Fellowship aims to bring Christ to all with help of college students

Fellowship aims to bring Christ to all with help of college students

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MELBOURNE, Fla. (CNS) -- For Andrew Davis, what he saw at the Seek 2013 Convention at Walt Disney World "doesn't compare or match anything I've ever seen before. Seeing what's said being practiced has touched me the most," he said about the annual gathering sponsored by the Fellowship of Catholic University Students. The conference came at a perfect time for Davis, a student at Germanna Community College in Fredericksburg, Va., who is in the initiation process to enter the Catholic Church. He was one of more than 6,000 young adults who gathered Jan. 2-6 at Disney's Swan and Dolphin Resort in Lake Buena Vista. "The church wants to invite every person -- every man, woman and child to experience a personal encounter with Jesus Christ," said Curtis Martin, the fellowship's founder and member of the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization. "Many have not personally encountered Jesus Christ. We need to reach the entire world and the way to do it is to reach American university students. "They're going to become leaders and we need people who know Christ to be the ones exercising that authority in our culture," he told Catholic News Service. The Fellowship of Catholic University Students, known as FOCUS, originated at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kan., in 1998. Its fellowship's missionaries are present on 74 college campuses and there is a new online Digital Campus to connect with students not on FOCUS campuses. The missionaries befriend students and help them develop a personal relationship with Christ, then send them forth to evangelize others. There are now more than 5,000 fellowship alumni; the program has fostered nearly 400 vocations. "I love Christ," said Robert Frank, a 2010 graduate of the University of Notre Dame and a fellowship missionary. "This is a way to come together as young Catholics, part of his church to put Christ at the center of life and witness others doing so as well."

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