Students, along with alumni and faculty, will travel outside the United States this week for the college’s spring break mission trips. Traveling to the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Honduras, the students will spend their spring breaks giving to others and truly living out the mission of Christendom College.
Christendom has been sending students on mission trips for years, with students leaving Christendom’s Front Royal, Virginia, campus for a week in the spring to travel across the globe in service of others. In past years, students have traveled to Malta, Peru, Honduras, Colorado, the Bronx, and elsewhere, bringing Christendom’s mission to “restore all things in Christ” out into the culture at large in order to help the less fortunate.
Spring break is typically seen as a time for relaxation and vacations, but many Christendom students use this time to instead help the less fortunate. This year, 25 students and alumni of the college will travel to the Dominican Republic to partner with the Diocese of Arlington and serve at their mission in Banica. Continuing the work of founding faculty member Dr. Raymond O’Herron, who started the annual trip, students will engage in a construction project in the area while also spending time with residents.
19 students, alumni, and staff will also travel to Honduras, where they will spend their time working with the poor in the mountainous regions and evangelizing in the country.
Finally, 32 students, along with members of the college’s faculty, will travel to Guadalajara, Mexico, for the first time, working with the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter’s (FSSP) mission there to build homes, visit orphanages, and work in schools.
These mission trips will provide students with a variety of opportunities to perform spiritual works of mercy, helping them grow while they assist others. Christendom exists to educate the lay apostolate and “restore all things in Christ.” The spring break mission trips are a natural extension of that mission, as students bring Christ to the less fortunate throughout the world.