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Nashville Summer Staff Team 2007
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Clock-wise: Jason, Katie, Julie, Desirae,
Stephanie and Patrick
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Desirae Alipour
Desirae is from Charlotte, NC. She is a sophomore
at Lee University and has been working in the missions field for over a
year and a half now. She has gone to Mexico to build houses for families
and to Romania for a month last summer to visit orphanages and evangelize.
She has been working with middle school aged kids and high schoolers for
the past year as their missions coordinator. Desirae led small groups on her
trip to Romania and did multiple leadership tasks. She is very interested in
Art of all forms, especially abstract art, creating her own and painting with
acrylics. She enjoys bible studies, music, is a huge concert junkie, loves to
collect different versions of the bible and vintage shoes, can do a back flip,
and loves Thai and Indian food. "I am spending the summer in Nashville because
even before I had ever been there, this city was laid on my heart last summer.
I had been praying earnestly and hoping to get there soon, when this opportunity
to serve at CSM fell in my lap. I foresee an amazing outpour of God's spirit
taking over Nashville, and that city being used to transform lives. I am so
excited to be a part of this vision."
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Katherine "Katie" Gagel
Katie is from Louisville, KY. She majored in
organizational communication and minored in social work at Murray State
University. She has been involved in Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship
and has participated in four mission trips including Nassau, Bahamas
(twice), London, England, and Amsterdam, Netherlands. She has also
taken two side trips with Adventures in Missions to New Orleans to do
Katrina relief. She has been involved in Amnesty International at Murray
State University, and is a campaign coordinator for ending the use of
child soldiers. Katie has a passion for extreme evangelism, child soldiers,
Africa, the homeless, photography, music, and any form of art. This is
Katie's second summer in Nashville as a city host - "My prayer this summer
is to be stretched. I want to be radical for Jesus." Galatians 2:20.
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Stephanie Jones
Stephanie is from Raleigh, North Carolina and is a
rising junior at Greensboro College. She is majoring in Middle Grades
Education with a Math concentration and a Christian Education minor. She
has been on mission trips to Florida, Mexico (4 times), France, and CSM
in Nashville. At school she is involved in Student Christian Fellowship,
is on the Greensboro College women’s swim team, and is an orientation leader
for incoming students. Stephanie has worked with youth through assisting with
middle and high school church retreats, and being a counselor at an overnight
Christian summer camp in NC. She loves singing along to the radio, laughing,
random road trips, listening to country music, and taking fun pictures. “This
summer I am really looking forward to helping youth grow closer to God through
serving others in a local community. I am eager to serve as Christ’s hands and
feet and share His grace with others!”
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Jason Korner
Jason is from Tulsa, Oklahoma. This fall he will
be a senior at John Brown University majoring in Biblical and Theological
Studies. Most of the mission trips he has gone on took place in the inner
city - ministering to homeless and children. He has gone on CSM mission
trips to Houston and Chicago. In the summer of 2005 he worked as a youth
intern at St. Matthew’s United Methodist Church in Tulsa, OK, and in the
summer of 2006 he served as a youth intern at Boston Avenue United Methodist
Church in Tulsa. At both churches he worked with both junior and senior
high students. In his spare time Jason enjoys playing golf and throwing around
the frisbee. His dream job is to be a Halloween costume model. “By working
with CSM I hope to help youth develop a heart for forgotten and marginalized
people that inhabit every level of society.”
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Julie Martin
Julie is from Ruston, LA, the home of Louisiana Tech
University. She has finished her junior year as a Family and Child Studies
major with a concentration in Applied Child Development. She has been on
two CSM mission trips. The first was to Washington DC with her youth group
and the second was with the CSM High School Internship in Chicago. While in
college, she attended a month long mission trip to Costa Rica and helped with
hurricane relief in Pensacola and New Orleans. Julie has lead two junior high
girls' bible studies and volunteers with her youth group whenever they need
her. She enjoys playing guitar, singing, sitting in coffee shops and playing
with children! "This summer I want to create a passion in the youth's heart for
urban ministry."
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Patrick Wallace
Patrick Wallace is from Hawesville, KY. He's a sophomore at Murray State
University, majoring in Organizational Communication. He has served in
Hurricane relief, has led a student worship service at his home church and
as well as two youth conferences focused on the injustices of this world.
He enjoys playing the drums, driving around the city, playing tennis, and
talking with friends. One unique thing about Patrick is that he's half
deaf and proud of it! "My goal for this summer is to open the eyes of
everyone who enters into the ministry of CSM."
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