Notre Dame students experience summer service at Whole Kids Outreach

Last summer, for the first time, Whole Kids Outreach, an affiliated ministry of School Sisters of Notre Dame, coordinated with the SSND North American Vocation Team to welcome high schoolers from Notre Dame schools to a Summer Service Week. The students served as volunteer counselors for local children who attended Camp Whole Kids—a day camp run by the ministry. The experience was so enthusiastically embraced by the high schoolers that it was offered again this year, and once again, every available volunteer spot was filled.

With that, during another hot week in July, 16 students and their chaperones from Notre Dame High School St. Louis, Cristo Rey Dallas College Prep, and St. Savior High School in New York made the trip to rural Ellington, Missouri, and Camp Whole Kids. There, they had a week of both traditional summer camp fun as well as unique opportunities to connect with sisters and each other in prayer, community life, and new bonds of friendship.