Magis, October 4, 2019

JST Announcements

The week of October 7 we will collect socks (children and adult sizes), sweatpants or athletic tracksuits (for children) and simple long sleeve shirts (for adults) for migrants on the Juarez side of the U.S. border with Mexico. There are 15,000 people waiting in shelters and on the streets, a mix of Central Americans and Mexican internal migrants. This collection will be in collaboration with SCU's Campus Ministry. Barrels will be set up in the lobby at JST for collection. We will deliver the donations to Stephen Pitts, SJ, JST alumnus, who works at Sacred Heart Church in El Paso, across the border from Juarez. Fr. Pitts will deliver them to a Claretian who works with the migrants.

This collection is in conjunction with our celebration of the Inauguration of SCU President Kevin O'Brien, SJ, as an expression of our mission and values as a graduate school of Santa Clara University.
JST students are collaborating with SCU Campus Ministry to lead a prayer service on the main SCU Campus, "Welcoming All as Christ: How Are We Sanctuary?" on Wednesday, October 9, at 4:00 p.m. We will pray for humane and just treatment of migrants at the U.S. border as part of the celebrations of the inauguration of Kevin O'Brien, SJ, as new President of Santa Clara University.
Interested in serving as an immersion leader with high school students? Tamara Setiady, Immersion Coordinator, will be on campus at JST on Tuesday, October 8th to meet with any interested students from 9am-2pm in the JST Compañía Room and Patio. Please RSVP at tsetiady@siprep.org.
Each year, JST awards "Student Development Grant" funding to subsidize students' expenses for participation in a conference or workshop that will further their academic or ministerial formation. To apply, please submit a Student Development Grant Application to Paul Kircher, Assistant Dean of Students, pkircher@scu.edu. Fall Extended Deadline: October 15.
For the last several weeks, several members of the JST Community have been meeting to find a way for the School to understand more comprehensively and respond more effectively to the Climate Crisis with which our planet is wrestling. If you are interested in being involved in this discussion, please contact one of the following: George Griener (ggriener@scu.edu), Lisa Fullam (lfullam@scu.edu), Mary Beth Lamb (melamb@scu.edu), Mary McGann (mmcgann@scu.edu), Lluis-Salvador Salinas Roca (lsalinasroca@scu.edu), or Joel Thompson (jdthompson@scu.edu). Currently, the group is meeting on Tuesday afternoons.
The Climate Awareness Committee is asking that you consider signing the Senate Petition for International Climate Action sponsored by the Catholic Climate Covenant. The time to take action is NOW. The United States must lead on climate action and the US Senate must ensure that we participate in international agreements that seek to prevent the impacts from climate change from doing irreparable harm to our common home and our shared future. Sign in the spirit of St. Francis of Assisi, whose feast we celebrate on Oct. 4.
Sign up to be a Soup Group on the sheet on the Climate Change board. Grab some friends and sign up to make a meatless soup for a Tuesday soup supper. Only two slots are left: Nov. 5 and Dec. 3. We are posting soup recipes on a google doc, Vegan Soups Galore, so you can try these soups for yourself and help to ameliorate your carbon footprint.

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