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 are expecting a little girl (Maddux) in early November.
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 a year-and-a-half. They currently work on the U of MN campus. Eric, a graduate of the U and native of Racine, WI, has been on staff for three years now. Holly, a graduate of Western Carolina University and a native of Gainesville, GA, has been on staff for three and a half years. 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. They both want to see students graduate with an understanding of the greatness of God most magnificently displayed in the message of the Cross. This is central to all of life and all of ministry.
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. She joined the Campus Outreach staff team in March 2007. She works on the U of M campus and also serves as the Assistant to the COM Director.
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 are expecting a baby girl this fall.
mreagan@cominneapolis.org
lreagan@cominneapolis.org

Jared and Amy were greatly impacted through discipleship as college students. Amy is from Nebraska and graduated from the University of Nebraska and Jared is from Iowa and graduated from the University of Northern Iowa. They were on staff in collegiate ministry with the Navigators from 2003-2008 and are excited to begin advancing the Gospel among college students with Campus Outreach in the fall of 2008. Jared and Amy have one child, Josiah.
jwass@cominneapolis.org
awass@cominneapolis.org