“The Holy Spirit seems to be doing something really fruitful with the camp,” said the diocese’s director of the Office of Evangelization and Missionary Discipleship, Chris Hurtubise, at the conclusion of the 2022 Extreme Faith Camp season.
With another huge jump in participation – from 334 in 2021 to 405 this summer – he added, “Numbers aren’t everything, but we’ve experienced growth by volume, by parish participation and by every other metric with this camp in ways that you just don’t see.”
“One of the things I love most about camp,” Hurtubise said, “is that it’s not just a static thing; we are constantly striving to be docile to the Holy Spirit continually refining our methods so that we can ever more richly impact young people in our disciple-making mission.”
This year’s theme was “Rescued,” loosely based on the book “Rescued” by Fr. John Riccardo, priest of the Archdiocese of Detroit and founder of ACTS XXIX. Fr. Riccardo advocates engaging with Catholics, both lay and priests, to revisit the good news of Jesus and rediscover the wonder of salvation. Extreme Faith Camp participants experienced a five-day walk through the basic message of the Gospel guided by the Michigan priest’s powerful preaching.
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