Make a Change this Spring or Fall!

Spring, fall, and other alternative breaks are a great time to give back to the community. The program has been designed for college students, and adapted for high school groups (grades 9-12). The St. Luke's Experience provides young people with hands on service learning projects that challenge and encourage them to engage a world that in need. Together they will explore various social justice issues and have the opportunity to meet those impacted by them and partner with agencies working for change.

Your experience is created through a combination of various ministries throughout Philadelphia. The week-long journey evokes a community reaching forth in love, in the midst of the abandoned, forgotten, hopeless, and the poor. The journey calls for humility, love, and above of selflessness. Along your journey, you'll bond with your peers, come across difficult situations, and interact with some of Philadelphia's unfortunate populations. 

 

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Youth will engage in communal engagement projects that include:
  • community cleanups
  • serving in hunger programs
  • home repairs 
  • educational settings.
  • group discussion 
Contact the EMC to customize your groups service learning program. 
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The Episcopal Mission Center
​is located at Saint Luke's Episcopal Church in the historic Germantown section of Philadelphia.
5421 Germantown Ave, 
Philadelphia, PA 19144

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

 Thank you for your radical hospitality!
Michelle France
Gwynedd Mercy University 

​Thank you for your hospitality in hosting students from Gwynedd Mercy and Alvernia University during their Alternative Break with the Interfaith Center.  The facility was wonderful. We held several of our workshops there in your comfortable space. What an ideal setting! The students especially appreciated participating in your mass as getting a personal orientation from Rev Morris and such a warm welcome from your parishioners.

With much appreciation for all you do,


​“Right now, my group is rating our experience as the best mission they've ever been a part of.  The orientation and subsequent building of relationships with kids in the community broke down their racial and urban stereotypes. Most importantly, every one of them experienced a deepening of their faith in God, and tangible understanding of how that faith works itself out in mission and issues of social justice. We will definitely be coming back!”

— Rev. Jane Cornman, St. Mary’s Church, Wayne, PA