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“The mission trip to Haiti most definitely changed my life. God showed me the beauty of community through the other students and missionaries on the trip. I was also graced with the opportunity to be able to learn how to love deeper. I was filled with love for the people of Haiti, and realized all the more how much everyone deserves to be loved like that.”

- FOCUS mission trip participant

 

January 12, 2010, marked a cataclysmic and devastating earthquake which would change the history of Haiti forever. With 230,000 people dead, 300,000 injured and 1,000,000 made homeless by the earthquake, the people of Haiti are in desperate need of your help.

Even before the earthquake, Haiti held the title of the poorest country in the western hemisphere. On this mission you will have the opportunity to work with the community of the Scalabrini Fathers and some of their apostolates, which includes visiting and working with the people of some small villages within Port-au-Prince. The Missionaries of Charity in Delmas, a neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, have an orphanage that houses the starving children of the area, and you may have the opportunity to care for and love them.

Other projects could include working in a tiny mountain village with the homeless and poor.  Water and basic services are scarce and we would find ourselves serving in their small school, building homes, or even working in their medical facilities.

There is little doubt that Haiti needs your help! Please consider joining this mission and making a difference in Haiti today!

Spring Break #1

  • Dates:  March 2nd – 9th
  • Trip Director: Spring Break: Danielle McKenna
  • Mission Co-Leaders: Tori Vissat
  • Amount to Fundraise: $1,700*

Spring Break #2

  • Dates: March 16th – 23rd
  • Trip Director: Frank Magnetico
  • Mission Co-Leaders: Emily Weber, Mike Antonacci, Leanne Tracy
  • Amount to Fundraise: $1,700*

Summer

COMBINED MISSION AND ST. THOMAS FORMATION PROGRAM (BENEDICT XVI INSTITUTE)

  • Dates: June 14th – July 3rd*
  • Trip Director: Nick Lee
  • Mission Co-Leaders: TBD
  • Amount to Fundraise: $2,900*

 

* Dates and amount to fundraise subject to change

  1. Each FOCUS Missions participant has the opportunity to fundraise the entire cost of their mission trip.Consider that fundraising allows people who may not have the opportunity to travel on a mission trip to participate in this essential work through you. In another sense, “some give by going while others go by giving.” Allowing others to support us through their financial commitments and prayers is essential to the success of FOCUS Missions!
  2. You will be contacted by your personal fundraising coach soon after you have been accepted on a mission trip to train and mentor you in each step along the way.
  3. Please feel free to contact us at any time by phone or email with your fundraising questions.

“The mission trip to Haiti most definitely changed my life. God showed me the beauty of community through the other students and missionaries on the trip. I was also graced with the opportunity to be able to learn how to love deeper. I was filled with love for the people of Haiti, and realized all the more how much everyone deserves to be loved like that.”

- FOCUS mission trip participant