Devlin S-AFE Trip: Pre-Trip Meeting
January 07, 2017 | Devlin Student-Athlete Formation & Success
For the eighth straight year, Boston College student-athletes are spending part of winter break in the New Orleans area on the Devlin S-AFE Trip. The week-long trip is centered on community service in partnership with SBP (formerly the St. Bernard Project), helping families rebuild homes destroyed by Hurricane Katrina 11 years ago.Â
Each day, student-athletes will reflect on the day's activities. For more information about the trip and its purpose, check out the trip overview and check back for daily recaps.Â
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Submitted by So. Griffin Elliott, Sailing
Jan. 7, 2017
While the snow storm kept half of the group from reaching campus on time, those of us who were present spent time Saturday night reflecting and preparing for the upcoming trip with Chris, a Jesuit chaplain at BC.Â
The goal of the conversation was to clarify that this trip to New Orleans was not only to rebuild a house, but to also continue to build our own selves through the Jesuit idea of cura personalis -- Latin for "care for the whole person." Rather than focus just on academics, or just on athletics, or just on our social lives, Jesuits ideology teaches us to become a fuller individual through experience, and that is just what this trip, as we learned from Chris, is all about. Realizing the potential of the group, working together, along with witnessing our own strengths, along with appropriate reflection, should help us to progress as wholesome individuals, and more importantly, as a force of action as a team.
Chris encouraged us to reflect throughout the trip as we encountered new revelations. He suggested that, at the end of every day, we ask ourselves three questions: Where is God at work in my life? How will I respond to God in my life? and Who will I remember? The whole group was given journals to record our reflections each day, to aid in deciphering how the trip is affecting our lives and the lives around us in the still-damaged New Orleans community.Â
We will leave tomorrow morning, January 8, 2017, for New Orleans.
Each day, student-athletes will reflect on the day's activities. For more information about the trip and its purpose, check out the trip overview and check back for daily recaps.Â
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Submitted by So. Griffin Elliott, Sailing
Jan. 7, 2017
While the snow storm kept half of the group from reaching campus on time, those of us who were present spent time Saturday night reflecting and preparing for the upcoming trip with Chris, a Jesuit chaplain at BC.Â
The goal of the conversation was to clarify that this trip to New Orleans was not only to rebuild a house, but to also continue to build our own selves through the Jesuit idea of cura personalis -- Latin for "care for the whole person." Rather than focus just on academics, or just on athletics, or just on our social lives, Jesuits ideology teaches us to become a fuller individual through experience, and that is just what this trip, as we learned from Chris, is all about. Realizing the potential of the group, working together, along with witnessing our own strengths, along with appropriate reflection, should help us to progress as wholesome individuals, and more importantly, as a force of action as a team.
Chris encouraged us to reflect throughout the trip as we encountered new revelations. He suggested that, at the end of every day, we ask ourselves three questions: Where is God at work in my life? How will I respond to God in my life? and Who will I remember? The whole group was given journals to record our reflections each day, to aid in deciphering how the trip is affecting our lives and the lives around us in the still-damaged New Orleans community.Â
We will leave tomorrow morning, January 8, 2017, for New Orleans.
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