Ian Holmes

Hello! My name is Ian Holmes! Thank you for stopping by my page! Please consider joining me on mission as we reach out to others to win souls for Christ and His Church!

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Where I serve

As a first year missionary, I will be serving at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania! I am excited to go on mission for the Lord at this college with all of you!

My Story

I was raised Catholic all my life. I went to Mass every Sunday with my family and went to CCD to receive my sacraments. I also went to Calvert Hall College for my high school education. During the COVID-19 Pandemic, I began to truly search for God and what it meant to have a relationship with Him. After an experience with the Eucharist, I realized that I was a sinner in need of God’s mercy and that Jesus Christ truly died for my sins. This would lead me to go to confession six months later as I eventually came to the realization that the Catholic Church was the Church that Jesus Christ founded. During this time of my reversion in my freshman year of college I had a scary realization: many souls are being lost to the temptations of this world. This led me to have a desire to evangelize and get involved at my Newman Center at Towson University. It was here that I met my FOCUS missionaries.

They helped me to grow in my faith by leading Bible studies and walking with me in my faith by sharing their lives with me, whether that be sharing meals, watching movies, or playing Mario Kart together. I participated in outreach efforts with my missionaries on campus and enjoyed doing it that I wish I could’ve spent more time trying to reach students. I wanted to become a full-time missionary after college because of the fruits on Towson’s campus that I saw from the efforts of my missionaries and their mission partners.

My goal as a first-year missionary at Shippensburg University is threefold:

Help students know they are loved by God
Help students know that they were made to be loved by God
Help students to respond to God by knowing, loving, and serving Jesus Christ

Your Impact

When I said yes to FOCUS, I put my trust entirely in the Lord to provide for me.

I have decided to radically put my trust in God through the prayers and financial support of my mission partners. The support of my mission partners allows me to be generous with my students so finances will never be a barrier to someone hearing the Gospel.

There is nothing special about me as a missionary. With the generous help of my mission partners, through prayers and financial support, we can fulfill Jesus’s Great Commission (Mt 28:19-20) to make disciples of all nations and bring more souls into the Kingdom of God!

We are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses of the saints who have gone before us, encouraging us to run the race so as to win it (Heb 12:1). Jesus has already won the battle of death for us (1 Cor 15:57). We have nothing to lose and everything to gain by going on this journey to save souls! Will you join me?

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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