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Conversations with god instrumental1/2/2024 ![]() ![]() Skoog realized that for all the learning he’d done in the classroom at Bethel, he’d also learned a lot navigating campus offices and budgets to bring ideas to life for students. I thought, ‘maybe I want to do youth work.’ To give back to my community-the folks who helped raise me-that was really important.” It was this mix of church kids and not,” Skoog recalls. There were leaders holding 3-year-olds, and 18-year-olds taking smoke breaks. And if he saw an opportunity to bring talent together to improve an event, policy, or student experience-he would grab it.ĭuring senior year, in search of an internship, Skoog got reconnected to Hope and ended up in contact with Cesar Castillejos S'10, who had launched a partnership with Young Life. If there was something going on, he wanted to be a part of it. For Skoog, it wasn’t so much about building a resume but making the most of the experiences available to him. ![]() He also studied abroad on the “Band of Brothers” trip with Football Coach Steve Johnson, played and refereed sports, became a teaching assistant, rapped with the band The Sota Boys, and excelled in his organizational communication major. ![]() He planned events and concerts for Student Activities through Bethel Student Government. He was part of the team behind “The Show” for incoming first-year students during Welcome Week three years running. Once on campus in the fall of 2008, he realized he had a knack for making connections and creating meaningful experiences. I wanted a faith community, and that’s truly what drew me in.” Bethel’s made up of a lot of people who know how to have fun, but there’s also a depth there. “That experience convinced me that it was a really cool, tight-knit community. “I got to know his roommates,” he says simply. It wasn’t an official campus visit or Bethel’s list of majors or even the campus that did it for him, but a visit to a friend. He has many alumni in his family, and there are countless connections between his home congregation-Hope Presbyterian Church in Richfield, Minnesota-and the Christian university just up 35-W. At first, BJ Skoog ’12 was reluctant to consider Bethel. ![]()
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