To those thinking about joining the Concordia clan of St. Paul, make sure you enjoy everything the cities have to offer!
Here’s a little video edit of “Exploring the Cities” in 11 min!
- Here’s to you, Concordia!
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By El Clinto on Tue, Mar 31st 09 at 05:08PM | Permalink | Comments (2)
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Hey heartsupport community, I’m so stoked to tell you about this email we received from Barrett, a student at Concordia University in St. Paul, Minnesota. He writes:
“My friend, Emmanuel, is finishing up his senior art project. I did not know until yesterday what the theme of his project was. One of his pieces includes the creation of forty hearts (forty for the number of trial in the bible) in a postsecret type fashion. Each heart will be unique from the other 39. This led me to ask what he was going to do with the hearts when he was done. He was thinking about selling them and donating the money to a charity. I told him about the heartsupport community. He seemed intrigued and was willing to raise money for the community.”
Emmanuel sent over some images of the project and the exhibit is amazing to say the least. He is currently working on posting the hearts up for individual sale to raise funds for heartsupport!
We’re all pretty stoked and blown away to say the least and we’ll be posting a link to the [he]art sale as soon as they’re ready. Below are some images from the exhibit.
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bryony wrote on March 31st 09 at 07:35PM
AWESOME!
Ryan Coenen wrote on April 1st 09 at 08:41PM
My name is Ryan Coenen and I attend Concordia University of St. Paul with Manny and he’s an incredible guy! The exhibit was very intriguing and inspiring to say the least.
This is a great organization along with XXXchurch. I was glad to hear that Barrett & Manny were doing something great to help others. It is my hope to be working with XXXchurch this summer!
Thanks for posting!!
Well, we’re on the home stretch of the Fall 2008 semester. Actually, I believe there’s only four weeks left! It’s crazy how fast it’s gone, but I’ve been plenty busy. Track and Field is fully underway and we have our first meet in just a few weeks at MSU-Mankato. I’ve also been busy with classes, working for the Theater & Video Production staffs here on campus, and even occasionally writing for The Sword this semester. Even though it’s been a good semester, I’m anxiously awaiting WINTER BREAK!
The Concordia University intramural football season is now complete. On Sunday October 19th, four teams competed in the playoff finals to determine the overall champion. My team, the undefeated “Trackstars,” were going against the increasingly dominant “Why So Serious?” team. The game was rough and featured several heated arguments, but in the end only one team could be crowned the 2008 CU Intramural Football champs. The score remained tight until the final five minutes of play, when my team pulled ahead to take the title. The winning team consists of myself (captain Andy Wyss), fellow senior Tre Sayles, juniors Adam LeMay and Brian Kohlman, sophomores Kevin Koglin, Britt Bickert, and Andy Chaussee, DCE Intern (and my wife) Jayme Wyss, and alumni Joseph “Slim” Amundson. It was really great getting to play with all those guys. I love them all and wish the best of luck to everyone as the CU student body continues a successful intramural year.
The 2008 Concordia University homecoming is just around the bend….this weekend, in fact. It seems like it’s going to be a busy weekend for everybody on campus. On Thursday, the theater students are hosting their annual “Shakespeare Under The Stars” reading. I’ve never gone to it in the past, but I might consider it this year, mostly because I designed the poster for it, and has peaked my interest. Then there’s a volleyball game on Friday, followed by a Saturday full of events. A special chapel, noon football game, alumni art exhibit, street fair/carnival, and another volleyball game to cap off the weekend. So, it should be a lot of fun! I am ending up having to work at most of the games, so I probably won’t get to enjoy all the festivities, but hopefully the rest of you do!
If you are overwhelmed by the hubbub of school already, I suggest you find out what’s most important… It can easily be stressful and overwhelming with all that needs to be done for classes/graduation - but if I have learned ONE THING over the last 5 years at Concordia, I have learned it is most important to ENJOY LIFE before homework. It sounds incredibly irresponsible, but in order for me to function with a clear mind, I NEED to get off-campus and explore. I need to have that free time with friends or by myself.
It seems all I’ve been doing lately is riding my bicycle instead of doing homework! - Tim can fend for that one!!! … but I have realized that it is most important that your life is in order before you can begin to focus on the little tasks of life such as ho
mework. So don’t get too stressed out - things will fall in place if your priorities are in line.
ENJOY IT!!!
Philippians 3:13-14
Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
Well, I’m glad to be back….
The CU campus has never looked better in my opinion, and I have never been more excited for a school year than this year! The grounds look great, the grass is a vibrant green, lots of new faces, high hopes for academics, athletics, and extra-curriculars, and a great year in sight. I had a rather busy summer, getting married and all… (more…)
Contemplating my options once again, I was lost in the confusion of “WHAT DO I REALLY WANT TO DO THE REST OF MY LIFE?” - Well, this summer I came up with the grand idea to switch over to Special Education! That gave me some peace to know I have a secure plan and feel comfortable with my career choice.
This summer was THE BEST SUMMER OF MY LIFE as I went to India for my brother’s wedding, hung out with old friends/made some new ones, relaxed up north and got some down time with God. Yet for some reason I was not quite ready to go back to school after having such an amazing time. I was a little nervous! It is now my 5th(?) year at Concordia and I AM STILL NERVOUS???? Usually I was more than ecstatic to be back on campus, but this time I’ve been finally enjoying what life has to offer so I wasn’t so sure I was ready to leave that! It’s also been hard because my grandma’s boyfriend, YES - “BOYFRIEND” has been in and out of the hospital like crazy this year and not doing well. I did yard work for him on the side this summer once again and to leave him was incredibly difficult.
BUT, once I got back on campus I realized I have a ton of awesome friends here and it’s EXCITING to live in the cities!!! Plus it was also nice to be back on campus quite some time before classes and the stress began!
SO starting off the year right, a bunch of us guys went to Taylors Falls, MN! 
I realize that life can be so much more exciting if you just get out there, explore, and HAVE FUN!!! Good luck to all in the new school year, and remember to take some time to enjoy life!
This is a new segment entitled “Wyss’ Pieces” featured on my campus television show “Concordia Spotlight.” In this episode, I wanted to test the geography knowledge of the students here at Concordia. The results were stunning to say the least!
