Answering Christ's Call to Serve
Each year, more than 80 JSerra students travel to our sister parish in Piura, Peru, during Thanksgiving and Easter breaks to serve a community facing extreme poverty.
Through the mission of Fr. Joe Uhen and Santisimo Sacramento Parish, students encounter Christ in others while helping support life-changing ministries, including a hospice center and a trade school that bring hope and opportunity to those in need.
Faith in Action
Our student missionaries build homes and schools, visit orphanages, provide homecare visits, and assemble and delivered food care packages to the poorest of the poor in the adjacent villages to parish. Mission trips are regularly spoken of as the highlight of many JSerra students’ careers, and provide up to 60-70 hours of Christian service per trip.
This last April trip here was my eighth with JSerra. We built houses, delivered food, did cleanup after the floods from a month ago, taught English, and helped in the fields. We are truly blessed to be able to visit and thank Padre Jose for this opportunity to interact and help the Peruvian people.
Jackie B., Parent
