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Are you interested in leading a serve trip over spring break? We are looking for both student and faculty leaders. Here are the trip descriptions:

Haiti
In partnership with the French department, a team of students will be immersed in the Haitian culture as well as serve alongside local ministries and health care organizations. The trip will be led by Isabelle Corneaux and Jaques St. Gelus. Separate applications are required.

Camp Attitude
Students will partner and serve with Camp Attitude, a not-for-profit Christian organization dedicated to providing a unique faith-based camping experience for families in the disability community. Students will help complete projects for the camp and maintain facilities for the special needs community

Flying H Ranch, Yakima, Wash.
This trip is located at the Flying H Ranch, located 30 miles west of Yakima, Wash. The ranch ministers to at-risk youth. On this trip, students will do physical labor as well as spend some time with the boys in worship, devotions, meals, games and conversation.

Urban Impact, Seattle
A team of students will serve with Urban Impact in Seattle, focusing on building relationships and serving in the community through the local church. The team will do a variety of work projects, which may include tutoring, service projects, administrative work and cleaning.

Mending Wings, Washington
We will partner with Mending Wings, a nonprofit Native American youth organization located on the Yakama Reservation in Washington state. Students will come alongside the reservation community to build trust and friendship while serving alongside them painting homes, cleaning yards of garbage and debris, chopping wood for elders, mowing, weeding gardens, working at a homeless shelter, doing light construction projects, and perhaps working at one of their local powwows.

San Francisco
This trip will go to San Francisco to work with ReImagine, a center for integrating Christian practice. The week will consist of guided prayer tours, trash pick-up, serving meals to people living on the streets, learning about local issues such as human trafficking and poverty, as well as spending time in group and individual spiritual reflection.

If you are interested in participating, applications are due no later than Friday, Feb. 12. If you would like to serve as a student leader, applications are due Saturday, Jan. 30.

Applications can be found at the SpIL website under “Get Involved” and “Service + Ministry,” or follow this link.

Contact Mikayla Greenwell (mgreenwell12@georgefox.edu) with any questions.

Foster Parents Night Out is here! This will be a monthly event (the second Saturday of the month from 4 to 8 p.m.) when students will get to interact, mentor and spend time with children in the foster care system while foster parents get a few hours off.

There will be games, food, crafts and much more. It will be held at McMinnville’s Church on the Hill (home of an awesome indoor playground called Scotty’s playhouse). We need your help! Whether you want to facilitate games, rock climbing, crafts, help with security, or help in the nursery, all skill sets are welcome and needed.

There are only 25 spots available, and you do need to be 18 years or older. Background checks will be required.

Important: Please fill out this short form to reserve your spot and let us know where you would most like to participate and to put on your calendars the mandatory DHS training on Sunday, Jan. 17, from 2 to 5 p.m. in the Cap and Gown Room. If you cannot make this training, there is one the next Sunday in Portland that can be arranged.

University employees are welcome to participate!

Contact Mikayla Greenwell (mgreenwell12@georgefox.edu) with questions.

Tuition remission applications for 2016-17 are being accepted through Jan. 5, 2016.

In order to better coordinate financial aid communications with tuition remission benefits, the due date for the 2016-17 tuition remission applications will be Tuesday, Jan. 5. See the tuition remission section (top of the page) of the Benefits, Forms & Resources page for instructions and applications.

Questions? Contact Darby Thiessen at dthiessen@georgefox.edu or ext. 2188.

Is there someone you can think of whose contributions in our community stand out as deserving Employee of the Month recognition? If so, please send an email to Lisa Burton (lburton@georgefox.edu) by Thursday, Jan. 14, with a summary of this colleague’s recent contributions.

The President’s Executive Leadership Team will select the recipient from the nominations submitted, and the winner will be honored with a citation and a $100 Visa gift card at our first community meeting later this month.

Congratulations again to Joel Kelley, who was our December Employee of the month!

George Fox University has established a US Bank Visa “One Card” program to provide for the rapid acquisition of many of our low-dollar items (<=$1,000.01). It is designed to facilitate and simplify the process of purchasing goods, improve administrative efficiencies, and provide more consistent procedures.

The US Bank Visa One Card can also be used for university travel/entertainment and associated travel transactions. Please continue to use purchase orders and check requests where/when appropriate.

If you are a current cardholder or would like to become a cardholder, please make sure you read the GFU Visa Policy. Information on purchase orders and check requests is available on this page.

Please contact Matt Hammar, director of purchasing, at mhammar@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2162 if you have any questions.

The Office of Spiritual & Intercultural Life is looking for post-college leaders for our six-week spring Life Groups (the weeks of Feb. 14 to March 27).

Life Groups are small groups of undergraduate students who meet together for prayer, Bible study and fellowship. Groups meet weekly for 60 to 90 minutes at the time and location of your choosing. Participants will select the group they wish to participate in based on the details that leaders provide.

Groups are encouraged to use one of the curriculum options recommended by the Office of Spiritual & Intercultural Life that parallel other themes that are being explored in chapel. We welcome our alumni, family members of George Fox employees and students, and members of our wonderful local churches to consider leading a group.

Our spring leader meeting will take place on Thursday, Feb. 4, from noon to 1:30 p.m. (location TBA), and lunch will be provided. For more information and to sign up, visit this webpage.

If you have any further questions, contact Jamie Noling-Auth at jnolingauth@georgefox.edu.

Saturday, Jan. 9, 4 p.m. – Women’s basketball vs. Pacific Lutheran, Wheeler Sports Center
Saturday, Jan. 9, 6 p.m. – Men’s basketball vs. Pacific Lutheran, Wheeler Sports Center

For more information, contact the sports information office at ext. 2926 or visit the George Fox sports website at gfubruins.com.

Don’t have tickets yet for the Saturday, Jan. 9, Oregon Symphony performance in Bauman Auditorium? You’re in luck, because a limited number of tickets are still available for George Fox employees (halftime and above).

If interested, swing by the advancement office at 215 N. Meridian St., to pick up your tickets. There is a limit of two per employee. Phone reservations (503-554-2134) will not be taken except for employees at the Portland Center.

Beginning today (Monday) at 9 a.m., any remaining tickets (again, a limit of two per person) will be available – on a first-come, first-served basis – to those who signed up on a waiting list. If you find you will not be able to attend the concert, please return your tickets for another employee to use.

The 29th annual concert will begin at 8 p.m. The performance is free to George Fox employees – a gift from George Fox honorary board member Ken Austin, who cofounded A-dec with his late wife Joan. The employee tickets are separate from those to be issued by the Newberg Area Chamber of Commerce to the general public.

Questions? Contact Mary Monahan at mmonahan@georgefox.edu.

Seven staff and administrator positions are currently open. Listed in order of recency they are:

• Administrative Assistant, College of Arts and Sciences
• Carpenter
• Associate Vice President of Human Resources
• Head Women’s Volleyball Coach
• Director of Financial Aid
• Associate Registrar
• Accounting Specialist II – General Ledger

The link to each of these position announcements can be found at jobs.georgefox.edu. If you know of someone you believe might provide a good fit for any of these jobs, please refer the person to the website for information about the job and instructions about applying.

Don’t have tickets yet for the Saturday, Jan. 9, Oregon Symphony performance in Bauman Auditorium? You’re in luck, because a limited number of tickets are still available for George Fox employees (halftime and above).

If interested, swing by the advancement office at 215 N. Meridian St., to pick up your tickets today (Tuesday) or tomorrow. There is a limit of two per employee. Phone reservations (503-554-2134) will not be taken except for employees at the Portland Center.

On Monday, Jan. 4, beginning at 9 a.m., any remaining tickets (again, a limit of two per person) will be available – on a first-come, first-served basis – to those who sign up on a waiting list. If you find you will not be able to attend the concert, please return your tickets for another employee to use.

The 29th annual concert will begin at 8 p.m. The performance is free to George Fox employees – a gift from George Fox honorary board member Ken Austin, who cofounded A-dec with his late wife Joan. The employee tickets are separate from those to be issued by the Newberg Area Chamber of Commerce to the general public.

Questions? Contact Mary Monahan at mmonahan@georgefox.edu.

The Office of Spiritual & Intercultural Life is looking for post-college leaders for our six-week spring Life Groups (the weeks of Feb. 14 to March 27).

Life Groups are small groups of undergraduate students who meet together for prayer, Bible study and fellowship. Groups meet weekly for 60 to 90 minutes at the time and location of your choosing. Participants will select the group they wish to participate in based on the details that leaders provide.

Groups are encouraged to use one of the curriculum options recommended by the Office of Spiritual & Intercultural Life that parallel other themes that are being explored in chapel. We welcome our alumni, family members of George Fox employees and students, and members of our wonderful local churches to consider leading a group.

Our spring leader meeting will take place on Thursday, Feb. 4, from noon to 1:30 p.m. (location TBA), and lunch will be provided. For more information and to sign up, visit this webpage.

If you have any further questions, contact Jamie Noling-Auth at jnolingauth@georgefox.edu.

This annual show will be held Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 8-10, at the Oregon Convention Center. It features hundreds of exhibits about – you guessed it – building, remodeling and landscaping. If you would like to attend, you can pick up two tickets (worth $6 each) from the HR department on Dec. 29 and 30, then from Barbi Doran at the Information Services window in the Stevens Center between Jan. 4 and 8.

Portland and Salem employees, you can reserve yours by emailing Barbi at bdoran@georgefox.edu. She will send them to you through campus mail early in January. We have a limited supply, so please request/pick them up only if you are reasonably certain you will attend this event.

Plant services personnel need to have all cars removed from the Wood-Mar and Roberts Center lots this morning (Wednesday) for maintenance.

The lots will be reopened after noon, but please leave them vacant this morning. Thank you for your cooperation!

Questions? Contact Nadine Kincaid at nkincaid@georgefox.edu.

IT will be staffed and available over the Christmas break. On Tuesday and Wednesday, Dec. 29 and 30, computer hardware repair services will be limited so our staff can enjoy the holidays with their families and be ready to serve you in the new year.

Newberg hours will be 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the days the university is open for business during the break. We will close for lunch from noon to 1 p.m. until Monday, Jan. 4.

Questions? Contact Josh Nauman at jnauman@georgefox.edu.

With the return of his daughter from a study abroad trip to Lithuania, President Robin Baker took time to reflect on the deep desire all parents have for the safety of their children.

You can read his reflections on his blog post here.

Tuesday, Dec. 22, 7 p.m. – Men’s basketball vs. Augustana (Ill.), Wheeler Sports Center

For more information, contact the sports information office at ext. 2926 or visit the George Fox sports website at gfubruins.com.

With the holidays quickly approaching, the finance department would like to bring to your attention the schedule for processing check requests and expense reimbursements to accommodate the short holiday weeks.

Please click this link to view the holiday check run schedule posted on the “Forms” page of the finance department’s website. Please check this webpage periodically for any changes to the current schedule. If you have questions, contact Jen Klapp at jklapp@georgefox.edu.

Please note that the finance department will be closed from Thursday, Dec. 24, through Friday, Jan. 1, so no checks will be available from accounts payable during this time.

Thank you and Happy Holidays!

– The Finance Department

IT will be staffed and available over the Christmas break. On Tuesday and Wednesday, Dec. 29 and 30, computer hardware repair services will be limited so our staff can enjoy the holidays with their families and be ready to serve you in the new year.

Newberg hours will be 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the days the university is open for business during the break. We will close for lunch from noon to 1 p.m. until Monday, Jan. 4.

Questions? Contact Josh Nauman at jnauman@georgefox.edu.

Please take note of the courier schedule during the Christmas break:

• Monday, Dec. 21: Courier delivery
• Thursday, Dec. 24: No courier

There will be no courier service between Dec. 28 and Jan. 1. The courier service will resume on Jan. 4.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Richard Silver at rsilver@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2551.

Merry Christmas,
Mail services

A few things to take note of as you mail packages …

No duct tape
As you tape up your outgoing packages being shipped by UPS, U.S. Mail or any other shipping carrier, do not use duct tape of any color. The drivers will refuse to take the package. This was originally a result of security following Sept. 11, 2001. Some carriers are again refusing to take packages with duct tape. Please just use clear packing tape for your outgoing packages.

Fragile packages
If you want “Special Handling for your Fragile package,” the package must be identified with a “Special Handling – Fragile” sticker that we have at mail services. These stickers are provided by the post office, and each sticker costs $10.35, in addition to the shipping costs of the package. For U.S. Mail packages, writing “Fragile” on the package does no good. The carriers do not handle these packages separately.

Shipping original art
If you want special handling of your ‘Original Art Work” you must purchase a $10.35 Fragile sticker at mail services for shipping by U.S. Mail. You still need your package packed securely to prevent damage. The only insurance that would be paid for “original art” would be based on an official appraised value of the piece of art by someone who is licensed to do this.

If you have questions, please email Linda Sartwell at lsartwel@georgefox.edu.