The UALR Catholic Campus Ministry was recently profiled in Arkansas Catholic, the official newspaper of the Little Rock Diocese.

The group is one of a handful of church-based organizations on campus that lends support in the spiritual journey that often coincides with young adulthood. The CCM offers a fellowship lunch once a week in Room E of the DSC to everyone, regardless of faith.

“We want our members to have a safe place, a place they can share with others the things that are going on in their lives,” said Jennifer Cordell, CCM vice president. “I think the thing that surprises people most about us is how we have such a good time doing it. There are a number of situations which are just funny and even though we sometimes discuss serious questions, it’s a very lively, very social kind of thing.”

While topics of faith and religion aren’t necessarily the first things that occupy the minds of young people in college this is, of course, an important time in the development of their spiritual lives. Members don’t pretend to be perfect or advertise themselves as having all the answers, although for many who attend the gatherings, questions abound. Through discussion and shared experience, answers are incubated communally.

Read the whole story and find out more about the CCM at UALR.