Christmas on the Hill

Decenber 4, 2009

Beginning in September, students, faculty and staff begin planning Spring Hill College's annual Christmas celebration. The evening includes a Christmas dinner/party complete with carols, for the campus community.

Christmas on the Hill centers on a campus-wide outreach effort coordinated through the Catholic Social Services Refugee Resettlement Office in Mobile. A list of items to support the families is sent out from the refugee center to students faculty and staff.  Families in the past have come from Bosnia, Cuba, Vietnam, Iran, The Sudan, Serbia, The Congo and Sierra Leone.

Money raised by the college community is used to buy household and personal items to ease the resettlement process for the families. March for Life

March for Life

January 22-24, 2010

The SHC Pro Life club sends a delegation of students to Washington, DC for the annual March for Life. The students attend the march with nearly 1 million pro-life advocates from around the country. The trip is planned by the club, under the leadership of their president.

Mardi Gras Break Immersion Trips

February 13-21, 2010

During Mardi Gras Break, five groups of 8-12 students and faculty/staff will  travel to international work sites in Belize, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic and El Salvador.

Students serve others building, painting, working in schools and day care centers and doing whatever is needed in the area they are visiting.  The experience challenges students to grow in their personal faith through immersion into the lives of the marginalized of the world. Funds for the trip are raised through end of the semester exam-a-grams, student fund-raising and through the generosity of donors and sponsors of Campus Ministry activities.

School of the Americas Protest and Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice

November 20-22, 2009

Each year a group of students, faculty and staff from Spring Hill travel to Columbus, GA to join in solidarity with other Jesuit institutions at the Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice. The teach-in begins on Friday evening and culminates in an unforgettable Liturgy on Saturday evening attended by thousands in the Columbus Convention Center.

The weekend concludes with a silent protest outside Fort Benning which honors the six Jesuit martyrs and their co-workers murdered in El Salvador and the thousands of innocent people who were victims of crimes committed by graduates of the U.S. Army training school.

Ignatian Solidarity Network Newsletter

Students for Justice

Students for Justice will be reactivated this year with new student involvement and a new justice focus.Faith/Justice Links

Catholic Social Teaching and Social Justice
http://www.osjspm.org/

Legislative and Social Action
http://www.usccb.org/faithfulcitizenship/index.htm
http://www.networklobby.org
http://www.nccbuscc.org/sdwp/placeatthetable/advocacy.htm
http://www.paxchristiusa.org/
http://www.ignatiansolidarity.net/isn_view/servlet/resourcelist.ResourceList?rsListID=0

Poverty, Homelessness, and Hunger
http://www.usccb.org/cchd/povertyusa/index.htm
http://www.hungerbanquet.org
http://www.bread.org/
http://www.oxfamamerica.org

School of the Americas Watch
http://www.soaw.org/new/

Other Social Justice Interest Websites
http://www.catholicworker.org/
http://www.vatican.va/