Campus Ministry & Christian Outreach
Peace and Justice Education Programs
At Gabriel Richard students participate in special programs designed to raise awareness of critical peace and justice issues and to give students ways to work positively for change.
- Hunger Awareness Week, held each November, focuses discussion on hunger/poverty issues.
- Hunger Action Week follows the Hunger Awareness week and affords students two opportunities to help alleviate poverty and hunger: a Hunger Banquet through which funds are raised and a canned food drive. Students choose where they would like their donations sent. Some choose a Detroit soup kitchen, others an overseas area of need, yet others help provide scholarships, chickens, or goats for our sister village in El Salvador. Our canned food helps stock the shelves at the Downriver Community Food Pantry, Our Lady of the Wood's Pantry, and St. Cyril Parish Pantry.
- Mission Week, held each year during Lent, raises consciousness about our Church's missionary activity and it's labor against injustice. Through activities such as Festival of Foods, student-faculty volleyball game, and daily Lenten collections funds are raised to support various missions.
- Camp Crosstown, sponsored by Michigan Roundtable for Diversity and Inclusion, brings teens of various ethnic racial, religious and socio-economic backgrounds together for a week in the summer. They share the richness of their diverse backgrounds, develop leadership and communication skills needed for building true community in our diverse world. Gabriel Richard students are encouraged to attend.
- Project Diversity offers our students an opportunity to meet and share with students of various cultures and faiths through Diversity Club activities and through joint outreach opportunities with Muslim, Jewish, and other teens.
