The Mountain Echo: FOCUS missionaries coming to campus

Katie Sechrist of Mount Saint Mary's reported April 30th in "The Mountain Echo" that FOCUS is coming to campus this coming Fall. Here is a snippet from Katie's article:

"FOCUS will be coming at the invitation of the archbishop of Baltimore and President Powell, there is a great desire for scripture and FOCUS provides trained individuals for that, they will also reach out to others. This will supplement what Campus Ministry is doing," said Msgr. Swetland, who is the East Coast chaplain for FOCUS and will be involved with their training as well as newly appointed Chaplain and Director of Campus Ministry, Fr. Brian Nolan.

In order for a team from FOCUS to come to a university, the bishop of that diocese must approve. Since there has been a transition within the diocese, one of the first things that Archbishop Edwin O'Brian did was approve for the group to come to the Mount at the request of President Powell.

Please read the article linked here! Here is a previous post done on this blog on FOCUS and its goals.