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Current Service Trips
Fall
Break Trips 2007
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ORGANIZATION/LEADERS/ADVISORS
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DESCRIPTION |
Building Houses
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Habitat
for Humanity
Location: Oskaloosa, IA
Student Leaders: Randon Ruggles ‘09,
Duane Trimble ‘09
Advisor: Sarah Frye
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This trip
will be working with the Oskaloosa Chapter of Habitat for Humanity
to help reconstruct a home. |
Homelessness/
Hunger
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Latreia
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Student Leaders: Alana Deutschmann ‘08,
Kristin Carlson ‘09
Advisor: Dr. Timothy Ewest
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This trip will work with Latreia
and participate in a variety of service activities such as working
at homeless shelters, food banks, youth centers and Feed My
Starving Children. View our blog! |
Building
Houses
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Habitat
for Humanity
Location: Ottumwa, IA
Student Leaders: Sarah Dentlinger ‘09,
Jill Wiebke, ‘09
Advisor: TBD
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This trip will be working
with the Ottumwa Chapter of Habitat for Humanity to help reconstruct
a home. |
Winter
Break Trips 2008
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ORGANIZATION/LEADERS/ADVISORS
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DESCRIPTION |
| Gay,
Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Issues |
GLBT
Center of Denver
Location: Denver, Colo.
Student Leaders: Laura Baker ‘09 and
Matt Ollendick ‘08
Advisor: Chris Knudson ‘01, ITS
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Participants
will be working with the GLBT Center of Denver that is the state
of Colorado’s only nonprofit community center for Colorado’s
gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender population. This center
offers support services and social activities. |
Homelessness/
Poverty
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St.
Francis Center
Location: Denver, Colo.
Student Leaders: Ellie Rogaczewski ‘09
and Lalaina Rabary ‘10
Advisor: Rev. Nelson Bock, Wartburg West
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St. Francis Center (SFC) is
a refuge for men and women who are homeless in the metro Denver
area. Participants on this trip will be working with the organization
to provide services enabling people to fulfill their basic needs
in order to transition out of a life of homelessness. |
| Poverty |
Catholic
Urban Program Society of St. Vincent
Location: East St. Louis, Ill.
Student Leaders: Sarah Witte ’08, Nate
Palmolea ‘09, and Tina Irvin ‘08
Advisor: Kathy Book, Education
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This service
trip will allow students to serve the people of East St. Louis
in a variety of ways. Our days will include many activities
such as cleaning up different areas of the community, helping
children in after school programs, serving dinner at soup
kitchens, and different reflection activities each night.
We will be staying at a center right in the heart of East
St. Louis, so students will be able to fully experience the
people and culture. Students on this trip will be given the
chance to examine poverty and see its causes and effects right
here in the Midwest. This trip will give students a chance
to experience life in an urban area completely different from
Waverly. We will be meeting and interacting with many different
people from single men, to families, to young children; who
are all struggling with poverty. When students return from
this trip, they will have a better understanding of the lives
of people in poverty and the overall problem of poverty in
the United States. |
| Gulf Coast Disaster
Relief |
Lutheran
Disaster Response (LDR)
Location: New Orleans
Student Leaders: Amy Tucker ‘10, Alicia Henry
‘08, Heather Glass ‘10
Advisor: Mackenzie Grondahl, CCE & Kevin Grondahl, Iowa Campus Compact
Kevin Grondahl, Iowa Campus Compact
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This trip will work with the
Lutheran Disaster Response in the Gulf Coast. We will be helping
with the rebuilding process in the region that was destroyed
by Hurricane Katrina. The type of work we will be doing involves
but is not limited to dry walling, general clean-up, painting,
roofing, and general construction. We are seeking participants
with and without previous service trip experience. Skills are
preferred, but anyone willing to learn is welcome to serve. |
| Gulf
Coast Disaster Relief |
Lutheran
Social Services Disaster Relief
Location: Camp Biloxi, Biloxi, Miss.
Student Leaders: Seth Drury ’09, Lisa
Nowels ‘08, and Paige Mundy-Young ‘08
Advisor: Susan Higdon,
ITS |
This trip will
be working through Camp Biloxi to help with the rebuilding process
in the southern Mississippi region. The type of work we will
be doing involves but is not limited to dry walling, general
clean-up, painting, roofing, and general construction. We are
seeking participants with and without previous service trip
experience. Skills are preferred, but anyone willing to learn
is welcome to serve. View alumni reflections (PDF) |
| Camp Maintenance |
Ceta
Canyon Camp
Location: Happy, Texas
Student Leaders: Matt Wahl ‘09 and Jessi
Carver ‘08
Advisor: Kara Trebil ‘06, Residential
Life |
This trip will be working at
Ceta Canyon Camp to help maintain its facilities used to put
on camps for persons with disabilities. |
| Poverty |
Crisis
Ministries and Operation
Home
Location: Charleston, SC
Student Leaders: Jeree Bloom ‘08 and
Britt Panuska ‘08
Advisors: Lis Erickson ’97, University
of Iowa graduate student and Gary Wipperman ’76, ITS |
(STALC trip:
participants will need to be active members of the student alumni
council) Participants will be working with a variety of organizations
that work to alleviate poverty in the greater Charleston area.
Service activities might include preparing and serving food
at a soup kitchen, packaging and distributing food at the local
food bank, interacting with guests at a local homeless shelter
and much more. |
| Homelessness |
Central
City Lutheran Mission (CCLM)
Location: San Bernardino, Calif.
Student Leaders: Morgan Pahls ‘10, Cree
Xiong ‘08, and Nate Maldonado ‘11
Advisor: Sandra Hansen ’00, Iowa Campus
Compact |
This trip will volunteer at
CCLM's homeless shelter, health clinic, after school program,
teen power program, food bank, daily worship activities, kinship
care center, etc. Participants will be financially responsible
for the cost of an airline ticket. |
| Music
as Service |
Circle
Tour of Music
Location: All over the Midwest
Student Leaders: Aaron Schutte ‘09 and
Randon Ruggles ‘09
Advisors: Michael Jensen ’96, Music and
Hans Pregler, Production Manager |
Wanted: Musicians,
technical staff, and anyone with a passion for music and service.
Join the band as we tour around the Midwest for the first ever
Circle of Music Tour. We plan to connect music, faith, and service
as we share our gifts and are impacted by the people around
us. We will grow as a band and discover how music is universal
as we join many diverse communities including a school, soup
kitchen, jail, homeless shelter, churches, and various other
locations. |
| HIV/AIDS |
Project
Open Hand
Location:
Atlanta, GA
Student Leaders: Laura Blair ‘08, Emily
Fairchild ‘08, and Katherine Knutsen ‘08
Advisor: Renee Sedlacek, CCE |
This service trip group will
be serving the non-profit organization Project Open Hand in
suburban Atlanta, Georgia. Project Open Hand seeks "to
provide freshly cooked meals and nutrition services to people
with symptomatic HIV/AIDS, homebound seniors and individuals
with other critical illnesses or disabilities." It will
offer service while simultaneously developing a sense of humility
through this service. Moreover, the collaboration between the
Project Open Hand employees and Wartburg students provides an
ideal situation to nurture relationships with unique individuals. |
| Refugees |
RRISA
Location: Atlanta, GA
Student Leaders: Luke Kroeger’ 09 and
Mara Groom ‘09
Advisor: Carla Coates, Pathways
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This service trip will allow
participants to face the issue of refugee resettlement head-on
by working directly with individuals seeking the services and
care of IRC and RRISA. Students will be able to work with refugees
to foster further developing English skills through ESL classes
and share their technical skills by instructing others in the
use of computers. In addition, participants will have the opportunity
to sort through donations and stock the clothing closet. |
Poverty/
Homelessness |
Youth
Services Opportuniteis Project
Location: New York, NY
Student Leaders: Shantel Leary ‘08 and
Susie McArdle ‘08
Advisor: Ben Stadler-Ammon, Admissions |
This trip will be working with
the organization Youth Service Opportunities Project (YSOP).
YSOP is committed to helping young people become part of the
solution to societal problems by showing them how even their
smallest actions can make a difference in the lives of others.
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Tour Week 2008
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ORGANIZATION/LEADERS/ADVISORS |
DESCRIPTION |
Homelessness/Poverty
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Wartburg West
Location: Denver, Colo.
Student Leader: Alicia Brissette ‘08 & Stephanie Meyer ‘08
Advisor: Rev. Nelson Bock, Wartburg West & Brock Holman, UNI Grad Intern
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This Tour Week trip will provide a unique opportunity for students to explore Denver and Wartburg West while serving the homeless. Students will be working with a variety of organizations, including Metro CareRing, the largest food pantry in Denver; St. Francis Center, a daytime shelter for the homeless; Warren Village, a transitional housing and empowerment program for homeless single parents with children; and Christ's Body Ministries, a daytime hospitality center that offers Sunday evening service for the homeless. |
| Building Houses |
Service Hunters
Location: Rosebud, South Dakota
Student Leaders: Naiya Panchal ‘10
Advisor: Renee Sedlacek, Center for Community Engagement |
We are looking for students with a sense of adventure to join us on a trip, dubbed the "Service Hunters". We will be working with Habitat for Humanity, but like last year’s trip the destination will remain a secret until we arrive so we can emphasize a willingness to do service regardless of the location. This service trip will be working with Habitat for Humanity on a Lakota Indian Reservation. Work will consist of sanding, painting, trim work, laying carpet and more. In addition, several small excursions have been planned for exploring the Lakota culture. |
| Gulf Coast Disaster Relief |
Lutheran Disaster Response
Location: New Orleans, LA
Student Leaders: Jessi Carver ’08 & Matt Wahl ‘09
Advisor: Kara Trebil ’06, Residential Life |
Marking our 7th trip to New Orleans (11th to the gulf coast since Hurricane Katrina), this trip will be helping with the rebuilding process. The type of work we will be doing involves but is not limited to dry walling, general clean-up, painting, roofing, and general construction. Skills are preferred, but anyone willing to learn is welcome to join. A special focus of this trip will be the involvement of alumni from previous Gulf Coast trips. |
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