Fellowship of catholic university students (FOCUS)
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FOCUS is a Catholic collegiate outreach whose mission is to share the hope and joy of the gospel with college and university students. Trained in Church teaching, prayer, sacred Scripture, evangelization and discipleship, FOCUS missionaries encounter students in friendship where they are, inviting them into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and accompanying them as they pursue lives of virtue and excellence. Through Bible studies, outreach events, mission trips and one-on-one discipleship, missionaries inspire and build up students in the faith, sending them out to spread the good news and to live out the Great Commission: Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations (Mt. 28:19).
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Bible Study
We would love to have you in a FOCUS Bible study! We have men's and women's studies that meet weekly at both the Catholic Student Center and on-campus at Texas Tech. There you can find fellowship with others students growing in their faith and dive deeply in the Scriptures! Fill out the form linked below to sign up for a bible study.
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Vision for missionary discipleship
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WIN
In the win stage, our goal is to invite people to this kind of friendship with Christ. We do this through our prayer and example, and though investing our lives in authentic friendships, sharing the Gospel message and inviting them to say “Yes” to Christ—to surrender their lives to Him.
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BUILD
Once someone has surrendered their lives to Christ, it’s crucial we “build” them up in the Faith. We help them deepen their divine intimacy by growing in prayer, fellowship, the sacramental life and their formation in Christ’s teachings (cf. Acts 2:42). We also begin to cast a vision for evangelization, and train them in practical skills of sharing their faith.
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SEND
A successful missionary disciple isn’t someone who merely forms others in faith.We have not succeeded in forming missionary disciples until we launch them as spirit-filled evangelists. When disciples become disciple-makers, the “Little Way of Evangelization” begins to take off.We’ve seen how St. Paul did not merely pass on good Christian teaching to his disciples. He sent them out to find other trustworthy people to train them to do the same for others (2 Tim 2:2)—in other words, he trained his disciples to become disciple-makers.
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SEEK 2021
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SEEK21 is a five-day event in St. Louis, Missouri where thousands will gather to ask the big questions about life, love, and true happiness.
SEEK2019 Recap Video
We are called to be a generation of hope. Watch the highlights from SEEK2019 in Indianopolis.
SEEK2021
What if it’s real? What if there were a God who made every part of you, down to the last detail? What if He loves you so much that He chose to die rather than be without you? What if you chose to seek Him, find Him, encounter Him? What if there’s more to your story?
The Hour That Will Change Your Life
Fr. Mike Schmitz shares his experiences and the true intimacy that the Lord offers us in the Eucharist.
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