By Tracy Berg

I’ve been giving tours of the campus at George Fox University since my freshman year, and I’ve talked about our study abroad programs so many times that I can practically tell you about our May Serve program in my sleep. My junior year I got a little more excited to talk about traveling abroad through Fox because I was signed up for the Israel/Turkey/Greece Juniors Abroad trip in June. And then, this past Tuesday, the tour I had been waiting for arrived. I was able to tell the group of prospective students and their parents that I had just returned from a study abroad trip, and that all the preparation and planning and waiting had been more than worth it.
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The whole team with the gift that the center made us. It is a picture of the Word Made Flesh symbol with ‘WMF Romania’ underneath it. (Haley: back row, third from right.)

By Haley Bellows

After being diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma at the beginning of April, I was told that I would no longer be able to join my team of nine other students and two leaders on the June Serve trip to Romania and Moldova. After six weeks of very hard treatments of chemotherapy and radiation, God performed a miracle that I still have yet to fully grasp. Most of the cancer had disappeared, leaving me in remission. Even after the doctors cleared me to go I had much fear about my weakened immune system, but I could not be more thankful that I got this experience.
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By Lauran Woodruff

Pictured above: Lauran (left) and Anne Holiday explore Bayeux

Sometimes in life you undergo experiences that seem so unreal, or surreal, or just too good to be true, that you’re not entirely sure they happened. I’ve heard them called out-of-body experiences, or a “dream within a dream.” For me, they often feel like another life entirely, so distinctly separate from my day to day life, still real, but maybe the memories of someone else’s life.
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By Sarah Cadd (’12)

Wow, what an adventure my time at George Fox University has been, and little did I know that it would not end after graduation. I was selected along with 14 other students and two alumni leaders as part of a May Serve team that would spend three weeks in Swaziland, Africa.
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Junior Bailey Dekker blogs about her adventures studying abroad

As a double major in Spanish and Communications with a minor in International Studies, a part-time worker and an active member in numerous activities around campus, I usually have my hands full and my weekly planner booked. However, I was blessed with the opportunity to spend this semester in the Pura Vida of Costa Rica.
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George Fox students are are given many opportunities to study and serve abroad, so it only makes sense to have a contest that celebrates the people they meet and places they visit. Over 300 submissions were received for the 2012 International Photo Contest, which were then pared down to 30 student and 15 employee entries. Winning submissions from both students and employees were announced in several categories: culture, landscape, people and best of show. Scroll down to see some spectacular photos.

Student Submissions

Best of Show: Anticipation – Shekinah F. Davis

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