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Before beginning service hours, students should understand the difference between Direct Service and Indirect Service. Sophomore and Juniors must do Direct Service.
Direct Service goes beyond simply helping an organization. It involves meaningful encounters such as:
relationships and accompaniment
conversation and hospitality
direct engagement and solidarity
hands-on care and restoration of creation
Direct Service
Direct Service
Direct Service means personally and directly serving people experiencing real human need through meaningful interaction and relationship—or directly caring for God's creation through hands-on environmental service.
Examples include playing games with the elderly in a retirement community, going through a food pantry with clients, tutoring younger students, clearing out invasive species, and cleaning up trash in a forest preserve
Indirect Service
Indirect Service
Indirect Service means helping meet a need without necessarily interacting with the person experiencing it.
Examples include packing food at Feed My Starving Children or other organizations, shelving books at a library, making cards or cat toys, behind-the-scenes work
Note: For their Gospel Service requirements of Direct Service, sophomore and junior students should not submit these or other kinds of indirect service. It will not be approved.
Not Eligible for Gospel Service
Not Eligible for Gospel Service
These activities are not eligible for Gospel Service as they do not foster relationship with the Dear Neighbor or do not work with a non-profit organization.
Focus on or include fundraising
Advertizing, asking for, collecting or making donations of food, clothing, etc.
Helping with club teams
Handing out flyers
Doing yardwork
Getting paid at a camp
Babysitting
Helping at mass or worship service
Servicing at neighborhood associations
Benefit oneself, one's own family, or a for-profit organization
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