Howdy!

My name is Daniel Pugh, and I'm the new face at Lutheran Campus Ministry. I'm a recent graduate of ASU, where I spent my days between the Theatre department and various philosophy and religion classes. In my 3 years at ASU, I was Managing Director for the Prism Theatre (a student-run theatre on campus), and I appeared on the Main stage as Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet in the Spring of '05. Concurrently, I've been working for the past three years as a Youth Director at Desert Cross Lutheran, here in Tempe. Before that I guess I was in high school where I met the love of my life, Ashley. We've been married for a whole month by the time this newsletter gets out, and we couldn't be happier! Ashley was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, where we met in high school, and I hale from Houston, Texas, where I lived until I was 10 (ask me about my southern accent).

I am very excited to work in this area of ministry because college was such an important soul-searching time in my life. I look forward to getting others moving on their adult life’s journey. By way of doing that, I have a few plans toward making LCM a great place for people to find what they need and where they are needed. Along with weekly Sunday and Wednesday programs, we will be starting a class I call The Simpsons and the 10 Commandments on Tuesday Nights @ 10:00 pm. Also, I want to produce a dinner theatre next spring as a fundraiser- and there will be more on that later.

Thank you so much for this opportunity to be welcomed into your faith community, Ashley and I are thrilled to be done with college but not out of its community. Please keep us in your prayers as the school year approaches, as Ashley will be starting Graduate studies at ASU and I will attempt to convince a new generation of college students that I'm still cool.

God's love,
Dan Pugh

If you want to say hey- feel free to drop me a line at LcmDAN@aol.com.