A Busy and Fruitful Semester

Ministry Highlights
• We began a Sunday night worship service called Evensong Worship. Over 90 different people have attended in the last seven weeks.
• Our Monday night welcome outreach to international students, Let’s Talk International, had it’s largest ever attendance (thirty-three) several weeks ago. That means we’re reaching more international students!
• Our shift to two weekly large group meetings (Wednesday Night Together and Thursday Night Together) is paying off. More students are participating; more new students are coming; and all students say they really like the change and having an option about which night is best for them.
• Rebecca Lehmer and Brad Dewing will be leading a team of over 30 to the Gulf Coast for a Spring Break Missions Trip. The team will be serving in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. Please pray for their safety and for Jesus to be glorified through their service in His name.
• Brad Dewing will be starting a Bible study in the AGR Fraternity House after Spring Break. We’ve had students from two fraternities and two sororities involved with CSF this semester. Pray that God will help us reach the students living in the Greek houses and Bailey Hall on the St. Paul Campus.
• Four CSF students are preparing for three weeks of Mission Work in Romania in the summer of 2006 with FCGI (For God’s Children International). All of them have gone on previous trips to Romania, so they are seasoned workers.
• CSF Alumni are headed to the mission field. This month Mike Lundell is beginning his full-time mission work in Romania; Mike and Jana Huffman are beginning their adventure of service in Morocco working with the U.S. Peace Corps.

An Open Door to Advance the Gospel?
I recently learned that the Lutheran Campus Ministry Building (located on the St. Paul Campus just a block north of the CSF Center) will be going up for sale very soon. This is an incredible building with an incredible location. I sincerely hope that a Christian ministry (perhaps even CSF?) will be able to purchase the property because it would be a wonderful tool for Christian ministry. We’re praying and waiting on God to provide and show us what to do on this, not wanting it to distract us from the important work we’re already doing. We are also trying to spread the word to everyone else we know doing Christian ministry on our campus. Please join us in prayer about this, asking God to provide this building as tool for some Christian ministry on our campus!

Yours in the Cause of Christ,
Dave Burkum



Mary Ann Barnett at the CSF Center with a group of international children who are her piano students. This is a great bridge to their parents who are all International Students.