Meet our campus staff – Miles Seppelt

 

Family:  “Married up” in a huge way in 2007 to Ann; our “child” is a cat named Tiger.

 

Education:  B.A. in Business / Economics / Political Science from the University of Minnesota, Morris;  M.S. in Economic Development from St. Cloud State University.  Thought about getting my PhD, but decided I had other things I needed to do…

 

Ministry Experience:

• Became a Christian at age 26 while attending UMM – my friends must have invited me to InterVarsity a hundred times before I finally went!
• 11 years campus ministry experience
• Volunteer staff with IVCF at SCSU from 1999 to 2003
• Volunteer with D2C at SCSU from 2005 to 2008 – sort of a “hired gun”
• 11 mission trips
• Extensive experiance with leadership training & development, missions, discipleship, Bible Study, etc.
  

  My Princess, my wife Ann

If you would have come to me before I became a Christian and share all the ways that God was going to use me,  I would have said “you’re nuts!”  Now I’m at a point where I don’t want to do anything else except serve Him!

 

Occupations:

• Economic Development Director, City of Hutchinson (until I complete the transition to full-time campus staff!)
• Staff, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship on the campuses of SCSU / SJU / CSB
• Adjunct Professor, Community Development Department, SCSU (but not this year – budget cuts!)

 

Earlier Life:

• Former Tank Commander
• 20-year veteran of US Army / Minnesota National Guard
• 1 deployment overseas, chasing extremist types in Bosnia

Regarding my military experiance I tell people, “It was a good experiance, but not a fun experiance; I’m glad I did it, but I never want to do it again.”  It’s hard to explain.

 

Strange but True:

• My Dad and I once spent 3 weeks touring Alaska, during which we camped out north of the Artic Circle, just so we could say we did it.
• A high school friend and I wanted to check out the sport of mountain climbing, so a few years back we flew to Colorado one weekend and climbed Mt. Elbert – the highest peak in the Rocky Mountain chain at 14,430 feet.  Made it to the summit on the first attempt.  Got altitude sickness, but not too bad.
• Back in 2001 I bought a van, threw a bed in the back, and just took off to see America.  I spent the whole summer living out of my van and I saw EVERYTHING!!  (Highly recommended!)

 

My Many Interests:

• Archery
• Astronomy
• Board games (war games, actually)
• Mountain climbing
• Reading: science fiction, history, biographies, classical litrature, Shakespeare
• Music: Audio Adrenalin, Tobymac, DC Talk, Third Day, 80’s music, some classical, alternative
• Performing arts
• Sports
• Travel
• Home repair / improvements