Rostro de Cristo - The Face of Christ

www.rostrodecristo.org

Rostro de Cristo is a Catholic program whose mission is to provide spiritual and educational opportunities for young people from the United States to live out the Gospel of Jesus Christ together with the people of Ecuador.

Every year, 20+ groups of high school and college students travel to Guayaquil, Ecuador with Rostro de Cristo to spend a week getting to know the daily realities, joys, and struggles of Ecuadorians living in poverty. Also, every year 12-15 recent college graduates spend a year as a Rostro de Cristo volunteers living simply and in community while serving the Ecuadorian community.

The program invites participants to:

-Lead a simple lifestyle.
-Build an intentional Christian community.
-Be in relationship with the Ecuadorian people and reflect on the face of Christ in their joys and struggles.
-Work with the Ecuadorian people to find long term solutions to the problems of poverty and together seek opportunities to improve the lives of the people.

Rostro de Cristo participants are thus witnesses to the Gospel and a source of hope and light in the community. These experiences inspire life-long commitments to service, social justice, and solidarity with the people of Ecuador and the world.

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• Ecuador
• social justice
• immersion
• spirituality
• poverty