Past Experiences
With over 24 years of adventure, education, direct service, and community, we have so much left to learn. Become a student leader to be able to submit a proposal. Connect with us via the Contact & Connect page to learn more.
2017:
Immigration & Border City Culture - El Paso, TX
Direct service partners:
La Mujer Obrera
Sacred Heart Parish
Kelly Memorial Food Pantry
Education partners:
El Paso Art Museum
Author Richard Yanez
Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center
Lydia Patterson Institute
El Paso Public Library
Mustard Seed Café
The National Border Patrol Museum
Border Network for Human Rights
Reconstruction & Rebuilding - New Orleans, LA
Direct service partners:
Lower 9 Resilient
Lowernine.org
Education partners:
Project Homecoming (housing and education)
Museum: Historic New Orleans Collection
International Human Rights - Houston, TX
Direct service partners:
Elijah Rising/ Kendelton Farms
IEDA Relief
Fort Bend Women’s Center
Houston Area Women’s Center
Education partners:
2nd Cup
Holocaust Museum
Buffalo Bayou Park & Tolerance Statues
Dominican Sisters of Houston
2016:
Immigration & Border City Culture - El Paso, TX
Direct service partners:
La Semilla
The Rescue Mission
Education Partners:
Tigua Cultural Center
El Paso Art Museum
Scott Cutler
Patterson Institute
Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center
El Paso Public Library
Mustard Seed Café
Civil Rights - Atlanta, GA
Piedmont Park
The Pride School
MLK Center
Destination Service
Spring Breakaway first started out as Destination: Service in 1996, and it was led by Reverend Beverly Jones. We transformed into Spring Breakaway in 2016 in order to be more student led and co-curricular.
2015:
Environmental Outreach (Gila Wilderness, NM)
2014:
Environmental Outreach (Gila Wilderness, NM)
Sites:
Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument
Hunger Outreach and Immigration (Tucson, AZ)
Sites:
Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona
United Nations Refugees
Tucson Samaritans
Casa Maria
Iskashitaa Refugee Network
Green Valley Samaritans
Poverty and Homelessness in America (Washington, D.C.)
Sites:
United Methodist Board of Church and Society
Georgetown, TX
Sites:
Boys and Girls Clubs
2013:
Environmental Outreach (Gila Wilderness, NM)
Sites:
Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument
Disaster Relief and Outreach (Slidell, New Orleans)
Sites:
Epworth Project
Hunger Outreach and Immigration (Tucson, AZ)
Sites:
Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona
United Nations Refugees
Tucson Samaritans
2012:
Environmental Outreach (Gila Wilderness, NM)
Sites:
Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument
New Orleans, LA
Sites:
Beacon of Hope
North Rampart Community Center
St. Anna’s Episcopal Church
Hunger Outreach and Immigration (Tucson, AZ)
Sites:
Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona
Iskashitaa Refugee Network
Tucson Samaritans
Casa Maria
Green Valley Samaritans
Habitat for Humanity
2011:
Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument (Gila Wilderness, NM)
Tierra Madre (Sunland Park, NM)
National Seminar Program, Human Trafficking (Washington, D.C.)
National Seminar Program, Human Trafficking (New York, NY)
Lower Valley Housing Corp (Horizon City, TX)
2010:
Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument (Gila Wilderness, NM)
National Seminar Program, Poverty ( Washington, D.C.)
2009:
Goodwill Inc. (Houston, TX)
Hurricane Ike Relief (Galveston, TX)
Sites:
Episcopal Diocese of TX
Hurricane Ike Relief (Orange, TX)
Sites:
UMCOR
2008:
Cornerstone Ministries (Nuevo Progreso, Mexico)
Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument (Gila Wilderness, NM)
Glide United Methodist Church (San Francisco, CA)
Martha O’Bryan Center (Nashville, TN)
Tierra Madre (Sunland Park, NM)
2007:
Cornerstone Ministries (Nuevo Progreso, Mexico)
Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument (Gila Wilderness, NM)
Glide United Methodist Church (San Francisco, CA)
Martha O’Bryan Center (Nashville, TN)
Tierra Madre (Sunland Park, NM)
2006:
Episcopal/Lutheran Hurricane Relief (Long Beach, MS)
Cornerstone Ministries (Nuevo Progreso, Mexico)
Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument (Gila Wilderness, NM)
Glide United Methodist Church (San Francisco, CA)
Martha O’Bryan Center (Nashville, TN)
Tierra Madre (Sunland Park, NM)
2005:
Project Open Hand (San Francisco, CA)
Cornerstone Ministries (Nuevo Progreso, Mexico)
Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument (Gila Wilderness, NM)
Glide United Methodist Church (San Francisco, CA)
Martha O’Bryan Center (Nashville, TN)
Tierra Madre (Sunland Park, NM)
2004:
Cornerstone Ministries (Nuevo Progreso, Mexico)
Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument (Gila Wilderness, NM)
Glide United Methodist Church (San Francisco, CA)
Martha O’Bryan Center (Nashville, TN)
Tierra Madre (Sunland Park, NM)
2003:
Heifer Project (Perryville, AR)
Cornerstone Ministries (Nuevo Progreso, Mexico)
Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument (Gila Wilderness, NM)
Glide United Methodist Church (San Francisco, CA)
Martha O’Bryan Center (Nashville, Tennessee)
2002:
Hands Together Ministries (Rio Bravo, Mexico)
M.E.D.I.C.O. (Honduras)
Cornerstone Ministries (Nuevo Progreso, Mexico)
Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument (Gila Wilderness, NM)
Glide United Methodist Church (San Francisco, CA)
Martha O’Bryan Center (Nashville, TN)
2001:
Navajo Reservation (Tohatchi, NM)
M.E.D.I.C.O. (Honduras)
Youth Service Opportunities Project (New York, NY)
Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument (Gila Wilderness, NM)
Glide United Methodist Church (San Francisco, CA)
2000:
Habitat for Humanity (Santa Fe, NM)
Four Corners Native American Ministry (Shiprock, NM)
M.E.D.I.C.O. (Honduras)
Heifer Project (Perryville, AR)
Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument (Gila Wilderness, NM)
Glide United Methodist Church (San Francisco, CA)
1999:
Habitat for Humanity (Anniston, AL)
Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument (Gila Wilderness, NM)
Urban Outreach (Atlanta, Georgia)
Operacion Hogar (Juarez, Mexico)
1998:
Habitat for Humanity (Anniston, AL)
Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument (Gila Wilderness, NM)
Center of Creative Non-Violence (Washington, D.C.)
Sager Brown UMCOR Center (Baldwin, LA)
1997:
Operacion Hogar (Juarez, Mexico)
Good Neighbor Settlement House (Brownsville, TX)
1996:
South Albuquerque Cooperative Ministry
Albuquerque, New Mexico