Who would have thought that a city once completely destroyed by an Allied bombing run during World War II would be host to a school for the radically mission-minded?! In this newsletter, we will be looking at some Salvage Yard people who are either going as students or going to help out at the school. For more information on the school, visit Steiger's web site.

Joe Riley, his bass, and his mustache are all off to Dresden. Joe was approached by the Pierces to play bass for No Longer Music. With joining NLM, they asked him to come to the school to be fully trained and prepared for the work the evan-gelistic band does. Joe also sees this as his long awaited chance to leave the country and live in a different one. At the school, he hopes to learn more about missions and to “hone in on his strengths,” and overcome his weaknesses. Joe is also the bassist for the band Cosmonaught, Steiger’s first evangelistic band in the Minneapolis area. Joe asks that people pray for him since this is the first time he’ll be gone for so long and so far away.

Immediately after she graduates from the Minnesota School of Business, Leah Preble will be enrolling at a new, and much different, school. Inspired by David Pierce’s message at the Salvage Yard, she decided that she was going to be serious about finding and following God’s purpose for her life. Since then, it simply has seemed obvious that she should go. She believes God will move and change her. “I think the Lord is also going to shake my foundations and I really want this to happen…I very much want to change and grow.” With an A.A. degree in Music Business and Audio Production, Leah would appreciate prayers that God will open opportunities for her to use her newly learned skills “in a way that helps Christian bands that are seek-ing to witness to subcultures and young people.”

Phil and Sari Shorey are also newlyweds, but each will have a different role to play at the Dresden School. Phil “will be helping lead the Evangelism with the school, as well as other small group things,” while Sari will be a student. The two felt they need to reestablish their “calling as a couple;” and now seemed like the perfect time to go to Dresden, especially with a Suitcase Sideshow tour in the near future.
As a couple, Phil thinks the two of them will “be challenged to trust each other more, and to learn how to support each other in our different roles.” Despite their different roles, they expect that they will grow as a couple, discover each other in new ways, become better leaders, pre-pare spiritually for the tour, and to have more time to spend with Jesus.

Newlyweds Brian and Amanda Hoscheit are going to the Dresden school, both as students. After their honeymoon, they returned to the Sal-vage Yard and heard David Pierce speak. He had information about the school and shortly after-wards they began to discuss it. Brian and Amanda had been to discipleship schools separately before they met, and now they will be going to a missions school as a married couple. “I felt that with mar-riage can come with a sense of complacency with focusing on the relationship mostly and reaching out to others less, and with that more worldli-ness,” says Brian. Amanda agrees, feeling a strong sense that they should go to the school. Each will still have different views and styles in how they relate to God. Brian says that “going to the school as a couple will keep us grounded and we know we must trust God to be able to accept what God is teaching us individually as well as collec-tively.” Please pray for their “hearts to be open to anything God wants to show” them, for them have peace about being away from home, family and friends, and their kitten Aloysius.

“Some say love, it is a river, that drowns the Kristin Reed.” Not literally, of course! A Steiger Discipleship school alum, she is going to the Radical Missions school as a helper. She will be leading morning prayers, a Wednesday women’s group, and connecting with the stu-dents. What brought Kristin to this point? “In New Zealand, I con-nected with the Germans and to Germany, but also to the idea behind what they are doing at the school there.” Kristin is excited to be in-volved in the ministry of sending people out and preparing them to be missionaries. “It really focuses on the core of how your life needs to be centered on Christ, and then out of that comes ministry and mis-sions…out of that comes my mentorship to women.” Kristin asks for prayer that God will “stretch” her, and for the people who are coming to the school, especially those with obstacles in the way.