Magis Christian Service

To provide an opportunity for the student to:

• deepen their formation of Christian and human values and attitudes.
• broaden their experience of the wider world.
• respond in a practical way to the call to be men and women-for-and-with-others.
• experience multiple ways of being of service to the world.
• become sensitized to people in need on all levels of society, thereby helping her/him realize what she/he can offer others, what she/he can learn from others, and what her/his own needs may be.
• discover talents they may have that are not as evident in their usual academic environment; and also to become aware of what their limitations might be.

Care for Our Common Home

• Theme: Care for Our Common Home
   
• Goal: As they establish a new home for themselves at Prep, freshmen are invited to think about the many definitions of home, including and especially those that are important to them. Out of gratitude for the many kinds of home they enjoy, their service will ask them to care for shared and common homes in a variety of ways.
   
• Requirements:

  • Complete and log at least three events or experiences of service that demonstrate care for their common home – either their own (i.e. former school, faith community, the Earth) or that of another person’s (food or resources bank, meal service, community center, senior center, care facility for elderly, etc.)

  • Volunteer to support one on-campus event

Option for the Poor & Vulnerable

• Theme: Option for the Poor & Vulnerable

• Goal: Sophomores will expand their understanding of poverty and marginalization as it manifests in their communities. They will do so through service with organizations and agencies that support the vulnerable, poor, or otherwise marginalized persons in the greater Seattle area.
   
• Requirements:

  • Complete Sophomore Day of Service in November 2024

  • Complete and log at least four events or experiences of service with organizations and agencies that serve the poor, vulnerable, and marginalized in our greater Seattle area.

  • Volunteer to support one on-campus event

Solidarity through Service

• Goal: In encounter, we recognize all in our community as brothers and sisters in Christ and work to foster relationships of mutuality and kinship. Juniors will complete a service project that allows them to further explore an issue relating to social justice and experience encounter with those on the margins of society in different ways. Students will work on a Service Reflection Assignment while doing their service.
   
• Requirements:
  • Completion of the Junior Service Project, a yearlong project that calls for dedicated service to one organization or agency, regular reflection, and completion of the various checkpoints and check-ins.
  • Juniors serve at an organization or agency where they will be able to foster sustained encounter with people or communities experiencing some kind of marginalization. Juniors are expected to make at least 10 visits to their site during the project.
  • Juniors should aim to begin the project during the school year but can use the summer between Junior and Senior year to complete their visits.

Ignatian Leadership & Civic Action

• Goal: Many seniors will step into leadership roles on campus – as captains, mentors, retreat leaders, prayer leaders, and club executives. In addition to these roles, all Seniors will take a Senior Seminar course where they connect their experiences of service with social justice issues and current events. The course will feature an evaluation of civic power, an in-depth study of Catholic Social Teaching and faith in action, and a sustained reflection and presentation on their progress towards the grad-at-grad virtues and ideals of an Ignatian Leader.

  Requirement:

  • Completion of Senior Seminar and Capstone presentation