Jesuit Service & Justice

3600 Miles Apart but the Same Mission

Poverty terrorizes people and families in America.  People struggle to provide food for children, make payments on a house, or simply keep running water in their systems.  Poverty has become an increasingly prominent issue and affects people's everyday lives. However,...

Alaska: an Astounding Adventure

Nearly scraping the Arctic circle and only miles away from Russia, sunny skies and frigid temperatures characterize, Bethel, a conglomeration of towns in southwest Alaska which service about 75 running fishing villages that range up to 4 or 5...

2017 Waco Poverty Immersion Trip

Comfortable clothes, a warm bed, an air-conditioned home, filling food, and thirst-quenching drinks. All commodities the Jesuit junior group who trekked to Waco for an eye-opening weekend full of sweat, hunger, and discomfort did not have. Earlier this year...

Class of 2017: Senior Convocation and Special Games

On May 12, 2017, the glistening eyes of the of the freshmen, sophomores, and juniors watched the Seniors march into the Terry Center as the entire student body of 2017 gathered for the last time. After the Seniors marched...

Supporting the Brave

A solidarity to help others is an ideal found in the Jesuit profile. Every single student embodies this profile, and this can be seen through the noble actions the school takes part of. For example, this past March, both...

The Feed One Event: A Drive to Remember

Jesuit students, huddled around tables, filling bags with the sustenance of life, prepared 87,000 meals for hungry children in Zambia. 87,000 of anything is an enormous amount, but to have 87,000 meals, packaged by hand in one day, is...

Jesuit Students Write to Inmates in new Pen-Pal Program

Those who are convicted and sent to prison don't always have a chance to talk to people outside of the penitentiary, making for a lonely time inside. There are those who may not find any reason to comfort those in prison,...

Medical Immersion Trip: Guatemala 2017

The trip where students are forced to carry 49 pounds of (medical) drugs through foreign airports. Where students spend hours driving up and down one-lane roads on the sides of mountains, fearing each bump as if the truck is...

Jesuit Blood Drive

Young and old, healthy and sick, we all have it. Blood is an essential part of the human body, though it's easy to take it for granted. Unfortunately, the sick are not always able to produce their own blood cells...