2020 Youth Conferences
Based in St. Paul, Minnesota, Sonar is a collection of musicians who seek to draw closer to Christ through music. Sonar’s engaging style draws inspiration from a breadth of genres from electronic dance music to country and bluegrass while finding roots in modern worship music and traditional hymns. Sonar is Nate Reinhardt (vocals/guitars), Caroline Metzinger (vocals/keyboards), Nate Lamusga (guitars/banjo), Christian Ankrum (bass/vocals), and Reese Kling (drums).
Michael Gormley, or “Gomer” as his friends call him, struggled with faith, belief, and the existence of God for years. He eventually found his way to God through studying whether the resurrection of Jesus Christ was real. He has degrees in philosophy and theology, a family, works at a parish with adults, and runs three side businesses: the Catching Foxes Show, Every Knee Shall Bow, and LayEvangelist.com
Father Rick Martignetti, OFM, is a Franciscan priest in the Order of Friars Minor who holds a doctorate in sacred theology and Franciscan spirituality from the Pontifical University Antonianum in Rome. He has served God through preaching, teaching, campus ministry, spiritual direction, retreat ministry, formation work, youth ministry, and pilgrimage work. He is currently director of Campus Ministry at Ave Maria University in Florida. His latest book, Perfect Love: 40 Stories and Reflections Inspired by Saint Bonaventure’s De Perfectione Vitae, is available from Tau Publishing. Check out his 2-Minute Homilies on YouTube or through his blog, fatherrick.wordpress.com.
Dan Harms is a host and speaker who attended his first Steubenville Conference as a teen in 2000. His speaking and music ministries have led him to 46 states and six countries. He lives in Richmond, Virginia, with his wife and children and is the director of Evangelization at Saint Bridget Catholic Church.
