Andrew Karka

Laudetur Iesus Christus!

Where I serve

Our Lord has been pleased to give my team and I the opportunity to be the first FOCUS missionaries to serve the students of the University of Wisconsin-Stout in Menomonie, Wisconsin. May He be blessed forever.

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My Story

The seeds of my relationship with Our Lord were planted in the waters of baptism when I was merely an infant. This baptism of mine was the only part of my childhood and adolescence that bore any degree of religiosity, but thank God He put the idea in my grandma’s mind, and she in my mother’s!

I, and my family with me, ignored His many invitations to know Him, satisfied–if one could call it that–as I was with the life I was living. My childhood and adolescence, although admittedly not unfamiliar with good times by God’s unknown goodness, can nevertheless be best described only with mostly troubling language. The height of my godless misery reached its peak in early college when the limits of my finitude finally met their end, and in the desperation that Saint Augustine so eloquently puts on the lips of all penitents escaped my own, “O Lord my heart is restless until it rests in Thee!”

By God’s good grace and infinite mercy, in 2023, in Akron, Ohio I returned to His Church and found forgiveness, strength and sustenance in His holy Sacraments on that year’s Easter Vigil.

Thereafter (and ever since) I have ceaselessly tried to offer Him as much as I can in return for the limitless blessings He has offered to me. My desire, certainly at times imprudently directed, led me to seminaries, Institutes, and hermitages, but Our Lord was pleased to show me that His holy Will for me is matrimony and mission work.

My wife Meghan and I are expecting our first child in August of 2026, and intend to continue serving our great God with FOCUS for as long as we know this to be His holy Will!

Your Impact

I am so grateful to this God of ours that He has been pleased to use me and my team for the benefit of these dear students at Stout. We are currently walking with many, and are very satisfied with the results that Our Lord has granted us since beginning here in August of 2025. May we continue to be docile to His holy Will so that the fruit He has already foreknown to be abundant may be borne in His due season. Amen.

Our Exodus90 ’26 group.

Stout’s Male Commissioned Disciples.

The Wednesday Men’s Bible Study.

The celebration of Tristan’s entrance into the Church on Divine Mercy Sunday ’26

The current Disciples of the University of Wisconsin Stout.

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Host	Retreat Type	Start Date	End Date
Tulane University	Way of the Disciple	09/05/24	09/07/24
University of Nebraska Lincoln	The Sanctifier	09/13/24	09/15/24
Parish Outreach	The Father’s House	09/16/24	09/18/24
Kansas State University	The Father’s House	09/20/24	09/22/24
University of Delaware	Rec	09/20/24	09/22/24
University of South Carolina – Columbia	Rec	09/27/24	09/29/24
St. Francis University	The Father’s House	10/04/24	10/06/24
Nicholls State University	The Father’s House	10/04/24	10/06/24
Northwestern State University	The Father’s House	10/11/24	10/13/24
University of Memphis	The Father’s House	10/11/24	10/13/24
Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville	The Father’s House	10/18/24	10/20/24
Ohio State University	The Father’s House	10/18/24	10/20/24
University of Dallas	The Sanctifier	10/24/24	10/26/24
Central Connecticut State University	The Father’s House	10/25/24	10/27/24
Universidad de Monterrey	The Father’s House	10/25/24	10/27/24
California State University – Fullerton	The Father’s House	10/25/24	10/27/24
Sts. Anne and Joaquim, Fargo, ND	Way of the Disciple	11/01/24	11/03/24
University of Krems	Men’s	11/01/24	11/03/24
University of Mary	The Father’s House	11/08/24	11/10/24
DePauw University	Rec	11/08/24	11/10/24
Philanthropy Engagement	Way of the Disciple	11/15/24	11/17/24
University of Passau	Rec	11/21/24	11/23/24
Texas A&M University	The Sanctifier	02/07/25	02/09/25
FOCUS Greek Southeast	The Father’s House	02/14/25	02/16/25
FOCUS Greek Midwest	The Father’s House	02/14/25	02/16/25
Worcester Polytechnic Institute	The Sanctifier	02/14/25	02/16/25
FOCUS Greek Southwest	The Father’s House	02/21/25	02/23/25
Wayne State University	The Father’s House	02/21/25	02/23/25
University of Illinois-Chicago	The Sanctifier	02/21/25	02/23/25
Queens College of the City University of New York	The Father’s House	03/07/25	03/09/25
Nicholls State University	Way of the Disciple	03/07/25	03/09/25
Grand Valley State University	The Father’s House	03/28/25	03/30/25
University of Northern Iowa	Way of the Disciple	04/03/25	04/05/25
University of Nebraska Lincoln	The Father’s House	04/04/25	04/06/25
Arizona State University	Men’s	02/07/25	02/09/25
University of Nebraska at Kearney	Rec	09/27/24	09/29/24