Outreach
Big Brothers/Big Sisters
Help tutor a child with their homework while creating meaningful friendships
with at-risk children in grades 2-5. Big Brothers Big Sisters is an eight-week
after-school tutoring program held on campus in the
Sancta Alberta Chapel.
Contact Martha Villegas Miranda at (815) 836-5476
for more information.
Student Testimonial
- I had always wanted to be a part of the phenomenal program, Big
Brothers Big Sisters. Now I have had the chance, during my second
semester of college, to be apart of something so great! Ministry is
something that I live for and that I feel is a calling of mine because I
like to help and serve people the most I can.
Through BBBS, I have
been able to take one step closer in fulfilling one of my callings in
life. I used to think that I could do everything on my own; that I could
handle all the struggles that were going on in my life all alone. But what
I realized was that I needed a mentor, a teacher, a sister, a friend to
help me through everything that I was and still am enduring.
I needed
someone to be a guide when I didn’t feel like I had anyone else. I just
needed someone to be there and someone to talk to. I had a person like
that in my life and I feel that through my experiences, I can be that
friend, mentor, sister, or teacher for another person. In Big Brothers Big
Sisters, I am a mentor to a third grade girl. She is the sweetest and most
talented third grader I know. She talks to me. She tells me about her
family and friends. She opened up to me. She trusts me. Just being able to
be there for that one child makes everything worthwhile.
In being a part
of BBBS, I have learned so much. I have learned that just a consistent ear
is all a person may need to feel like they have an escape. Whether it be
myself, a child, a peer, or an adult, I will always have an ear to listen
to someone. BBBS has taught me plenty and the impact that this one child
has made on me and the impact I have made on her makes my day.
Jessica
Luckett
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