{"id":54187,"date":"2017-10-26T16:10:40","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T16:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/?p=54187"},"modified":"2023-07-10T14:22:18","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T14:22:18","slug":"introducing-kristina-fruge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/2017\/10\/26\/introducing-kristina-fruge\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Kristina Fruge"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kristina Frug\u00e9<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kristina Frug\u00e9 has worked in community and congregational contexts for over 20 years. She spent 12 years as a ministry leader in St. Louis Park, MN working as a CYF Ministry Director and Faith Community Partnership Organizer. For the past 6 years, she has worked with learning communities of local congregations as the Program Manager of the Riverside Innovation Hub at Augsburg University. She also\u00a0 supports other ministry related initiatives at Augsburg in her other role as Managing Director of the Christensen Center for Vocation. She has served as a trainer with Church Innovations supporting the missional imagination of congregations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In all of these roles Kristina is a relationship-centered leader, utilizing skills of theological imagination, congregational and community facilitation, creative problem solving, and deep listening for the collective wisdom present in community. She has her MA from Luther Seminary in Congregational Mission and Leadership and graduated from Concordia College, Moorhead with a double major in Religion and Social Work. Her early introduction to ministry goes all the way back to being a high school confirmation guide at her home church in East Bethel, MN and four memorable summers working at Wapogasset Lutheran Bible Camp!<\/span><\/p>\n

She believes deeply in the transformative power of the Holy Spirit that thrives when we invest in meaningful, mutual relationships. She is certain God gets really excited when these relationships get organized as a community with a shared-heart for the mutual flourishing of the neighborhood because when this happens, anything is possible.\u00a0 Her oldest of three kids, coined her vocational calling when he was a 5-year old telling her, \u201cMom, you work for love.\u201d This orientation has continued to shape all she commits her time, energy and imagination to.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Working for love continues to be central in Kristina\u2019s other vocational callings with her family, friends and neighbors. She and her husband Nick have three kids, ages 16, 12, and 8 and a crazy but cuddly Vizsla named Smidge, who they love to go on adventures with – big and small, indoors and out, local and far away (when they can!) They treasure their many relationships in their Longfellow community of South Minneapolis where they have lived for over 20 years.\u00a0 They make a good effort to spend time with friends and neighbors walking, eating good food, playing and experiencing the connection they share to their place.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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