Past Experiences

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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