Walking Together: How You Can Support a Friend Entering the Church this Easter

Accompanying someone into the Church is a great privilege, but what does it actually look like to walk with them well? 

In this episode, FOCUS staff and converts Travis Todd and Amber Cybulski join Jessica to talk about their experiences of conversion and how we can accompany someone entering the Church well. Travis, Amber, and Jess discuss:

• The most helpful things in OCIA and outside of it that prepared Travis and Amber to enter the Church
• Challenges that they had as they completed OCIA
• The experience of the Easter Vigil from the convert's perspective
• Advice for those accompanying someone entering the Church this Easter

Travis Todd is a convert to Catholicism and has worked for FOCUS for 18 years. Travis served 9 years as a campus missionary and team director before accepting a role at the FOCUS Denver Support Center. He currently serves as Senior Director of Formation. Travis resides in Arvada, Colorado, with his wife, Rebecca, and 7 children.

After converting to Catholicism in college, Amber worked as a middle school and high school teacher covering subjects such as Latin, Spanish, Salvation History, Logic, and Calculus. She left everything to join FOCUS in 2014, serving as a campus missionary and team director before joining the Formation Department in 2019. She's currently served as the Director of New Staff Training and resides in Toledo, OH with her husband, Steven, and 3, almost 4 children.