Get Involved With Us!
Meet your Catholic community on campus, get plugged into a weekly Bible study, and find your home at Cal State Long Beach in the body of Christ, the Church.
We have an intentional, wide range of events lined up to welcome you, just as you are, and hope that you will take the leap and join us! Please reach out via Slack if you have any logistical questions (i.e., needing a ride).
Check out some of our upcoming events below!
Upcoming Events
SEEK25
Each year, we bring 60-75 students from Beach Catholic to SEEK, a national annual Catholic conference held during the first week of January! It is a week of talks from famous Catholic speakers, celebrating the sacraments with 20,000 other college students from across the world, and truly encountering the Lord together in the body of Christ. Almost every single student that has gone to SEEK in the past has said that it was one of the most incredible and spiritually nourishing weeks of their lives because they met the living God face-to-face.
Spots fill up quick! You can register at https://seek.focus.org and put Cal State Long Beach as your campus if you would like to go with us.
When: January 1-5, 2024
Where: Salt Lake City, UT (we will be bussing there with other FOCUS schools in SoCal)
Cost: $549 event pass if you register before Oct 29 + hotel and travel costs*
SEEK promo video: https://youtu.be/lwQYrD3M0-8?si=wFg79slytiq72A9Q
*if experiencing financial difficulty, scholarships are available! Reach out to a FOCUS missionary via Slack. We never allow finances to be a barrier for a student to go on a retreat or trip where they will encounter Christ. The missionaries also coach students on how to fundraise, if that is of interest to someone to lower the cost
Fall Retreat 2024
For this year’s fall retreat, we will be joining Titan Catholic (Catholic community at Cal State Fullerton) in Idyllwild, CA for “The Father’s House” FOCUS retreat. We will be diving into the closeness and healing mercy of God’s Fatherhood through talks, small groups, the sacraments, and prayer periods. Participants can expect to receive a better understanding of the Father’s individual Love for them by the end of this retreat, going forth with conviction that their identity never wavers as His son or daughter.
Dates: October 25-27, 2024
Location: Idyllwild, CA
Spots: 40
Cost: $300*
*scholarships available, please contact a FOCUS missionary if experiencing financial limitations
Men’s & Women’s Group
Every third Wednesday night of the month we will have men’s and women’s nights, discussing topics related to Catholic femininity and masculinity. The men and women will come together at the end of the night for a co-ed social.