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My Internship At A National Conference For FOCUS

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During my winter term, I spent time exploring my faith and facilitating conversations with other students at a national conference for FOCUS in San Antonio, Texas and following the conference I returned to Greencastle to continue faith formation as well as community outreach. My internship facilitated through the FOCUS Missionary team on DePauw’s campus was very fruitful. FOCUS is an acronym that stands for Fellowship of Catholic University Students. During this experience, I lived and worked beside the missionaries. I became a member of the team so that I could explore and discover the behind the scenes of missionary life.
FOCUS uses their outreach by building authentic relationships with students to help build them in all aspects of life. The …show more content…

This conference was the beginning of my internship from January 3-7. The object of this conference, was for all college students to explore how to live out their faith in life even with the obstacles we face. This conference for me personally was a restart in my faith journey. After being home for two weeks where, I did not have a family that supports my faith, it was a good reminder that I am not alone. I went to several talks while at SEEK that reaffirmed my faith, as well as presented new perspective, that will influence my approach to campus life. For my internship, outside of the personal faith formation which is a part of daily missionary life, I could share my story with a group of students and facilitate discussions about what happened while at SEEK. Following the conference and after returning to campus, I started to live out the daily life of a missionary. Essentially, everyday comprised of five things: Mass, Holy Hour, Personal /Team Faith formation, Student community outreach (meeting and getting to know people daily) and creating/executing events to foster already established relationships and those

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