Spring LSM Tri-Ota Retreat Wrap Up

By:  Anthony Christoffels, and Ashley Kristjanson

May 2, 2005 --

On Friday April 1 Pastor Darin and two students from the University Lutheran Center, Anthony Christoffels and Ashley Kristjanson went to Outlaw Ranch in Custer, South Dakota for the Lutheran Student Movement (LSM) Tri-Ota Regional Retreat.  We took a fifteen passenger van and teamed up with nine people from MSUM’s Lutheran Campus Ministry including their pastor.

We started the retreat on Saturday morning with a plenary session.  We discussed the different roles of the board and what they have done these past few months and their plans for the future.  There were also state meetings in which we discussed how to get connected with other campus ministries across the state.  We also talked about ways to connect with Christian organizations on our own campuses.

While on the retreat we did a service project for Outlaw Ranch in which we picked up the branches that were cut down to help with their drought.

One way we raised money for LSM was to have an auction.  The auction consisted of bidding on the board members.  The campus that won the board member gets to make them do whatever they want at the fall retreat.  NDSU won Allison Stoltz from MSUM, the secretary of the Tri-Ota region.  From this auction we raised $928.

For our entertainment of the weekend, we had a Lutheran version of Saturday Night Live.  One thing we did was a three-headed bible story in which three contestants told a bible story using only one word per person.  We also had a dinner party where the host invited three people.  Each contestant portrayed a person from the bible and the host had to guess who each contestant was.

We are extremely ecstatic for the Fall LSM Retreat which will be held near Alexandria, Minnesota November 4-6.