University of Minnesota Staff

Campus Outreach had a huge impact on both Paul and Samm in helping them understand more fully what it meant to trust and live by the gospel of Jesus Christ. This took place as they participated in discipleship at Presbyterian College. Paul became a Christian at the age of eleven when he was growing up in Spartanburg, SC. Samm remembers desiring a relationship with Christ after her father explained that nothing else was sufficient for acceptance by God. Though they met in college, they worked on different campuses with Campus Outreach Greenville, Samm for 5 years at Western Carolina University and Paul for 3 years at his alma mater. They both came to Minneapolis in 2003 for the initial launch of COM. Three years later, they were married and continue to enjoy working together at the University of Minnesota. They have a little girl named Maddux Elysia who was born on October 25, 2008.
ppoteat@cominneapolis.org
spoteat@cominneapolis.org

Brittany became a Christian during her freshman year at the University of Minnesota. God used a relationship with one of the campus staff girls to make the gospel clear to her. She spent her college career being very active in the ministry by being discipled by a staff girl and starting to pour her life into other women in her sorority. Brittany joined the CO Minneapolis team Fall 2007.
bhayes@cominneapolis.org

The Lonergans have been married for two years. They currently work on the U of MN campus. Eric graduated from the U of MN in 2006, and Holly graduated from Western Carolina University in 2002. Both Eric and Holly were greatly impacted by the ministry of Campus Outreach while students in college, and they desire to see other lives impacted for Christ.
elonergan@cominneapolis.org
hlonergan@cominneapolis.org

Erin became a Christian while a student at the University of Minnesota. The concept of fullness of joy in Jesus Christ shifted her paradigm about what it meant to be a Christian. After attending the New Years Conference in 2004, she gained vision for ministering on the campus. She graduated from the U of M in May 2006 and joined the Campus Outreach staff team in March 2007. She works on the U of M campus.
emartin@cominneapolis.org

Matt graduated from Furman University and worked on staff with Campus Outreach there for two years, after which he moved to Minneapolis to begin ministering at Northwestern and Bethel. In the process, he met Lisa, a student from the U of Minnesota who had been discipled by Samantha Poteat and Jennifer Owen. They eventually began dating and were married in February 2006. Matt ministered at Northwestern and Bethel for two years and then transitioned with Lisa to the U of Minnesota. He and Lisa both minister full time there. They have one daughter Annie who was born on October 19 of this past year.
mreagan@cominneapolis.org
lreagan@cominneapolis.org

Nick went through a big change his freshman year at Minnesota after realizing he couldn't earn God's favor -- that God's grace was given to him freely (Eph 2:8) . He is going to be pioneering in the office and ministering to students in the evenings at the U of M. He is recently married to Katie Vanderheyden (now Katie Stromwall) and excited to minister on the Campus at the U of M this year!
nstromwall@cominneapolis.org
kstromwall@cominneapolis.org
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