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As someone who speaks, teaches, or preaches for a living, one of the last things I would want to be called is “unoriginal”. I associate that word “unoriginal” with words like boring, lame, predictable or unimaginative. And one of my biggest fears as a communicator, especially one for the Gospel of Jesus Christ, is having people use any of those words to describe me or my speaking.
And yet there it is, unoriginal, even with all of it’s negative connotations, is PRECISELY a word all Catholic speakers need to aspire to. My mind was changed through my conversation today with Hilary Draftz, the West Area Director for FOCUS, as she used this word, unoriginal, to describe an important conviction she has about speaking to Catholic audiences.
Hilary Draftz became a full-time FOCUS missionary in 2005 after earning a bachelor's degree in Film Studies and English Literature from the University of Colorado in Boulder. Hilary is currently serving as director of the West Area, leading a team of 6 regional directors who work directly with over 200 missionaries on 44 college campuses from California to North Dakota. She earned a Master of Arts in Theology from the Augustine Institute in 2021. And also in 2021, Hilary and her husband Tim adopted 5 amazing kids.
Connect with Hilary here: https://www.focus.org/missionaries/hilary-draftz
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