Optimally, service will be performed when the best opportunities for growth are available for each individual student. We hope to avoid trivializing service as a mere task. However, we understand the summer season begets many interesting opportunities, like camp counseling, mission trips, summer church programs, and more. Therefore, the timing of service is a decision [...]

With our growing student body, it’s essential for students to take ownership of coordinating their own service work. We do offer a list of common service opportunities, so that students have some reliable ways to earn service. The Houston Food Bank is an excellent example of an organization that will always need help, year-round.

We offer a nationally-recognized award called the Presidential Volunteer Service Award; STH is one of few local Certifying Organizations qualified to evaluate and award those who achieve the required metrics, defined here. Recipients will differentiate themselves when pursuing scholarships, internships, college admissions, and much more. The annual STH award application phase is in late spring; [...]

We maintain a list of approved opportunities here, and we will always be willing to approve any other eligible experiences as requested by students. To be eligible, the experience must benefit a non-profit organization with a mission to serve the call to community and solidarity and/or the call to those who are poor or vulnerable. When [...]

The service year begins June 1 and ends May 1. Service performed in that timeframe will count toward a student's required experiences for the grade he will enter in August of that year. Incoming freshmen are welcome to complete service in the summer prior to starting school in August, just like our returning students.

Yes. Our service program is designed to serve as a catalyst for our young men to grow into caring, spiritually healthy adults. The details of our program are reviewed with each enrolled student at the start of every school year. Each student is asked to take part in six different service experiences per year of [...]

St. Thomas offers five mandatory retreats with the sole purpose of helping young men discover who it is that God created them to be. Each retreat is unique in its own right and offers different activities that challenge students to think about their relationships with their neighbors and God. We also make it a priority [...]