Win, Build, Send: FOCUS Missionaries Move Into the Parish - Gregory Kinser - 09/14/2026

The Catholic Morning Show · Sep 14, 2026 · 11m

Gregory Kinser joins Deacon Mark Campbell as a full-time FOCUS parish missionary at St. John Paul II Parish in Carroll, Iowa — part of a new push by the Fellowship of Catholic University Students to take its campus model into parishes after 25 years of college ministry.

Gregory's own introduction to FOCUS was atypical. He attended Iowa State from 2017 to 2021 without ever connecting with the missionary team there, and only encountered FOCUS later through his now-wife Chloe, who was a few years behind him. What struck him first wasn't a program — it was the missionaries' personal prayer lives…