Christian Service

The deadlines for completing this requirement are as follows:

• 80 hours must be approved by April 30^th of senior year
• Students may choose when they earn their 80 service hours. There is not a yearly requirement. However, service records will be reviewed when students are considered for leadership opportunities such as NHS, the Peru mission trip, and Caritas Christi. It is therefore recommended that students earn 20 hours per school year to be considered current.
• When students complete a service project, the hours must be submitted for verification within a limited timeframe. If service hours are not submitted before the verification deadline, the credit will expire.
  • Each January 15^th, hours from the previous summer or semester must be entered into x2VOL. Hours from the previous summer or semester entered after January 15^th will not be approved.
  • Second semester hours must be entered no later than April 30^th. Hours entered after April 30^th from the second semester will not be approved.
• There is no limit to the number of Christian Service hours students may complete in a school year. 

• Before logging in, you must register by clicking "JOIN" in the top right-hand corner of the x2VOL. Once you click JOIN, fill out all the information needed. You must use your JSerra email to register. You may add a personal email only as a secondary email. You may create your own password. Be sure to record this somewhere where you will not forget.
• After joining x2VOL, you may log in. Your username is your JSerra e-mail and password you chose when you filled out the information in the JOIN section. Once you have logged in, on the top left-hand side, click on "Opportunities and Projects." There should be a tab that appears directly underneath that says "Activity Log."
• Click on Activity Log, which will lead you to the next page. Then click on "Create New," next to Personal Projects.
• Fill out the online form for each service event.
• You will need to add a brief description of the type of service you did. Make sure to describe in detail who you served and how you served them. Hours will be denied if the description is not clear.
• Once you scroll down, please provide the supervisor contact, including their phone number and email address. In order to be verified for your hours, you MUST provide the supervisor's e-mail information. Hours will be denied if an email is not provided.
• You will then need to provide the amount of hours you served in this particular project and approximately the date in which you completed your service.
• You will also need to implement a brief reflection about the experience you gathered from you service and the ways in which you saw Christ in the selfless, sacrificial act of service you completed.
• Make sure to apply the service hours to the Christian Service Goal, by checking the circle next to this option. If you are in NHS, CSF, or Lion Ambassadors, you will see similar circles to check. You must clarify that your service is for Christian Service hours. If no circle is checked, your submission will not show up in our inbox.
• Lastly, you must confirm that your submission is true and accurate by checking the square box at the bottom.
• Once this information is all covered, scroll to the bottom and push "Submit."

General Rule of Thumb

The Christian Service requirement directs students towards helping people in need, such as the homeless, hungry, sick, disabled, elderly, children, etc. Use this rule of thumb when determining if your project would qualify as a "Christian Service Project" in the truest sense of the word:

• Does it support a person in a dire financial, medical, or social situation?
• Does it put me in direct contact with the poor, sick, disabled, elderly, or service organization doing direct work for these persons?