SPREADING THE LIGHT
MARY COTTINGHAM | STC
Holy friendships
FOCUS missionaries, from left, Daniel Rosa, Maria Diaz, Samantha Ayers and Juan Archila share their love of the Catholic faith with students at Texas A&M University-Kingsville.
FOCUS missionaries bring the Word of God to students on the Kingsville campus By Mary Cottingham South Texas Catholic
D
uring her senior year in college, Samantha Ayers encountered the poor on a FOCUS (Fellowship of Catholic University Students) mission trip to Mexico City. One of the FOCUS missionaries told her that college campuses are a battlefield.
The missionary explained that in the eyes of the world, the people in Mexico had nothing–physically or materially, but what they did have was “joy.” However, on college campuses –in the eyes of the world– students have everything but what they lack is joy. It was
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