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PARADIGM
MISSIONS
COLLEGE AS A HINGE POINT
IMPORTANCE OF WHAT WE DO
Most college students experience loneliness, confusion, hopelessness and despair. These factors combined with all the temptations and turmoils of faith that await the newfound freedom on a college campus is what makes that time in college the most fundamental hinge point in someone’s life. It is unfortunately not surprising that 79% of former Catholics leave the Church before age 23. College students desire to know who they are, where they belong, and the plan for their life. The answer to these questions can only be found in a relationship with Jesus Christ found fully present in the Catholic Church. 150,000 students attend the State Universities and Community Colleges in San Diego where Paradigm Missions serves. Imagine those students transformed into missionary disciples, going into every element of society in San Diego, becoming our future teachers, lawyers, doctors, parents, priests, etc. No matter their career path, they will have the ability to powerfully affect and breathe life into our parishes, diocese and city for years to come.
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ABUNDANT HARVEST CAMPAIGN
The Abundant Harvest Campaign is aimed at two main goals. First, to help foster and flourish the outpouring we have seen at our Aztec Catholic ministry at the SDSU Newman Center. Second, to take that model used at SDSU, and bring it to CSUSM and our local community colleges so that we can experience a San Diego wide collegiate revival. In order to do this, we are seeking to raise $750,000 in donations and pledges over the next three years.
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For more info on this campaign and to find out how to join our mission and contribute to this revival in San Diego please click the image below.
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PILLARS OF PARADIGM MISSIONS
MISSIONAL
"“Evangelizing
is in fact
the grace
and vocation proper to the Church,
her deepest identity. She exists
in order to
evangelize.”
Pope Paul VI
COMMUNAL
"To make the Church the home and the school of communion: that is the great challenge facing us ... if we wish to be faithful to God's plan and respond to the world's deepest yearnings."
Saint John Paul II
LOCAL
"If you
want to change the world,
go home
and love
your family"
Saint Mother Teresa
PARADIGM MISSIONS EXPLAINED
Paradigm’s holistic approach to college ministry is founded on the pillars of being missional, communal, and local. Through this holistic approach we desire to create on-ramps into our college ministry from our local Catholic high school students as well as have systems in place to ease college alum into healthy Catholic life after college. This pivotal methodology of Paradigm Missions fosters inter-generational missionary investment that in turn lays the groundwork for communal pathways. This more practically looks like local families who invest in missionaries, who invest in college students, who invest in high school students. In turn, the high school students who were
ministered to by college students are more likely to participate in the local college
ministry. In addition, college students ministered to by missionaries are more likely
to become a missionary. Lastly, those college students and missionaries are more
likely to live out a rich Catholic community life in San Diego because of the
investment of the local adults and families. This cohesive interplay of both mission
and community, will grow and strengthen the Catholic Church here in San Diego
for generations to come.
Paradigm Missions is a San Diego based collegiate missionary apostolate. Young adults give 2+ years of their life to serve as a campus minister or missionary on our local college campuses. Our mission includes evangelizing and discipling students, leading Bible studies and small groups, as well as implementing retreats, conferences, and missions trips. In these individual and group settings, the missionaries help the students grow in their faith, develop a life of virtue and prayer, and learn what it means to live a life of mission.
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