The Service Trip Experience

Register here: https://k2adventuretravel.com/product/ndp-aravaipa/
Trip Cost is: $750 per person

• 25 students minimum
• 31 students maximum with 4 supervisors
• Confirmed by August 2, 2021.

Day 1
Scottsdale – Aravaipa Farms | Sept. 2 | Meals - Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

• The team will meet at Notre Dame Prep at 8 a.m. to check in and begin the 2.5 hour drive to Aravaipa Farms by private bus. Einstein's Bagels will be served for breakfast on the bus.
• On the way, the team will stop at a local grocery store for a team adventure to participate in purchasing groceries and food items for a local food bank. All expenses for this challenge will be covered by K2 Adventures Foundation. Immediately following the adventure, the team will drive to a local food bank to either volunteer or to make a donation of all the items purchased.
• After the adventure, the team will stop for lunch at a location TBD. Cost of lunch is not included due to multiple options in a plaza-type setting. In the late afternoon, the team will arrive at Aravaipa Farms to check into their adventurous accommodations and enjoy a delicious 3-course farm to table dinner.
• Reflections by Father Frank prior to lights out. Accommodations Cabins & Tents at Aravaipa Farms. Accommodations will include cabin rooms with beds and floor space for air mattresses and sleeping bags, as well as outdoor tents. Sleeping accommodations will be determined by NDP staff. Meals Breakfast and Dinner

Day 2
Aravaipa Farms | Sept. 3 | Meals - Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

• Breakfast will be served at 8 a.m.
• After breakfast, the team will volunteer at Aravaipa Farms doing a variety of farm/inn tasks. Some examples of tasks are
  • pruning fruit trees,
  • weeding in the garden,
  • chicken coop maintenance 
  • trail building/maintenance.
• The team will also have the opportunity to go on a farm tour, have a Q/A session with the farm owners and participate in other educational activities.
• After a productive morning, lunch will be served. In addition, Aravaipa Farms will donate 10% of garden produce/egg sales at the inn for the following week to the local organization the team volunteered at on Thursday.
• After lunch, the team will go on a short hike down to the creek, leaving right from the farm property.
• In the evening, the team will enjoy another 3-course farm to table dinner OR they have the option to have a local carniceria come and do an outdoor traditional asada onsite for a unique experience!
• Reflections by Father Frank prior to lights out.
• Accommodations Cabins & Tents at Aravaipa Farms. Accommodations will include cabin rooms with beds and floor space for air mattresses and sleeping bags, as well as outdoor tents. Sleeping accommodations will be determined by NDP staff. 

Day 3 Aravaipa Farms - Scottsdale | Sept 4 | Meals - Breakfast and Lunch

• The team will wake for breakfast and have beautiful mass in the orchard.
• Breakfast will be served at 8 a.m. After mass, the team will check out of their rooms and meet around 10:30 a.m. to make the 5-10 minute drive to Brandenburg Mountain trailhead for a morning hike. This amazing, intermediate level hike goes along the ridgeline of the mountain giving an incredible birds eye view of the canyon and surrounding mining towns, including Mammoth.
• After the hike, the team will begin the 2.5 hour drive back to Notre Dame Prep by private bus.
• A box lunch will be provided for the bus ride home.
• The team will arrive back at Notre Dame Prep at approximately 4:30 p.m. 

Each year we take members of our Saints for Life Club and other students interested in protecting the unborn to our Nation's Capitol for the Annual March for Life. It is a wonderful event that includes Mass at the National Basilica --The Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, speeches and participation in the march at the Capitol Mall. 

The next trip is set for January 19-23. More details to come. 

1MISSION is the leader in organizing and leading short-term mission trips with a long-term impact to Rocky Point, Mexico. Our mission trips are Christ-centered, safe, affordable, and hassle free.

It's our mission to connect people to people, not people to projects.  

Come along side of a family who has invested hundreds of hours in their community, and in just a few days help build their entire house. You'll truly be on a mission 'with' not 'for' them. Healthy missions are fully-dependent upon genuine partnerships, long-term relationships and sustainable development - connecting the church on a global level.

The next mission is set for March 10-13, 2022. You can register here. The cost is $550. Fee includes participation, transportation and tent camping.

Here are the forms to download for all 1Mission Trips:

• 1Mission Permission
• NDP Code of Behavior
• Participation Form
• Request Approval

Join us for a one-week immersion trip to our Puerto Rico. Speaking Spanish is a plus! More details to come.

My service trip experience changed my life. I got the amazing opportunity to go to the Dominican Republic in October 2019. Through this trip I made new friends that I am still friends with today. The pequeños were so happy, sweet, and loved to play and have fun. They not only impacted my life, but they also touched my heart. This trip helped me to get better at my spanish and to appreciate everything I have. I think about all of them every single day and I hope to get go back and see them again in the future. 

-Macy Brennan, Class of 2021

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Notre Dame Preparatory High School