{"id":21922,"date":"2025-05-27T11:11:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T15:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=21922"},"modified":"2025-05-27T21:16:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T01:16:23","slug":"university-ministry-launches-blog-highlighting-student-reflections-on-service-immersion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2025\/05\/27\/university-ministry-launches-blog-highlighting-student-reflections-on-service-immersion\/","title":{"rendered":"University Ministry launches blog highlighting student reflections on service immersion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.udmercy.edu\/life\/ministry\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-21906\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2025\/05\/Service-immersion-blog-image.jpg?resize=300%2C192&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"An image of several people crouched under words on a black wall. The words are a quote from Martin Luther King, Jr., &quot;...until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.&quot;\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2025\/05\/Service-immersion-blog-image-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C192&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2025\/05\/Service-immersion-blog-image-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C655&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2025\/05\/Service-immersion-blog-image-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C491&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2025\/05\/Service-immersion-blog-image-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C983&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2025\/05\/Service-immersion-blog-image-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1310&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2025\/05\/Service-immersion-blog-image-scaled.jpg?resize=860%2C550&amp;ssl=1 860w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2025\/05\/Service-immersion-blog-image-scaled.jpg?w=1986&amp;ssl=1 1986w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>University Ministry<\/a> is excited to launch a <a href=\"http:\/\/udmimmersions.blogspot.com\">blog<\/a> highlighting stories from student experiences of service immersion with UDM.<\/p>\n<p>Titled &#8220;Act Justly, Love Mercy, Walk Humbly,&#8221; after the biblical passage Micah 6:8, this blog serves as a record of students&#8217; experiences, a way of sharing their thoughts with the larger UDM community and a place for students to learn from one another as people seeking justice.<\/p>\n<p>Service immersions are key experiences of a transformative Mercy and Jesuit education, rooted in service and social justice. These experiences include serving in shelters, soup kitchens, after school projects, urban farms and many other important community-based projects. They integrate cultural learning, relationship building, presentations from local community leaders, prayer and reflection. They offer a life-long path for our students to become \u201cmen and women with and for others,&#8221; and we believe that these experiences form student leaders who have critical minds and compassionate hearts.<\/p>\n<p>The first blog post comes from senior Tevon Conrad, reflecting on his spring break trip to Montgomery, Ala.\u2014a historic hub for both slavery and the Civil Rights Movement.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/udmimmersions.blogspot.com\">Read Conrad&#8217;s thoughts (and more student reflections coming soon) here!<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read the new blog recently launched by University Ministry where students reflect on service immersion experiences, which are a key part of the transformative Mercy and Jesuit education at UDM. In the first blog, Tevon Conrad reflects on his spring break trip to Montgomery, Ala., a historic hub for both slavery and the Civil Rights Movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":677,"featured_media":21906,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6,4404],"tags":[4353,6809,16,803,332,655],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2025\/05\/Service-immersion-blog-image-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1638&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbwnTV-5HA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21922"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21963,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21922\/revisions\/21963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}