Meet Art
Art Bamert, Jr. is a cradle Catholic who grew up in St. Louis, MO. He attended Catholic middle school and high school and then headed west to the Rockies to seek his fortune and find the meaning of life. He ended up learning how to ski, rediscovering his faith and meeting his lovely wife Donna. Art has been married for over 30 years to his wife Donna, a pediatric Oncology nurse. They have two children and reside in the beautiful bucolic Borough of Elizabethtown, PA.
Art has worked with young people since 1990 in various capacities as a volunteer and as a paid Catholic minister. In 1990 Art began an almost ten year stint as weekly volunteer with the Child Life Department at the Pediatric Hospital at Hershey Medical Center, spending time working with and supporting young people and their families as they coped with disease and illness. That effort led to his involvement with Camp Can-Do (founded in early 1980’s) one of the very first summer camps for children with cancer, serving as a counselor then directing Arts and Crafts for one of the two weeks of camp.
In 1997 he was invited by his new Pastor to take an unofficial volunteer led youth ministry program and make it an official part of the life of the parish. He took on the task of setting that program up as the parish’s first Director of Youth and Young Adult Ministry. In 2006 he moved to campus ministry and began his service at Lancaster Catholic High School, in Lancaster Catholic High School as the Associate Director of Campus Ministry. He held that position through the spring of 2018. In May of 2018 he accepted the position of Interim Director of Campus Ministry. During his time at Lancaster Catholic he was instrumental in helping to develop and manage a Campus Ministry program that includes over two dozen retreat options and a large campus ministry center serving students and faculty.
Art has authored numerous articles, ministry materials, and prayers for Catholic youth, including a Stations of the Cross and is currently working on a novel for young adults. Art speaks to youth and adults on a variety of topics as well as planning and running retreats. His favorite being the Lord of the Rings Retreat that he conceived and developed with the help of fellow faith filled Lord of the Rings devotes from Lancaster Catholic High School.
Art also began to develop his skills at live audio and stage production, and video and film making. Over the last ten years he has engineered audio and designed lighting and visuals for concerts and youth ministry events. He has helped produce numerous films and commercials for Lancaster Catholic High School.
He is a student of Catholic apologetics and loves to talk about anything that has to do with Christ or His Church. Art is an active member of Seven Sorrows Parish in Middletown PA. He spent over ten years volunteering with his sons Boy Scout troop. He loves hiking, camping and fishing and is known to be serious about cooking and is very serious about smoking meat and the word on the street is his BBQ is legit.
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Lord of the Rings, 12 Angry Men, Song of Bernadette, The Incredibles.
Gospel of John
St. Faustina
John Paul II, St. Faustina, Bl. Pier Geogiro Frasati
BBQ and bacon
Rocky Mountains