The first Catholic-themed immersion trip at Hope College was an initiative of the Saint Benedict Forum and was generously co-sponsored by Hope College's Campus Ministries and Union of Catholic Students as well as Holland, Michigan's St. Francis De Sales Catholic Church. The theme of the trip was poverty, religious life, and social justice in Chicago's Humboldt Park neighborhood. The group lived with and worked alongside the Franciscans of the Eucharist who run the Mission of Our Lady of the Angels.