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2014 Spring Break Service Trip

2014 Spring Break Service Trip. With the Franciscans for the Poor in Cincinnati Ohio. Service Often Leads to Smiles.

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2014 Spring Break Service Trip

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  1. 2014 Spring BreakService Trip With the Franciscans for the Poor in Cincinnati Ohio

  2. Service Often Leads to Smiles • The goal of the week is to provide all participants with a culturally diverse experience with times for group and individual prayer activity and a chance to live a simple lifestyle.

  3. Sample Schedule for Mission Trip • Sunday: 4:30pm Arrival – Welcome!! • 5:30-7:00pm Dinner, Tour of Tau House, Orientation • 7:00pm Get Settled In • 11:00pm Lights Out • Monday: 7:00am Self-Serve Breakfast • 8:00am Morning Launch in the Tau House Chapel* • 8:45am Depart for Worksites • 9:00am-3:30pm Participants at Worksites • 3:30pm-4:30pm Free Time • 4:30pm Dinner Prep for Some; Continued Free Time for Others • 6:00pm Community Dinner • 7:00pm Evening Activity • 8:00pm Evening Prayer/Reflection in Chapel • 11:00pm Lights Out • Tuesday-Thursday: 7:00am-4:30pm same as above • Friday: 7:00am Self-Serve Breakfast • 8:00am Pay-It-Forward! Prep/Clean House for Next Group • 10:00am Closing Prayer and Send Off • 11:00am Departure – Safe Travels!

  4. Transportation • 47 passenger bus • Space • Comfort • Games

  5. Housing and Food • We will be staying at the Tau House • Sharing Rooms with 2-4 other people • Linens are provided • Separated by floor, men and women • Food will be provided by the Sisters while staying at the Tau House • While traveling you will be responsible for your own food and meal purchases.

  6. Where will we be serving? • Sites are varied and depend on current need: • Bethany house-helps homeless and low-income women and children • Canticle Café-for the homeless and working poor • Cincinnati Housing Partners-House construction and rehab, sometimes yard work • Drop Inn Center-largest homeless shelter • Franciscan Terrace-nursing home • Our Daily Bread, Over-the-Rhine Kitchen and Walnut Hills Kitchen-soup kitchens • These are just a few of the possible options

  7. Expectations • Simple Living • We promise you will have everything you need and some of the things you want • Please limit use of cell phones and other electronics in communion with the Sister’s way of simple living. • Community Living • Participants are asked to help with daily chores • Many hands make little work

  8. What to Bring? • Challenge yourself to pack “simply” regarding clothing • Yet be prepared since weather is unpredictable • Clothing should be reflective of positive values • Please no short shorts, spaghetti straps, low cut necklines, muscle shirts or belly shirt • No shirts with suggestive, vulgar/violent language or inappropriate designs • Need closed-toed shoes at worksites • Shirts must be worn at all times • Musical instruments are welcome, but the owner’s responsibility

  9. Questions? See Emilio Alvarez in Murphy 340 Email him at ebalvarez@viterbo.edu Call him at 608-796-3805

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