The AMEN St. Louis Mission Experience
Goals:
For our urban mission experiences, our goal for all our groups is to:
EDUCATE guests about the issues behind the service project itself - systemic poverty, economic injustice, racism, segregation and others. We want your trip to not just be about "projects", but to really understand why the organizations that you are volunteering with are needed - in our community and in communities everywhere.
ENGAGE guests with the community around AMEN St. Louis by focusing on sustained volunteer partnerships with agencies that serve our neighborhood and the neighborhoods immediately surrounding ours.
EMPOWER guests to leave AMEN St. Louis with a deeper understanding of what it means to serve with compassion, justice and love, and how they can work to transform their own communities back home through service.
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
- Margaret Mead