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Los Angeles Summer Staff Team 2004
The whole LA team, from left to right: Cindy Neufeld,
City Director Rachel Hamilton, Heidi Hewitt, Ben Kraker, Lauren Pike, Kirby Fike,
Jordan Smoke, John Cummings, Becky Hendrickson, Co-City Director Kelly Reed and
Associate City Director Tim Reed.
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John Cummings - John is from San Luis Obispo,
California (1/2 way between LA and San Francisco) and attends California
Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, about 20 minutes North of downtown
LA. He's a junior majoring in Sociology with a music minor. His missions
experience includes house building and ministering in Tijuana, Mexico,
as well as a semester in Chiang Mai, Thailand, which was a big turning
point in his life. He is looking forward to working alongside of people
in the city and hearing people's stories.
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Kirby Fike - From Spokane, Washington, Kirby will
be a senior at California Lutheran University earning a degree in Psychology.
He's been on a few mission trips to Tijuana, Mexico. He loves the outdoors
and is excited to be ministering full time in an urban environment and
hopes to live out the Gospel every day this summer.
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Becky Hendrickson - Becky is a granola-head from Bothell,
Washington. After graduating from Whitworth College in 2002 with a degree
in Religion, she decided to pursue her passion for the inner city by working
with the Lutheran Volunteer Corps in D.C. and now with CSM. She has been
working at the LA site since January and after surviving an action-packed
spring she is excited about starting up the summer. Specifically, she
is excited about sharing the city she has fallen in love with to the groups
as well as working with the rest of the LA team.
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Heidi Hewitt - Heidi will be a senior at Judson College
in Elgin, Illinois majoring in youth ministry with a concentration in
multi-cultural studies. Last summer she ran the youth program at her home
church in Princeton, Illinois and this year has been leading a senior
high youth group at a local church near her school. She enjoys tennis
and has played for about 10 years. She also loves theatre, writing poetry,
and spaghetti!
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Ben Kraker - Ben was born in Holland, (West Michigan)
and raised in nearby Zeeland, MI. He attends Cornerstone University in
Grand Rapids and is a junior majoring in youth ministry. He has been traveling
around the country (yet never on an airplane... his first flight will
be to CSM LA) as a youth speaker, ministering at youth group meetings,
retreats, camps, inner-city churches, rural churches, wilderness camps,
and everything in between. He's a youth leader in his church's youth group
(Berkley Hills Wesleyan Church in Grand Rapids). Ben enjoys mountain biking,
canoeing, and being outdoors. His favorite band is Switchfoot. This summer
he wants to see God break through his own fears and false conceptions
so he can reach out to hurting people. He hopes the same thing will happen
in the lives of the students and the people of the city so everyone can
experience God's love and grace expressed to all those in need of His
touch.
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Cindy Neufeld - Cindy is from Bakersfield, CA and
is a senior at Fresno Pacific University in Fresno where she's majoring
in Contemporary Christian Ministries, and completing a minor in Business.
She has missions experience in Mexico, where she helped build a house
for a low-income family through Habitat for Humanity, has served as a
college group intern for her church in Fresno, and has been on two Urban
Immersion trips through CSM to Los Angeles. She enjoys spending time with
family and friends, playing sports (golf, soccer, and volleyball), and
trying new things. She loves going to the beach, Magic Mountain, and Christian
rock concerts. She hopes to learn more about urban ministry, growing in
her leadership skills as well as her understanding of Christ.
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Lauren Pike - Lauren is from Richmond, Virginia and
will be a senior at Virginia Tech (Go Hokies!). A Human Services major,
she's been on ten mission trips, three of which were CSM trips. She loves
urban missions and is very excited to immerse herself in Los Angeles and
to serve God and His children. She plans to pursue urban missions after
graduating. Her favorite place is Cape Cod, Massachusetts. She's on the
tennis team at her school and is an avid Virginia Tech football fan and
a Duke basketball fan!!
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Jordan Smoke - Jordan is from Pittsburgh, PA and is
a senior at Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio). He's majoring
in Biomedical Engineering (smart guy!) and hopes to be involved in medical
missions in the future. He's a leader of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes
chapter on campus and loves to play and watch soccer. While in high school,
Jordan went on several mission trips to Phillipi, West Virginia and last
summer ministered in Haiti with Youth with a Mission. He's looking forward
to learning how God works in the city and meeting lots of new people this
summer.
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