Christ In You - CMC is a 501(c)(3) charitable, tax-exempt organization,

Christ In You invites all men to renew his relationship with Jesus Christ and His Church. Our yearly men's conference features both local and national speakers and provides a platform for men to grow in their faith. When we strengthen the man, we strengthen the family. When we strengthen the family, we strengthen the Church, When we strengthen the Church, we change the culture. 

In 2018, our first men’s conference was planned and presented at the suggestion of Fr. Sinclair Oubre. Our presenter that year was “The Dynamic Deacon”, Dcn. Harold Burke-Sivers. Deacon Harold presented five – one-hour talks. We also incorporated the Liturgy of the Hours, a Divine Mercy Chaplet, and the opportunity to receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation into the event.  We held the conference in St. Francis Church over a 2-day period. Between the Friday evening and Saturday morning sessions, we averaged approximately 200 men, the conference was free of charge. We were able to obtain sponsorship funding from local Knights of Columbus councils as well as local Catholic owned business. The conference was deemed a huge success due to the number of attendees on limited exposure and personal testimonies from those in attendance.

Our 2019 conference was presented by Father Larry Richards and held the same format. Again, our attendance was excellent and reviewed as a success. We once again relied on sponsor funding and charged no fee to attend.

In 2020, we were challenged with organizing our 3^rd annual conference under the guise of COVID-19 and all the restrictions that plagued such events as ours. We set our sites on moving forward with the hopes of social restraints being somewhat relaxed by the fall season. Bear Woznick was our solo presenter, but we switched to a single-day event and charged admission. Charging admission served multiple purposes. Our sponsors were all economically strapped with the fallen economy and we also needed to control our number of attendees to help with social distancing in our venue. We also offered the opportunity to attend the conference virtually.  Although our attendance was 72, our men enjoyed the message of living life through manly virtue and the great story telling of adventure in God’s Will.

Our 4^th annual Christ in You – CMC took place on August 21, 2021. We changed to a multi-speaker event with an opening Mass celebrated by Bishop David L. Toups. Our line-up of speakers consisted of: Father Sinclair Oubre, Pastor of St. Francis of Assisi in Orange, Father David Michael Moses of St. Faustina Parish in Katy, Tx, Fr. Anthony McFarland of St. Joseph Parish in Port Arthur, and Joe McClane – Program Director of Guadeloupe Radio in Houston as well as an author and Catholic speaker. We continued with a Saturday only format concluding by 3:30 pm. Again, we charged admission with registration on Eventbrite

In 2022 we moved our conference to the Beaumont Civic Center and made a diocesan wide appeal to join our mission while "changing the world one man at a time". With Fr. Mark Toups,  John Edwards,  and Ryan Dellacrosse,  we presented a stellar men's conference with over 400 men registered. 
Also in 2022, we formed our own non-profit organization with tax exemption status - Thus becoming "Christ In You  - CMC".

As iron sharpens iron, we strive to sharpen each other to become better men for our families, our jobs, and in our spheres of influence.

We learned you don’t need to live feeling like you’re treading water. God designed you for more than earning a paycheck and getting stuff done.

Take off with us on a boundless frontier of opportunity. We’re on the adventure with the living Christ, growing into healthier, more honest, and more successful men. Real men in the real world.

Today, Ministry to Men exists to empower men to know and grow in Jesus Christ. As an arm of the local church, we help fulfill the Great Commission by going into our community and making disciples.

Christ in You invites each Catholic man to renew his relationship with Jesus Christ and his Church.

The New Evangelization calls each of us to deepen our faith, believe in the Gospel message and go forth to proclaim the Gospel. The focus of the New Evangelization calls all Catholics to be evangelized and then go forth to evangelize. In a special way, the New Evangelization is focused on re-proposing' the Gospel to those who have experienced a crisis of faith

Pope John Paul II is credited with coining the phrase "New Evangelization" as he considered pastoral situations involving communism in Eastern Europe, Marxism in Latin America, secularism sweeping Europe and the United States, evangelical movements in Africa and the effects of the nuclear age in the political realm. The New Evangelization is about the new situations that man finds himself in and how the Church makes pathways in those situations for man to know Christ, the Gospel and the communio of a believing community called the Church. Pope John Paul II wrote in his encyclical Redemptor Missio (1990) that these pathways are springtime for the Church and therefore not situations that we should turn our backs to or walk away from, since the Church is called to be in dialogue with all cultures of the world.

A key moment for the New Evangelization is the evangelization of culture, for it is here that believers live faith, discover their vocation and build up the Kingdom of God. Culture is not extraneous to the Gospel. Culture is formed and shaped by whatever forces are present. Culture by its very definition is organic and the very venue by which faith is experienced and lived. Many American Catholics live a dual life — keeping their faith as a private affair, while at the same time attempting to be good citizens by accepting whatever law is passed, whatever voice yells the loudest and whatever standard is purported to be socially acceptable. As a result, culture is poisoned, and the Gospel becomes less accessible.
Pope Benedict XVI met with all the bishops of the United States who were participating in their ad limina visits, which take place every five years or so. The Holy Father recognized in his addresses to the bishops the challenges we see in our culture regarding religious freedom and the relationship between faith and culture. We Catholics have nothing to be ashamed of in what the Gospel of Christ announces. In the history of our faith, when we Catholics are persecuted and when we choose to be faithful to the Gospel, the Church prevails.
The New Evangelization for American Catholics demonstrates that one can be a faithful Catholic and a patriotic American. Many voices in the political and social orders of American society have convinced Americans that intolerance is a sin against patriotism. Many Christians, therefore, have re-created the Gospel to mean one that tolerates abortion, same-sex "marriage," homosexuality, euthanasia, etc.

The direct threat to evangelization is secular humanism. Secular humanism replaces God and positions man as the goal of culture. American Catholics and believers of God remained silent overall. The social sins we see today in American society are the result of silence.

Today, however, we see young Catholics, young families, seminarians, young women in consecrated life, college students and many more who are no longer bashful about their faith. But we must be careful to not misplace our energies.

Pope Francis says, “The New Evangelization is about bringing the “light to the nations”.  Jesus Christ is the light we are sharing.  We must bring this light to our world today in a new way using new expressions and be on fire in doing so.  We must not be afraid but share the truths of our faith not in a defensive way but show it off with confidence.  Radiate the joy; God’s love inside us.  In joy, you can teach without preaching.”