SS. Peter & Paul's Parish in Arizona
Overview
SS. Peter and Paul's Mission in Tucson, Arizona is our newest addition to the itinerary offering men and women a noble purpose to the desert lands and national parks of the Southwest.  Meanwhile, opportunities for discussion, outreach to the mission there, and projects involving painting, landscaping, and renovating the church are in order for the spring and run nearly a week.

Description of Trip
SPFL Contact:
 Nicoleta Hernandez
Location:  Tucson, Arizona
Host:  Mission Parish and Mary Lytle
Websitewww.sspp-tucson.org
Dates and Deadlines: March 7th-15th, 2009
Mission:  Painting, repointing brick, and landscaping
Price:  Ticket + $150 lodging and service fee
Who can go:  Coed Trips
Spiritual Guide: Metropolitan Moses
Type of worker: 
Adventurous type, strong back, able, and ready for anything...(cooking and masonry work also needed)

Accommodations
Bring sleeping bags and be prepared for a week of labor discussion. 

Sample Daily schedule

Activity
Wakeup, Cleanup
Morning Prayers followed by breakfast
Labor
Lunch and Readings
Labor
Cleanup
Dinner
Vespers
Discussion with Metropolitan Moses, activities in Tucson, etc.

*Two Days of Site Seeing are on the Agenda*

 

 


 
 

Site seeing
     Come and experience the fellowship of SPFL in the Southwest, while there you are bound to experience the life of true asceticism, prayer, and fellowship as you:

  • The projects we have in mind include:
    -Building new concrete stairs to the back entrance of the
    building. What we have now is thoroughly inadequate and unsafe.
    -Building a new concrete handicap ramp to the front entrance of
    the building.
    -Removing the carpeting in the chapel and installing new wood
    flooring -- we were thinking laminate flooring, but entertaining the idea of
    hardwood, which we are told is not much more expensive.
    -Xeriscaping (see http://www.eartheasy.com/grow_xeriscape.htm)
    the church yard.

    Possible "adventure tours" include:
    -Day trip to Tombstone, "the town too tough to die," and
    Bisbee, once the largest city between St. Louis and San Francisco -- both
    are authentic "wild west" towns.
    -Day trip to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum and/or Saguaro
    National Park.
    -Day trip into the Santa Rita Mountains for a picnic, visiting
    the Spanish mission churches -- San Xavier del Bac and Tumacacori -- on the
    way.
    -Day trip to Sabino Canyon, if it has re-opened. (It was badly
    damaged when run-off from the mountains, denuded by forest fires, flooded
    the area and destroyed many of the old CCC stone bridges and roads.)

To apply
     Send applications to thespfl@gmail.com