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LBH Staff
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lindsay.finnmadisondiocese.orgCoordinator of Youth and Young Adult Formation
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LBH 2023 Calendar
MS1 : June 7 - 9 **
St. Cecilia, Wisconsin Dells
MS2 : June 12 - 15
St. Joseph, Dodgeville
HS1 : June 18 - 23
Watertown Catholic
HS2 : June 25 - 30 **
St. Francis Xavier, Cross Plains
MS3 : July 5 - 7
St. Francis Xavier, Cross Plains
HS3 : July 9 - 14 **
St. John Vianney, Janesville
MS4 : July 17 - 20 **
St. Charles, Cassville
HS4 : July 23- 28 **
St. Olaf, DeForest
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RESOURCES
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LBH 2023 REGISTRATION
We're so excited for another summer of local, life changing mission trips. Learn more about the registration process and get signed up for Love Begins Here at www.madisondiocese.org/lbhregistration.
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LOCAL, LIFE CHANGING MISSION TRIPS
We are hiring for Summer 2023.
Core Team applications are live and online!
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LETTER FROM THE MISSION DIRECTOR
Praise the Lord! It looks like you are interested in learning more about Love Begins Here, and you have come to the right place. I also warmly invite you to make use of the links above to check out LBH in action via your favorite forms of social communications - Facebook and Instagram. As updates come and there is news to be shared, those sources will help keep you in the loop.
Even though it seems like next summer will be here before we all know it, let's take a look back at some of the highlights from the past couple of summers to see where we have come as the LBH family.
Love Begins Here launched on June 21, 2009. That summer, we had 56 missionaries take to the streets of the Madison Diocese.After thirteen years of growth and guidance from the Holy Spirit, nearly 600 missionaries served on LBH trips in 2022.To this date, Love Begins Here has given over 142,000 hours of service to those in need - materially and spiritually - in the Madison Diocese. (If you didn't do the math, that comes out to over 5,900 entire days!)
While those statistics are incredible and the Lord has blessed us abundantly, it is even more exciting to recall the changes we have seen in the hearts of the young people who have joined us.Love doesn’t have to be an extraordinary, miraculous, world-changing thing. It is the small tasks close to home that can mean the most. - Molly, 5th Year Missionary
Love Begins Here means that, through supporting our neighbors, we are connecting to God. By seeing God in our neighbors, we are inviting him into our lives. It is all about finding joy in our service, focusing less on ourselves and more on our neighbor and God. - Jonathan, 1st Year Missionary
Indeed, God is good to us. Please be in touch if you have questions or need help in any way.In Christ,Lindsay FinnLBH Mission Director -
Middle School Week Schedules - LBH2023
If you are perusing the LBH schedule for this upcoming summer, you may find yourself wondering why there are two different lengths of Middle School weeks offered. The heart of the experience will be the same, the format is just slightly different. Here's the run down!
3 Day Middle School TripsFirst Day
9:30am - Check In
Games + Orientation
1/2 Day of Service
Dinner + Evening Program
Middle Day
Full day of service + the whole LBH experience.
Last Day
Daily Mass
1/2 Day of Service
Lunch + Packing + Closing Program
3:30pm - Departure4 Day Middle School Trips
First Day
5:00pm - Chek In
Games, Orientation, Dinner + Evening Program
Second and Third Days
Full day of service + the whole LBH experience.
Last Day
Daily Mass
Packing + Closing Program
11:30am - DepartureBoth MS trip version will include the same total time spent in service, split between either two or three days!
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LBH Work Site Interest
This coming summer, we will serve nearly 400 individuals, families, and community organizations during our time on the mission field. If you or someone you know could use some the service of our Love Begins Here missionaries, we'd love to hear from you. Consult the map below to see if we will be in your area, and then fill out the form below.
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