The Frank J. Lewis Institute for Campus Ministry Orientation

June 6 – 11, 2010

Come and meet other campus ministers from colleges and universities who have been in direct ministry with college students for one to three years. There will be academic input and discussion, prayer opportunities, social time, community building and time to refresh and renew.

The FJL Institute will address all six aspects of Campus Ministry as described in Empowered by the Spirit: Campus Ministry Faces the Future, the bishops’ 1985 pastoral letter on campus ministry.

Forming the Faith Community

This presentation will explore the call to create a sense of Christian community in an academic environment that depends on solidarity and collaboration, but also knows loneliness, alienation, and the desire for personal relationships. Through experience of Word, Sacrament, and the ministry of presence, campus ministers will be encouraged to build faith communities where all may experience acceptance, healing, and empowerment.

Appropriating the Faith

The campus minister’s responsibility to enable college students to achieve a more adult understanding of their faith will be the focus of this presentation. The presenter will explore strategies to stimulate and enhance theological learning and to call students to more effective witness to the Gospel in the face of intellectual and social challenges from the academic world and the larger culture.

Forming the Christian Conscience

The focus of this presentation will be to explore the critical role of campus ministers in assisting students to understand and practice Christian values and ethics as they deal with the questions and complexities of the moral problems generated by campus life and the larger society.

Educating for Justice

This presentation will call special attention to the need to teach and learn the coherent body of Catholic social thought. It will emphasize the need for campus ministers to educate students to a vision of the Church on campus as a consistent and vigorous advocate for justice, peace, and reverence for life.

Facilitating Personal Development

The emphasis in exploring this theme will be to encourage campus ministers to recognize the rich opportunities that exist in an academic environment to help students integrate their collegiate experience with their Christian faith. As persons of prayer who are serious about their own growth in faith, campus ministers can be powerful witnesses to young people who are establishing identities, forming relationships, discerning vocations, and charting the direction of their lives.

Developing Leaders for the Future

This presentation will focus on the challenge for campus ministers to encourage students, staff, and faculty to identify their gifts and use them for the common good. Campus ministers will be encouraged to create an awareness of the nature of Christian leadership as a sense of loving service and as a vocation we all receive from God.

Participants are encouraged to bring their musical instruments.

Frank J. Lewis Institute Fee (including room and board): $750.00

Housing
Your institute registration fee includes your housing needs.

All of our guests will be able to stay on campus for this institute with single and double rooms available along with common bathrooms and showers. We have a limited number of single rooms available on a first-come first-served basis. Please indicate on your application your preference for rooms (single or double) and for roommates. All rooms are air-conditioned and near the locations you will need to access.

• Common recreation area in residence hall with internet access
• Laundry facilities
• Nationally award winning food service available in South Dining Hall with wide variety of options. Three meals a day provided.
• Classrooms available with state of the art technology in the Coleman-Morse Center
• All buildings are handicapped accessible and within easy walking distance of one another — no more than 5 minutes
• Recreational opportunities include tennis, swimming, golf and access to fitness centers.
• Notre Dame Our Mother Chapel in the Coleman-Morse Center available for personal and common prayer
  The Grotto, Basilica of the Sacred Heart, residence hall chapels are all sacred spaces that can be used for prayer throughout the institute.
• All facilities are air conditioned

For more information, please contact Darrell Paulsen at 631.5827 or dpaulse1@nd.edu