Ignacio Companions
2011-2012 Faith-Based Service-Immersion Trips
Campus Ministry’s Ignacio Companions (IC) program offers a variety of Faith-Based Service-Immersion Trips focused on challenging students to live more fully the LMU Mission and to grow in their relationship with God. These trips provide a transforming experience in which participants’ faith and understanding of the world intersects and grows. Through immersion in different cultures and opportunities to be in service with and for local communities, participants discover the deep connection between justice and faith. Participation in the IC program engages students in taking a deeper look at their lives, their faith, and their educational experience. The program challenges them to become individuals more fully alive.
Overall Trip Details
All IC Trips:
- Are connected with a Jesuit Institution, Jesuit Apostolic Work, or Ignatian Inspired Religious Organization.
- Provide an opportunity for Ignatian reflection and spiritual examination and exploration while immersed in new cultural context.
- Provide an opportunity to explore the intersection of faith and justice as integral to our being a people fully alive.
- Provide an opportunity for a faith based experience with our host community.
- Provide an opportunity for participants to engage in a partnership and in solidarity with our host community.
IC Program Timeline
September 19: IC Student Leader Applications Due
September 20-27: IC Student Leader Interviews
September 28: IC Student Leader Notification
September 29, Convo hour: IC Student Leader Lunch and Meeting
October 3: IC Student Participant Applications Due
October 4-11: IC Student Participant Interviews
October 12: IC Student Participant Notification
October 19: IC Student Participant 10% Deposit Due
December 4: IC Mass and Reception
The Trips
Campus Ministry offers several Faith-Based Service-Immersion Trips with the hope of assisting students to truly “Belong, Believe, and Become” during their time at LMU and beyond. We strive through these unique trips to help students see the world with new eyes and to explore their faith. Participants will seek integration of their experience through prayer, intentional theological reflection rooted in social analysis and scripture, an ongoing commitment to direct acts of service and justice when they return, and a life-style of solidarity with/and for those in need. These trip experiences are meant to foster a deeper understanding of the world and themselves. These opportunities are one practical way of embodying LMU’s holistic educational goal – academically, spiritually, and emotionally.
Our immersion trips strive to broaden student participants’ awareness of social justice, the promotion of justice, and global solidarity through direct community engagement. Students are immersed in new cultural contexts with unique experiences that broaden social awareness, promote personal faith development, and inspire a commitment to be in service with and for others. See the variety of trip offerings below:
- Argentina (Christmas Break: December 27, 2011 - January 8, 2012/Student Cost: $1,495)
- East LA/Mexico (Christmas Break: December 16 -18, 2011/December 31, 2011 - January 7, 2012/Student Cost: $995)
- Jamaica (Spring Break: February 25 – March 4, 2012/Student Cost: $995)
- El Salvador (Spring Break: February 24 – March 4, 2012/Student Cost: $995)
Apply
STUDENT LEADER APPLICATION FOR ALL IC TRIPS: Link to the leader applications below. Once submitted you will be contacted about an interview. Leader Applications due by Monday, September 19, 2011.
Please note that if you choose to apply to be a leader you have the option of having your application considered for you to be a participant without further submission of addition application.
IC Leader Applications are due by September 19 for ALL IC Trips.
PARTICIPANT APPLICATION FOR ALL IC TRIPS: Link to the participant application below. Once submitted you will be contacted for an interview.
IC Participant Applications are due on October 3 for ALL IC Trips.
Trip costs are subsidized through Campus Ministry. All costs include airfare and/or ground transportation, room and board, service projects, and cultural immersion experiences.
