Religious Life Newsletter: Volume 8, Fall 2005, Issue 1
SU CASA Beliz
WEEKLY ACTIVITIES
Sundays:
9am-Catholic Service
11am-Chapel Service
11:30am-Catholic Service
3:00 pm-Gospel Choir, Isaacs Auditorium
6pm-Catholic Service
6:45pm-Catholic Campus Ministries
8pm-Hillel
Mondays:
9:15pm-Habitat for Humanity
9:15pm-Acts 29
10pm-LSM
Tuesdays:
10pm-Tuesday Night Watch
Wednesdays:
8pm-Handbell Choir
Thursdays:
5:30pm-Chapel Council
9pm-InterVarsity Christian Fellowship
Fridays:
Saturdays:
Joe Julian '07 works at a medical clinic in Beliz.
Kelly Moyer '08, Liz Neagle '07 and Nathaniel Wolfgang-Price '05 work on a laundromat.
The SU CASA Beliz Team in the newly constructed laundromat.
SU CASA, the Susquehanna University Central America Service Adventure, expanded this summer with the introduction of a new trip to Belize. Thirteen members of the SU community spent five days in the Belizean jungle and five on a Caribbean island working and worshipping with local residents. The venture also included an excursion to ancient Mayan ruins at Xunantunich on the Guatemalan border, visits to a local orphanage and regional hospital, and a snorkeling encounter with dozens of nurse sharks and stingrays.
While the medical team, lead by April Black, RN, Director of SU's Health Center, and Jim Chlebowski, MD, conducted free clinics for local residents, the construction team, lead by SU Chaplain Mark Radecke, helped build a laundry facility and paint a local school. When completed, the "laundromat" will eliminate the need for residents to make a five mile round trip to wash their clothes in a river.
Funded in part by a grant from Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, the service-learning trip included presentations on Mayan faith and culture, Belizean history and ethnic diversity. Plans are underway for a similar venture in May-June of 2006. For information, contact Chaplain Radecke or Ms. Black.
