User:Jsniessen

The official and not all that exciting John Niessen user page.

Originally from rural Mountain Lake township, Minnesota, I currently live and work in the Twin Cities. My formal education was obtained at Mountain Lake, Minnesota Public Schools, Bethel University (Minnesota) in Arden Hills, Bethel College (Kansas) in North Newton, and the University of Minnesota (St. Paul campus). I must add that the real learning began later.

I have lived in the following U.S. states: Minnesota, Kansas, South Dakota, and Iowa.

I have had the privilege of visiting (or in several cases, at least stepping on the ground at a major airport in) the following countries: Canada, Great Britain, Austria, Germany (West and East), Denmark, South Korea, Russian Federation, France, Turkey, and Greece. I would still like to visit Texas, Australia, Italy, and Israel.

I have a variety of eclectic interests, including choral music, Christian theology, Anabaptist & U.S. history, politics, media bias, muscle cars, 4-wheelers & snowmobiles, Israel, baseball, basketball, ethics, and genealogy. (So yes, I may have a case of undiagnosed ADD.)

I am married and the father of 3 children.

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Here are a few good links I refer to from time to time: And one I am currently going through:
 * A primer for newcomers
 * The five pillars of Wikipedia
 * How to edit a page
 * Help pages
 * Tutorial
 * How to write a great article
 * Maintaining Neutral POV
 * Administrator intervention against vandalism
 * Reliable Sources
 * Problematic Sources
 * Manual of Style
 * WikiProject Cities/US Guideline

Contributions
This is a list of articles I have created or contributed significantly to:
 * Alfalfa County, Oklahoma
 * Amorita, Oklahoma
 * Byron, Oklahoma
 * Burlington, Oklahoma
 * Cherokee, Oklahoma
 * Corn, Oklahoma
 * Delft, Minnesota
 * Driftwood, Oklahoma
 * Elmendorf Christian Community
 * Goltry, Oklahoma
 * Helena, Oklahoma
 * Lambert, Oklahoma
 * Land Run of 1893
 * Mountain Lake, Minnesota
 * Mountain Lake Township, Cottonwood County, Minnesota
 * Nescatunga, Oklahoma
 * Washita County, Oklahoma
 * Waynoka, Oklahoma


 * Gary Chapman (musician)‎
 * R. Orin Cornett
 * Chris Dowling (director)
 * Gilbert Esau
 * Danny Thompson (baseball)
 * Herbert Titus
 * Vaughan Foods beheading incident


 * Church of God in Christ, Mennonite
 * Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches (EMB)
 * Kleine Gemeinde
 * Lancaster Mennonite Conference
 * Mennonite


 * Eastern Mennonite University
 * Grace University
 * Northwestern College (Iowa)
 * Oklahoma Wesleyan University