Join the entire Santa Clara University Community for a special Mass followed by a picnic on the St. Ignatius lawn.

Wednesday, October 2 at 12 noon

Mission Church at Santa Clara University

(All faith traditions are invited to attend.)

• 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 week of October 7, we will collect socks (children and adult sizes), sweatpants or athletic track suits (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.  For this and other inauguration events, JST will provide transportation. For the prayer service, the van leaves from JST at 1:30 p.m., returning at approximately 8:30 p.m.  For the Inauguration Mass (tickets are required to attend) on Thursday, Oct. 10, the van leaves from JST at 2:00 p.m., returning at approximately 8:00 p.m. For the Inauguration Ceremony on Friday, Oct. 11, the van leaves from JST at 9:00 a.m., returning at approximately 4:00 p.m. RSVP to melamb@scu.edu by October 1, if you plan to ride in the van for any of these events. NEW: We need several lectors for the Prayer Service on Wednesday. Please contact melamb@scu.edu if you are willing to serve in this way.
• 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 Deadline: October 1.
• Interested in serving as an immersion leader with high school students? Tamara Setiady, Immersion Coordinator, will be at JST on Tuesday, October 8, to meet with any interested students from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. in the JST Compañía Room and Patio. Please RSVP at tsetiady@siprep.org.
• 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. Here are some details: