Meet Our staff and focus missionaries


Father Zach Weber

Chaplain & CATHOLIC CAMPUS MINISTRY DIRECTOR

Social Media: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram - @fatherzachweber


My podcast for my homilies can be found here, or on iTunes or the Podbean App.


Favorite Bible Verse: "Let there be light." ~ Genesis 1:3


Favorite Vacation/Retreat Spot: A peaceful beach in the summer.


Favorite Outdoor Activity: Bonfire with the guys and a good cigar.


What I'm most looking forward to this year: God moving in the hearts of students.


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Michaela erickson

Campus minister

Favorite Bible Verse: "Above all, let your love for one another be intense, because love covers a multitude of sins." ~ 1 Peter 3:8


Favorite Vacation/Retreat Spot: Catholic Youth Expeditions


Favorite Outdoor Activity: Bike riding and reading a book by a pond or river.


What I'm most looking forward to this year: Working with the interns and meeting with students to talk about the Faith.


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Grace Henrich

FOCUS Team Director

Favorite Bible Verse: ""I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. I will remove the heart of stone and from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh." ~ Ezekiel 36:26


Favorite Vacation/Retreat Spot: Catholic Youth Expeditions


Favorite Outdoor Activity: Hammocking


What I'm most looking forward to this year: Deepening friendships and good conversations.


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Joe niemerg

1st year FOCUS Missionary

Favorite Bible Verse: "Lord, if it is you, bid me come to you on the water." ~ Matthew 14:28


Favorite Vacation/Retreat Spot: Any mountains


Favorite Outdoor Activity: Swimming


What I'm most looking forward to this year: Deepening friendships 


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Teddy hall

1st year FOCUS MISSIONARY

Favorite Bible Verse: "Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord." ~ Romans 8:39


Favorite Vacation/Retreat Spot: Glacier National Park


Favorite Outdoor Activity: Pickleball


What I'm most looking forward to this year: Hangouts at the rectory and getting to go deeper with the guys and the Lord.


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Jessica Wilson

2nd year FOCUS Missionary

Favorite Bible Verse: "This is my beloved son, with whom I am well pleased." ~ Matthew 3:17


Favorite Vacation/Retreat Spot: The Rocky Mountains in Colorado


Favorite Outdoor Activity: Hammocking! 


What I'm most looking forward to this year: Sharing life with everyone in all of the little moments! 


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Clare Thomson

1st year FOCUS Missionary

Favorite Bible Verse: Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid." ~ John 14:27


Favorite Vacation/Retreat Spot: Around Traverse City, Michigan


Favorite Outdoor Activity: I love being outdoors! Hiking, running, picnicking, and hammocking are some of my favorites.


What I'm most looking forward to this year: Meeting so many new people and living life with them!


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Madison Oeftger

Student Intern

Favorite Bible Verse: "Brothers, I for my part do not consider myself to have taken possession. Just one thing: forgetting what lies behind but straining forward to what lies ahead." ~ Philippians 4:13


Favorite Vacation/Retreat Spot: The beach


Favorite Outdoor Activity: Going for a walk or playing with chalk


What I'm most looking forward to this year: Growing in my faith through the new experiences and also help/walk with others in their faith.


Sophie Roub

Student Intern

Favorite Bible Verse: "We love because He first loved us." ~ 1 John 4:19


Favorite Vacation/Retreat Spot: Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina


Favorite Outdoor Activity: Biking or praying the rosary in nature.


What I'm most looking forward to this year: Meeting incoming freshman and being more involved at Newman and bring Christ to campus!


Blake Churchwell

Student Intern

Favorite Bible Verse: "If we sin deliberately after receiving knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains sacrifice for sins." ~ Hebrews 10:26


Favorite Vacation/Retreat Spot: Rhinelander


Favorite Outdoor Activity: Biking and hiking


What I'm most looking forward to this year: Meeting new people


Katie McKearn

Student Intern

Favorite Bible Verse: "I consider that the sufferings of this present time are as nothing compared with the glory to be revealed for us." ~ Romans 8:18


Favorite Vacation/Retreat Spot: Camp Gray


Favorite Outdoor Activity: Hiking


What I'm most looking forward to this year: Welcoming incoming freshman


franki moscato

Music Minister

Favorite Bible Verse: "The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that seeks him. It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord." ~ Lamentations 3:25-26


Favorite Vacation/Retreat Spot: Anywhere in the middle of the woods.


Favorite Outdoor Activity: I love being outdoors! Ice skating outside with a campfire.


What I'm most looking forward to this year: Getting back into the routine of Sunday evening Masses and Adoration events, and encountering Jesus in the middle of the crazy college life!!

Mocha

Favorite Bible Verse: "She said, Please, Lord, for even the dogs eat the scraps that fall from the table of their masters." ~ Matthew 16:27


Favorite Vacation/Retreat Spot: Wherever Fr. Zach Weber is


Favorite Outdoor Activity: Chasing snowflakes


What I'm most excited about for this school year: Meeting all of the new students who come to the Newman Center.


Our Mission

We joyfully offer a different way to live.


Titan Catholics

Oshkosh Newman Center

800 Elmwood Avenue, Oshkosh, WI 54901

(920) 233-5555

titancatholics@gbdioc.org