‘Refuge’ was the theme for this year’s Steubenville youth conferences, an outreach of the Franciscan University of Steubenville, which is a series of 25 conferences across North America that help teens encounter the love of Christ every summer.

This year was the 8th year of OITS organizing this trip. This July, we were in Ohio with 9 kids and 2 chaperones. The experience was simply “Transformational.” The conference had 2000 other teens from all over the US, participating in something that was, extraordinary, energetic, participatory, and relevant to our kids. In their own words, “I did not zone out” and it helped me to open up to the Lord.

AT OITS we are already waiting for the next year’s event -”Ignite.”