Opening up the school’s Instagram page and clicking on the newest reel, assistant campus minister Kayla Moylan’s face appears, preaching good deeds and faith-building challenges to help students connect. 

CMT, or Campus Ministry Team, Weekly Challenges began on Aug, 20 when Moylan became a member of the Campus Ministry Team along with Bill Creach, Deborah Schraeder and Father Mersmann.

“I really had it on my heart to do more here, reach more students and specifically pray with more students,” Moylan said. “I was hoping being in CMT would give me more opportunities for that.”

Moylan expressed that she knows the negative impacts of social media use and strives to counteract these consequences by encouraging students to connect and be present. 

“I think phones and social media have honestly increased our isolation, self-criticism, and anxiety as a culture,” Moylan said. “We were made for the relationship that is in front of us; the beautiful human that is sitting right across from you.”

Moylan strives to use her new position to influence students for the better on social media. Her first challenge was to come to a daily mass, influencing many students with the first post alone. 

“By the end of the week, we had 60 kids come to a daily mass, so just from that alone, I thought, ‘Okay, this is something,’” Moylan said. “We need to keep doing this.”

Moylan plans to continue CMT Weekly Challenges throughout the year, and with the challenges, she wants to encourage students to be vulnerable and reach out to others. 

“I just think our world is so full of things on social media, things out in the world, things on TV that are just not great for our souls,” said Moylan. “If we can put a little bit of kindness, a little bit of holiness, a little bit of God in these different places, I just feel like we will be raised up and feel better about ourselves as a whole.”