Students are discovering a new way to have fun with their faith through Campus Ministry’s new club called The Beaten Path.
The Beaten Path is a small faith-sharing community structured around meetings on faith topics as well as a place for people to share their faith with others.
Current members said the new Fairfield club fills a void that existed in their lives.
“I loved my youth group back home and the outlet it gave me to openly talk about life and reflect on the role of faith in my life,” said member Colleen Gibson ’09. “I missed these weekly meetings when I got to college.”
Member Sarah Kopac ’08 said the new club was loosely based on the former Campus Ministry club S.O.S. (Sharing Our Stories).
“I feel like The Beaten Path is related to the idea they had [at S.O.S], but I wanted the idea to be looser,” she said. “I want people to be able to talk about what issues they feel they want to discuss which are related to their faith in their everyday lives.”
Kopac added: “I’m pretty psyched about The Beaten Path because I think it’s something that I and other students will be able to get a lot out of. People are sometimes afraid of their faith because it makes them feel guilty for not being ‘good’ enough.”
The meetings cover topics such as giving thanks, charity, trust, mercy, love and grace. The topics are broad so that discussions are wide-ranging and reflect students’ needs and ideas.
“They are topics that everyone can relate to in one way or another, which reoccur in our lives,” said Gibson. “We like to look at things from a unique perspective and have fun with our faith.”
Kopac added that the meetings are mainly centered on whatever people feel is important to discuss.
“It’s obviously a group geared towards college life since it’s made up of college students, and thus we are trying to come up with topics that relate to college life, and how our views and faith are changed because we’re in college,” she said. “Faith is serious, but it’s something we’re meant to enjoy; there is joy in it. We’re trying to spread joy and get people to recognize it in their lives.”
“We’re always looking for new people who are interested,” said Gibson.
The club meets every Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the Pedro Arrupe Campus Ministry Center. .
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