The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Badger Catholic Service Team takes their call to know, love and serve quite seriously. They don’t mind traveling 1,700 miles for a service project.

Here’s what these college students had to say about their time at St. Peter’s Mission and School on the Gila River Reservation. That’s where the Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity dedicate their life.

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Learn more about the sisters and mission churches

https://www.catholicsun.org/2015/06/04/nuns-dominate-indian-mission-school-video/

• Mission dioceses prepare youth, young adults for leadership roles
• Mission dioceses minister to Catholics scattered over great distances
• Catholic Church has extensive history of missions in the U.S.
• Makeup of mission dioceses reflects U.S. church’s changing demographics
• Vast distances create trials and joy for Catholics in mission dioceses
• Mission dioceses welcome the stranger, disenfranchised
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