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Social justice mission opportunities
Numerous social work students through the years have participated in Northwestern College’s campus ministry and short-term missions programs, learning as they serve in the Orange City community and around the world.
Students can sign up to tutor Hispanic adults and children in Orange City through Enlaces en Christo Hispanic ministry. They can also join campus ministry teams that work in area homeless shelters, soup kitchens and prisons.
Spring Service Project teams use the 10 days of spring break to travel across the U.S. and internationally to work in urban communities, developing countries and in areas affected by natural disasters. Recent teams worked with youth in Belfast, Ireland; Native Americans in Apache, Oklahoma; and low-income families in rural Mississippi. Other teams assisted with hurricane relief and clean-up in Louisiana and Florida.
Participants in Northwestern’s Summer of Service program spend six to 10 weeks in the summer, serving with ministries in nations all over the world. Students have worked at youth camps in Ireland, Romania and Ukraine, with disabled youth in India, and at Mother Teresa’s Home for the Dying and the Destitute in Calcutta. They've visited with people living in slums, cared for children orphaned by AIDS, and served food to refugees. Recent SOS participants have also served in orphanages in Brazil, Jamaica and South Africa, and with other social service ministries in Ecuador, England, France, Ghana, Guatemala, Greece, Honduras, Japan, Malawi, Peru, Russia and Uganda.
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