De Colores Trip for Faculty & Staff, June 7-9, 2013
Join other faculty and staff on a De Colores Service Immersion Trip to Tijuana, Mexico, leaving at 3 pm on Friday, June 7 and returning around 6 pm on Sunday, June 9, 2013. This is a great opportunity to put a human face to the immigration issue and experience the challenges and graces on the Mexican side of the border.
AGENDA FOR THE WEEKEND
We will follow an agenda similar to the student trips:
Friday: Arrive in San Diego for opening activities and dinner. We will stay at a chain hotel with two people per room.
Saturday: We will cross the border into Tijuana, Mexico and do some construction work on a small health clinic and school. We will have lunch with the community.
In the afternoon, we will be at a hospitality house for those recently deported. We will eat dinner with them.
In the evening, we will do some arts and crafts with the El Florido community children. We will stay in a simple hotel in Tijuana for the night with two people per room.
Sunday: We will spend the morning at an orphanage and have a Catholic Mass there. We will have lunch and then head to Friendship Park (see links for a recent video and articles from the last student trip below). We hope to return to LMU by 6 pm on Sunday.
COST: $40 per person, includes all transportation, meals, and lodging. Payment will be due within 3 days of receiving confirmation that you are registered for the trip. That payment can be delivered to Mike Shawver in the Center for Ignatian Spirituality.
REGISTRATION: The trip is limited to the first 15 faculty and staff to register on a first come, first served basis. Once we have 15, all others will be put on a wait list. The deadline to register is Friday, May 24, 2013.
REGISTER NOW BY CLICKING HERE
SPONSORS: Co-sponsored by Mission & Ministry: Campus Ministry, the Center for Ignatian Spirituality, and the Office of the VP for Mission and Ministry.
QUESTIONS or MORE INFO: Contact Patrick Furlong in Campus Ministry at 8-5390 or email him or you can contact Mike Shawver in the Center for Ignatian Spirituality at 8-3019 or email him.
For more info on the student trips, click here to visit the De Colores website on the Campus Ministry page.
DE COLORES VIDEOS
Learn more about De Colores, watch our videos by visiting the links below.
Introduction to De Colores - Part I
Introduction to De Colores Part II
And the newest ROAR network video
FRIENDSHIP PARK
The most recent student trip members captured this video of a father hugging his 5 year old daughter for the first time at Friendship Park.
Patrick Furlong, wrote the article, "Holes in the Fence: the Human Story Behind Immigration Reform", published by the Huffington Post, on the above experience at Friendship Park on April 30, 2013.
Carly Barnhill, a student on the trip, wrote the article, "De Colores Participants See Family Reunite" in the Loyolan on May 2, 2013.