Harry, a foreign exchange student from mainland China, student at Quincy Notre Dame High School, and a member of LEAD, shared with us tonight about the love of the Father.

As he began his studies in the United States, he began to struggle with loneliness. He didn’t feel loved by anyone. He missed his dad.

After transferring to Quincy Notre Dame High School, he started to grow in his relationship with Christ.

Eventually, he attended a Steubenville conference and during Adoration he realized that the place his earthly father cannot reach, his Heavenly Father is there.

After the conference, he decided to become Catholic, and he will be baptized at this coming Easter Vigil Mass!

Harry wants us to know that when you feel that you are not being loved, your Heavenly Father is with you!

Jimmy Mitchell kicked off Steubenville 2018 with the first talk, The Father’s Love Revealed. He encouraged everyone to embrace what it means to be a child of God through vulnerability and our weaknesses.

Mitchell discussed the feeling of being small and broken. He experienced these feelings visiting the grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes. After a day of adventuring, he was covered in mud and scratches and felt small approaching this holy grotto. But, once he began to enter the healing water at Lourdes, those feelings of being small, dirty, and broken were “overshadowed by the vulnerability.” In the grotto in prayer he said he was, “feeling little, feeling vulnerable in many ways feeling all of my brokenness but specifically feeling it in light of God’s merciful infinite love.” We are imperfect, small, and vulnerable, but God continues to love us unconditionally and recklessly.

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David and Rachel Leininger have been married almost three years, with three kids in tow (one in Heaven, one at home, and one on the way), but that couldn’t stop them from making the trek to SteubySTL – David as part of the production crew, Rachel as a part of the speaking ministry team.

This is a place near and dear to their hearts. In fact, the first time they were ever in the same room was the JQH Arena, they just didn’t know it…

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