This is one in a series of student profiles to be featured in Connections. The profiles are part of a project to articulate the Viterbo difference through storytelling. Have a student story worth sharing? Email stories@viterbo.edu
By Eric Timmons
Casey Fremstad felt a calling to serve as a youth minister and the religious studies and theology senior is now well on the path to realizing her dream.
Fremstad completed a youth ministry internship in New Jersey last summer, which followed work as a camp counselor for two previous summers at a local bible camp that sparked her calling.
For her senior thesis, Fremstad is studying ways to connect with the Gen Z population in ways that make church relevant to their lives.
“How we can change our approach and our language to reach that generation and establish meaningful community that they can sustain into college, that’s what I’m working on,” Fremstad said.
She’s interviewing people working in youth ministry, intergenerational ministry, students, and others as part of the project, which she hopes to put to practical use when she becomes a youth minister after graduating from Viterbo.