ABSTRACT

As a campus minister, I journey with students throughout their university experience. I facilitate dialogue with their internal questions: Who is God calling me to be? How am I being called to learn, lead, and serve? How can I integrate my faith and professional life? Throughout this journey, the focus is on vocational exploration and discernment. This chapter illustrates how experiential learning opportunities offer ways for students to encounter God both in themselves and in their neighbors. Thus, graduating students are prepared to adapt, to listen, and to discern the voice of God while being empowered through faith to live a meaningful, extraordinary life.

The Callings, Chaminade Scholars, and Faith, Vocation and Leadership Houses programs are tools for awakening and attuning the hearts and minds of students to the movements of the Spirit. I describe these programs in detail. They are models that could be replicated or adapted for other settings.