JEN Jen Oakes Position: Women's Ministry and Discipleship Birthday: September, 2 Reason You Like Being On Staff At CSF I love being around students in their college years because most of them will formulate their faith, career and lifestyle during these years, and I like having the opportunity to question, doubt, and wrestle alongside people as they decide what path they will take. That, and Brian keeps a stash of free candy in his office. Favorite Books/Authors Les Miserables, Victor Hugo; The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd; A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens; To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee; Bird by Bird, Anne Lamont; I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou; short stories and poetry by Dorthy Parker. Favorite Movies Amelie, When Harry Met Sally, Reality Bites, American Beauty, anything by Wes Anderson, Zoolander, The Color Purple, Fight Club, Memento. Favorite Music Coldplay, Radiohead, Patty Griffin, Magnet, T.D. Oakes, Over the Rhine, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Aqualung, Damien Rice, Death Cab, Postal Service, Kanye West, Jeff Buckley, Toad the Wet Sprocket, U2. Favorite Biblical Character/Book Lately Old Testament: Elijah/Exodus or Daniel; New Testament: The woman with the issue of blood/John. Random Fact (something true) I want to be a professional writer when I grow up, and so my husband built me a (the greatest) clubhouse (in the world) in our backyard for me to write in .