Skip to main content
Home
Rockhurst Small Logo
light blue background Search Icon
mobile menu
  • ADMISSIONS
  • ACADEMICS
  • CAMPUS LIFE
  • ALUMNI
  • ATHLETICS
  • ABOUT
  • Apply
  • Visit
  • Give
  • Apply
  • Visit
  • Give

2013 Service Immersion Trip

  • Apply
  • Visit
  • Give

  • Admissions
  • Academics
  • Campus Life
  • Alumni
  • Athletics
  • About
Saturday, March 2, 2013

College students often plan on going to exotic locations during spring break, but not many of them plan on going with their university’s president.

On Saturday, 12 Rockhurst University students, as well as Rockhurst University President, the Rev. Thomas B. Curran, Clyde Wendel, vice chairman of UMB Bank and former vice chairman of Rockhurst University’s board of trustees, and biology professor Mindy Walker, Ph.D., will be boarding a plane headed to Belize as part of the University’s annual service immersion trips.

I go in with a very open mind,” Wendel said.  “I’m very excited about it. It’s a unique opportunity and it’s something I’ve been thinking about doing for a few years. I wanted to experience this as part of my own faith.”

As the temperature continues to remain frigid in the Midwest, more than 50 Rockhurst University students, faculty and staff members, will be embarking on these national and international service trips to places such as Guatemala, El Salvador and the Dominican Republic . Students will also be participating in service trips to Joplin, Mo. and West Virginia.

“Our presence with one another in another country is integral to our Ignatian enterprise in higher education,” Fr. Curran said. “The world is our home.”

While on site, the students and their companions, alongside the local people, will do a number of different tasks including, helping with water shortages, rebuilding various sites and planting coffee.

 “What the eyes see the heart feels,” said Bill Kriege, assistant director of campus ministry, about the need for the service trips. “There is certainly plenty of poverty and opportunity to serve right in our area, and we do that, but sometimes removing ourselves from the everyday normal can awaken in us something new.”

Recent Headlines

  • Past Headlines
Rockhurst Bell Tower
Rockhurst University Logo
1100 Rockhurst Road | Kansas City, MO 64110
816-501-4000 | info@rockhurst.edu
1100 Rockhurst Road
Kansas City, MO 64110
816-501-4000
info@rockhurst.edu
Instagram    Facebook    Twitter    Youtube

RESOURCES

University Catalog
Bookstore
Calendar
Campus Map
Consumer Information
Directory
Library
Photo Albums
Web Portal

I WANT TO:

Apply
Visit
Give
Find a Job
Hire a Hawk
Reserve Event Space
Contact Rockhurst

SCHOOLS

College of Arts and Sciences
College of Business, Influence, and Information Analysis
Saint Luke's™ College of Nursing and Health Sciences
Facebook Twitter Youtube Instagram
Kansas City's Jesuit University
© Rockhurst University | Privacy Notice | Web Accessibility
© Rockhurst University
Privacy Notice | Web Accessibility