Christendom College students and staff will travel abroad next week, offering their time and energy to serve others through the college’s annual spring break mission trips. This year, students will travel to the Dominican Republic and Honduras, welcoming the chance to deepen their faith and bring Christ’s love to those in need.
For years, Christendom students have taken part in spring break mission trips, taking advantage of their week away from campus to serve communities around the world. Past destinations have included Malta, Peru, Honduras, Colorado, and Paris — each trip an extension of the college’s mission to “restore all things in Christ” by reaching out to the less fortunate.
This year, 22 students and three staff members 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 build a chapel during their time there.
In Honduras, three students and three staff members will join the daily lives of the locals, living and sharing meals with them, as well as evangelizing in remote mountain villages alongside around 70 other students and missionaries from around the country.
The spring break trips follow a Christmas break mission trip to Mexico, where Christendom students and staff built homes for impoverished families, continuing the college’s commitment to corporal works of mercy.
These mission trips offer students a range of opportunities to serve others through corporal and spiritual works of mercy during Lent. Christendom exists to educate the lay apostolate and “restore all things in Christ,” and the spring break mission trips are a natural extension of that mission, as students bring Christ to the less fortunate throughout the world.
Contributed by Bridget Palm ’28.