Camp Xavier 2022: Bread of Life An Opportunity for Parish Youth to Grow in Christ
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t. Francis Xavier is excited to host Camp Xavier for the youth of our parish later this month! Along with Steubenville and our annual summer mission trip, Camp Xavier offers a valuable opportunity for our youth to continue formation during the summer while growing in faith and community. “We are looking forward to this year’s theme of Camp Xavier, ‘Bread of Life,” says Ashleigh Martin, Director of Youth Ministry at St. Francis Xavier. “We spend the school year growing in faith, but Camp Xavier is an opportunity for us to deep dive into a particular topic of the faith with our youth and really engage them on a deeper level about that topic.” This year our youth — incoming sixthgraders through graduated 12th-graders — will have the opportunity to deeply encounter the Eucharist. Each evening, July 23-27 from 6 to 9 p.m., our youth will gather for dinner, games, talks, discussion, and adoration. “We hope diving into the Eucharist this year will give the kids the tools to go out and evangelize because they grow in the continued on back cover
“We spend the school year growing in faith, but Camp Xavier is an opportunity for us to deep dive into a particular topic of the faith with our youth and really engage them on a deeper level about that topic.” — ASHLEIGH MA RTIN, DIR ECTOR OF YOUTH MINISTRY
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