Campus Ministries Attends SEEK23 Karl Yabut, Campus Minister, Western Deanery College Campuses
“Jesus is calling you the light of the world. was virtual so I hosted a watch party that weekend for and professional students in our Diocese He is asking you to let your light shine undergraduate to encounter Christ in their local communities. This was before others. … Are you ready for it?” a great event that came with many fruits for campus - St. John Paul II, To The Young People at ministry, but I knew that encountering the mystical body of Christ in a greater scale would make such a lasting Kiel Center 1999 impact in their lives. Can you imagine how it must’ve felt to be in that convention center in 1999 with the Vicar of Christ asking you if you’re ready to step up to the plate? What is so cool to me is that a SAINT was in that same room as all of us in attendance. Asking the same age group if they were ready to be the light to others.
“SEEK23 was such an inspiring and spiritually rejuvenating experience. Being at a conference with 17,000 other Catholic college students and young adults was really awesome. Being able to converse with many other people from all around the world, all with different stories, but all with one thing in common.. God… Most importantly, I enjoyed hanging out with my ministry family. We laughed together, cried together, and we grew closer as a community.” - Connor Fisk, Centenary College ‘26
In 2019, I attended the SEEK19 conference in Indianapolis, IN with 18 friends from ULM (NLU to most of you) and I was just overwhelmed in joy and amazement that Our Lord called every person that week -all 17,000 of us- to So in January 2023, 14 students from across the diocese encounter Him deeper in the sacraments, in prayer, in went to St. Louis, MO to attend SEEK23 and nothing has community, and to have full surrender. In 2022, SEEK22 changed. I was filled with the same sense of overwhelming 16
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