Service Trips - Our Lady of Good Counsel High School

Service Trips

Campus Ministry

Margaret Bykowski Smith '08Director of Campus Ministry

Grace de ZamaroczyAssociate Campus Minister, Service Coordinator

Developing a commitment to service is central to the Good Counsel experience. Engagement in service connects powerfully to our identity as a Xaverian Brothers Sponsored School and our core values of simplicity, humility, compassion, zeal, and trust.

Appalachia Service Project

Learn more about the ASP service trip

Learn more about the ASP service trip

Camden, New Jersey

Learn more about the Camden service trip

Learn more about the Camden service trip

Romero Center Ministries was founded on March 24, 1998, on the 18th anniversary of the martyrdom of Saint Oscar Romero of El Salvador. St. Joseph Pro-Cathedral parish converted an empty convent on its campus with a vision for an urban retreat center to help adults understand their role in bringing about a societal commitment to end poverty and discrimination in the world.

2025 Dates TBD

Contact: Grace De Zamaroczy

El Salvador

Learn more about the El Salvador service trip

Learn more about the El Salvador service trip

The Our Lady of Good Counsel El Salvador trip is an international service learning program that has been running since 2009. Partnering with Building Futures Project, senior students serve the disadvantaged in the impoverished neighborhoods of Las Delicias and Ciudad Arce in San Salvador. Service work includes construction projects, house visits, working in a daycare center, serving those who are food insecure, and more. This program has grown to include a separate service trip for alumni.

Participation Process:

Junior students may apply to attend the El Salvador service trip, which will take place during their senior year. There are typically more applicants than there are spaces on the trip.
Selected students are then assigned to one of two, week-long, annual trips: One group travels in the summer after junior year and the other in January during senior year.
Students who are juniors during the 2024-2025 school year may apply in October of 2024 for the trips scheduled in June 2025 or January 2026.

Contact: Patti Perfetto

Montego Bay, Jamaica

Learn more about the Jamaica service trip

Learn more about the Jamaica service trip

Jamaica Mustard Seed Communities began in 1978 in the impoverished community of Mona Common on the outskirts of Kingston, Jamaica, as a home for a handful of abandoned and disabled children. Today Mustard Seed Communities serves over 400 children, young adults, and families who belong to the most vulnerable groups in Jamaican society. These include children and young adults with disabilities, children affected by HIV/AIDS, and teen mothers along with their babies. MSC Jamaica also manages a number of community outreach programs to combat poverty and provide education to local populations.

2025 Dates TBD

Contact: Grace De Zamaroczy