During their Junior year Prep students are required to complete 60 hours of Christian Service with a single non-profit agency. The primary goal of the program is to provide students with the opportunity to become intimately involved with their agency and the justice issues that their work seeks to address. Students may complete their 60 hours of service in one of two ways:

Option I
– 60 hours at an agency approved by the Assistant Director of Campus Ministry

Some suggested non-profit agencies are:

1. The Nurturing Place Jersey City, NJ. (www.yorkstreetproject.org)
2. Boys and Girls Club Jersey City, NJ. (www.bgchc.org)
3. The Hoboken Shelter Hoboken, NJ. (www.hobokenshelter.org)
4. Bayonne Economic Opportunity Foundation Bayonne, NJ. (www.beof.org) Provides programming for senior citizens, the disabled, and low-income families in Bayonne.
5. Toni’s Kitchen Montclair, NJ (www.toniskitchen.org)
6. Palisades Emergency Resource Center Union City, NJ. (www.percshelter.org) Homeless shelter, food pantry
7. Freehold Area Open Door Freehold, NJ. (www.freeholdareaopendoor.org) Provides emergency funding and food to families who lose their homes, etc.
8. 21st Century Community Learning Center Bayonne, NJ.
9. Community Foodbank of New Jersey Hillside, NJ.
10. Community Hills Early Learning Center Newark, NJ.

Option II – Participate in a week-long summer immersion trip the summer before Junior year. Details at left.

Juniors may participate in Prep's extensive Summer Immersion Program the summer before their Junior Year.

Each student must participate in daily group reflections during their service trip. After the service trip, they must attend a reunion/service reflection with Ms. Toomb. Information about the various trip locations can be found at left.

Lastly, students are required to attend a Christian Service seminar of 40 minutes each class cycle to accompany their work. In these seminars, we will examine different justice issues in our communities, reflect upon our Christian Service experiences, and work to understand how to move forward as students who are committed to justice. In addition, each student must maintain and complete a service journal to be handed in at the end of his service.

Please contact Ms. Toomb at toombm@spprep.org or (201) 547-6457 with questions.

If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come

because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us walk together.

- Lila Watson