportunities for our students. In the past these opportunities have included Habitat for Humanity builds, working at nursing homes, serving meals at homeless shelters, etc.

Port Au Prince, Haiti (above right) Calvert Hall travels to College Saint Jean Baptist de La Salle in the Cazeau section of Port au Prince, Haiti. Students run a camp for elementary school children throughout the day and in the afternoon students visit different parts of the city, meeting different locals in an effort to understand some of the issues and problems Haiti faces as well as to discover the deep-seated joy and hospitality of the Haitian people. This trip challenges students to examine third-world poverty and explore poverty in their own lives.

Benque Viejo, Belize Calvert Hall travels to the small border town of Benque Viejo del Carmen, Belize. Through a connection with SOLT Ministries (Society of Our Lady of the Holy Trinity), Calvert Hall students take part in a weeklong service trip. The trip consists of structured prayer, reflection time, work within primary schools in the area, participation in a local Belizean high school youth group, and learning firsthand about the struggles of a developing country. The students also learn about the

history of Belize and visit the Mayan Ruins of Xunantunich.