CENTER for STUDENT MISSIONS

Katie Filkins

Katie is a Navy kid who ultimately calls Fairfax, Virginia home. She just finished the last semester of her undergraduate career at Elon University in North Carolina. She has spent the past three and a half years of college working towards a degree in Human Services with a concentration in criminal justice, and can’t wait to walk across the stage in May and be an official graduate. Throughout college, Katie spent all of her “free time” as a tutor, mentor, basketball coach, volunteer coordinator, and camp counselor at her local Boys and Girls Clubs in Burlington, NC and Washington, DC. Katie is specifically excited for the opportunity to work with CSM as a city host in New York City this spring, because she is looking forward to being in a divine position to share with others her passions for Christ, people, and service. While engaging in what she expects to be an absolutely incredible three months in the Big Apple, Katie is thrilled to currently be on a journey that will prayerfully take her to Eastern Europe this summer for the next two years with the Peace Corps.

Michael Myers

Michael was raised at the foot of the rockies in Fort Collins, CO. Music, sports, socializing and Jesus are the things that have been most important to him from an early age. He doesn’t ski a lot, but he does camp and hike often. For the past five years he’s lived in Portland, OR. Mountains to the east, ocean to the west! Four of those five years he attended Multnomah Bible College in the center of town. His love for the city started in large part while in Portland. May of 2007 he graduated and came on staff with CSM in February 2008.

Emily Strickler

Emily is from Snohomish, Washington, just north of beautiful Seattle. She graduated in May 2006 from Northwest Nazarene University with a BA in public communication. She has been to Mexico on mission trips several times and also to London, San Francisco, Seattle and New York. She has enjoyed working with jr. and sr. high students as well as freshman girls at her college. This is the second time Emily has been a City Host with CSM in New York City. One of her favorite things to do is to hang out with her friends in downtown Seattle. She also appreciates a great Jim Carey film and you wouldn’t be surprised to find her with an americano from Starbucks in her hand at any given time of day. Her goal is to share her passion and love for Jesus. “My goal is not to change the city. I just want to love people. The ministry trips that I went on in high school ignited my passion for inner-city ministry and my love for helping people. I want to help other kids find that passion as well.”