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| Chicago Summer Staff Team 2007
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| Back row, from top to bottom:
Matt, Jesse, Associate City Director Julia, Justin, Erin, and City Director Tim
/ Middle Row: Rebecca, Kristin, Kara, and Tim / Front Row: Associate City Director Melanie,
Christina, Anne, Laura, Katie and Heidi |
Jesse Bolinder
Jesse Bolinder grew up in Grand Rapids, MI. He will start
his first year at North Park Seminary this fall, pursuing a MA in Christian Formation
with a MM in Non-profit Administration. At Hope College, he participated in two
CSM mission trips—Toronto and DC. The past two and a half years Jesse and
his wife, Megan, have served as short term missionaries in Yokohama, Japan
where they taught English at a senior high school and developed and led
a high school ministry to Japanese students. Prior to Japan, his experience with
students was mostly in the summer camp/youth group context.
Jesse is a tall, quiet, laid back person with spurts of silly behavior. He loves the
outdoors, plays a little guitar, and has some smooth dance moves up his sleeve.
“My goal this summer is to be a good neighbor and to join Jesus Christ in his work
of loving people. Through all the relationships this summer, I want to see God’s
kingdom come. I want to grow and I want to sow.”
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Anne Clausen
Anne is a senior at North Park University here in
Chicago, majoring in Biblical and Theological Studies. She had the
chance to live in Ecuador for 10 months at Covenant Bible College. She
has been on mission trips to Tulsa, Mexico, Minneapolis, Chicago, Ecuador
and Mississippi. Anne has also worked as a couselor at a christian camp
for two summers and worked with street kids in Ecuador, where she taught
English. She loves her friends, the beach, art, summer and popsicles. "I
am working with CSM because I want to make friends in the heart of a city
and work with others to feed the poor."
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Kara Emmering
Kara was born in the village of Fremont in Northeastern
Wisconsin. She graduated from Weyauwega-Fremont High School in 2005. She will
be a junior next fall at North Park University in Chicago where she is studying
sociology and non-profit business. Kara has been on two mission trips, one to Kiln,
MS, and the other to New Orleans, LA, to help with hurricane relief work. She is
also a leader for the campus chapter of International Justice Mission and loves
sports, baseball and softball in particular. She plays third base for the North
Park softball team. Kara was born and raised a Cubs fan! Throughout the past few
years of living in Chicago, she has begun to see many problems in the city. "I
have a passion for justice and would like to work in this area in the future.
I am looking to gain experience and to see the changes that can be made
throughout the summer."
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Erin Jenkins
Erin Jenkins is from Kansas City, Missouri and the Chicago
area. She moved to the Chicago suburb of St. Charles when she was a senior in
high school. Currently Erin is a senior at Hope College in Holland, Michigan,
majoring in Social Work with a Spanish minor. She has traveled to five different
Spanish-speaking countries and all over the United States doing mission work to
spread the love of Christ. She enjoys traveling, coffee dates, long walks,
experiencing new cities, hearing stories from others, working with children and
laughing. Erin has fallen in love with Chicago in the four years she has lived
there and is excited to share the city with those around her. She is looking
forward to learning more about the issues facing those living in the city and
being able to serve wherever God calls her.
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Rebecca Miller
Rebecca is from Bedford, IN and will be a Junior
at the University of Evansville in the fall, majoring in Secondary Social
Studies Education. She has done mission work in Panama City, FL, where
she served spring breakers by praying for them, giving them free van rides,
serving them free food, and sharing her testimony with them. Rebecca has
also done mission work in Reynosa, Mexico at a children’s orphanage. There
she helped lead VBS and built relationships with the kids. Currently she
helps lead a youth group of junior high and high school students at a local
church in Evansville. She is also a member of Student Christian Fellowship.
She loves playing any sports, especially volleyball and softball, bike-riding,
singing and music, playing board games, and meeting new people. "My goal this
summer is to love people like Jesus loved people and to become a servant. I
am so excited to be working in Chicago because it is going to challenge me,
stretch my faith, and prepare my heart for working with youth in the future."
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Tim Miller
Tim grew up in Park Ridge, IL (a suburb of
Chicago). He is a junior at Judson College majoring in youth ministry
with a minor in Biblical studies. He has been a part of missions projects
in the Gulf Coast and Costa Rica. He has experience serving in churches
of several denominations- Evangelical Free, Non-Denominational, Lutheran,
and United Church of Christ, as well as experience with parachurch organizations
(Younglife) and camps (Camp Awana, Silver Birch, and Younglife camp). He enjoys
doing just about anything outdoors, music, and is the world’s biggest Cubs fan.
"I look forward to challenging students this summer while I, myself, am challenged
to serve in an urban setting so that others are touched by Christ’s love and God
is glorified."
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Laura Reinhardt
Laura Reinhardt is from Tulsa, OK. She just finished
her first year at John Brown University in Siloam Springs, AR, majoring in
Family and Human Services with a minor in Spanish. Throughout high school,
she attended multiple inner-city mission trips to Houston, Cincinnati, and North
Tulsa and three overseas mission trips to Costa Rica, Mexico, and Russia. She
also led a small group of eighth grade girls and worked as a junior high intern
for two summers. Currently at John Brown she volunteers at a local youth group
in Siloam where she hangs out with junior high and high school students. Laura
really enjoys spending quality time with friends and family, the outdoors,
running, and watching movies. "I am really looking forward to working with CSM
students. I hope to encourage them spiritually and to help teach them about having
servant’s hearts."
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Katie Sattler
Katie Sattler hails from Cadillac, Michigan.
She is a recent graduate of Central Michigan University with a degree
in Theatre. She is hoping to combine her passion for the arts and
children, in an after-school program centered around drama. Katie has
traveled to both Toronto and New York City on mission trips and hopes
to experience many more adventures in the city at future opportunities.
She loves long walks on the beach, movies in the park, dancing in the
rain, and eating massive amounts of ice cream without a single guilty
glance at the calorie count. Katie is excited to see what God has
planned for this summer at CSM. "I simply wants to be a handmaid of
the Lord and to give Him the glory in all I do."
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Kristin Service
Kristin Service is originally from Shawnee, KS,
but moved to Chicago about four years ago to go to school. She just
graduated from North Park University and is very excited about what
God will accomplish with her in the future. Kristin is working with
CSM this summer because she is very passionate about the inner city,
the fight against poverty, and youth. She loves Chicago, from the moment
she arrived!
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Matt Siehoff
Matt is from Glen Ellyn, IL and will be entering
his junior year at Hope College this fall where he’s pursuing a Computer
Science major with a Religion minor. He has been on about eight mission
trips, about half being construction trips while the other half more
relationally oriented. In Holland, MI he volunteered at a junior high youth
group and has tutored an elementary school student for a year and a half.
He also helped as a leader on a Senior High mission trip to Mexico last summer.
Matt enjoys playing sports, especially basketball, Frisbee, soccer and volleyball.
"I’m looking forward to understanding the culture of the city better and to
seeking God and serving him this summer."
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Heidi Snyder
Heidi is from Flushing, MI and will be a senior
at Hope College next year, majoring in Math for Secondary Education. She
experienced CSM for the first time on a Spring Break missions trip to Toronto,
and has also done missions trips in Massachusetts, Tennesee, Mississippi, Illinois,
and South Africa. She loves Jr. and Senior High students and has counseled camp
for a number of years as well as tutored several students. Heidi also has a
heart for kids with special needs and has worked with these students in both the
camp and the school setting. She loves rollerblading, playing bocce ball, making
jewelry, playing the piano, and reading in her free time. She believes that God's
heart is for love and justice and is seeking after that same heart. "In working
in Chicago, I hope to bring God's love to the marginalized and oppressed and open
students' eyes to the ways that God's kingdom can be brought to earth."
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Justin Swanson
Justin was born and raised in Omaha, NE, and graduated
this spring from Trinity International University with an English/Communications
Degree. Ever since Junior High, ministry has been an important part of his life,
prompting participation in numerous missions and ministry trips to locations all
over the world. He's been on two missions trips to Mexico and one to the Dominican
Republic, as well as multiple ministry trips with his college choir and band to
locations as diverse as Grand Junction, CO, Bergen, Norway, and Budapest, Hungry.
As a college grad set adrift, Justin is working to define his passions and allow
God to direct his steps as he tries to figure out what to do with himself. When not
contemplating his future, Justin enjoys reading, writing, traveling, exploring,
playing football and soccer, watching good movies, listening to good music, eating
good food, and following Nebraska Football in a way that borders on pseudo-obsessive.
This summer with CSM is a thrilling opportunity for Justin, who cannot wait to see God
work in his life and the lives of those around him as they bring His love to many who
desperately need it in the city of Chicago.
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Christina Tassoni
Christina Tassoni grew up in Troy, Michigan, which is in
the Metro Detroit Area. She is going to be a sophomore at Hope College in
Holland Michigan, majoring in communications. She is very passionate about
youth ministry and hopes to do somehting in that field in the near future.
Christina has never lived in Chicago before, but she is very excited to be
in a big city and work with inner city youth this summer. Christina has been
on many missions mission trips in the US and has also gone to Lima, Peru.
She is very interested in going back to Peru some day. She enjoys Italian
food, iced tea, and the color yellow. "I can't wait to just love on the
children here and to share God's love not only to them, but to the high
schoolers and middle schoolers that are coming here to serve for the summer."
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