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JSerra Student Missionaries Give Thanks in Peru

It took 22 hours to travel over 4,000 miles from Southern California to Lima, Peru, and then onto the village of Piura, but for the student missionaries of JSerra's annual Fall Mission Trip, the arduous journey was worth the experience.

During Thanksgiving break, 38 students performed a multitude of services for the residents of Piura and its local parish, Santisimo Sacramento Parish. Founded by Fr. Joe Uhen over 25 years ago, the Parish provides necessary services to this extremely impoverished area such as a hospice center, a shelter for abused women and their children, a trade school, and a drug rehabilitation center.

Despite the grueling weather, which averaged 82 degrees and peaked at 91 degrees, the student missionaries enjoyed acts of service, attending Mass daily, and interacting with the community. In just 6 days, they built 4 homes and added an addition to a previously constructed home; delivered food and donated clothing on multiple days; worked at local schools including a deaf kindergarten; poured cement and painted a homeless shelter for Venezuelan refugees; planted trees; cleaned a medical clinic and a girls orphanage; built a chapel add-on to a church; volunteered with physical therapy groups; served Eucharistic Ministry to the elderly; held a Thanksgiving pageant with the schools; and, finally, hosted a Christmas party for the families sponsored by JSerra families.

A new group of student missionaries will travel to Piura over spring break in April 2020. For more information on JSerra Mission Trips, visit jserra.org/peru.