The Daily Bruin

The Students for Life group on campus will host a prayer vigil this Monday, Feb. 24, from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Prayer Chapel. We will be lifting up the issues of life to God in prayer.

To learn more, write StudentsForLifeGFU@gmail.com.

“Prayer lays hold of God’s plan and becomes the link between His will and its accomplishment on earth. Amazing things happen, and we are given the privilege of being the channels of the Holy Spirit’s prayer.” – Elisabeth Elliot

“Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers.” – J. Sidlow Baxter

Don’t forget the International Club’s Chinese lab happening today (Thursday) at 6:30 p.m. in Lemmons 5. The topic will be on Lunar New Year/ Valentine’s Day!

For more information, contact us at gfu.international.club@gmail.com.

Join us for snacks, friendship and fun! All are invited.

Members of Team V.C.R. in the Entrepreneurship 300 class are offering the opportunity to customize your own T-shirt. Pre-orders are now being accepted.

Currently, two shirts are available for customization: tie-dye shirts and shirts with custom graphics. For the tie-dye shirts, we will most likely have two packaged kits to choose from – one containing everything you need to make your own shirt and a second, less expensive kit with all the necessary supplies except for the shirt itself. Both kits will likely cost under $10 apiece.

For custom graphics shirts, we are open to accepting custom designs that you submit and we place on your T-shirt. The only requirements are that designs need to be George Fox appropriate and not a trademarked logo such as the Nike swoosh. The designs also need to fit on one piece of paper. These shirts will most likely cost around $10 each.

If you are interested in either of these options, contact Christopher Kampmann at kampmannc13@georgefox.edu. When placing an order for the tie-dye shirts, let him know your kit preference and, if purchasing a shirt, your shirt size. If ordering a custom graphics shirt, send him your shirt size and graphic.

The option that receives the most pre-orders is what we will most likely sell. We would also like to personally reach out to any sports teams or clubs that would like to have their own custom shirt.

Don’t forget tonight’s (Thursday’s) concert in Bauman Auditorium. Kenn Willson, a Bösendorfer Educational Artist and professor of music history and keyboard studies, will present his “Encounters with Beethoven” concert at 7:30 p.m.

Employees and students are entitled to one complimentary ticket each. They can be picked up in the Box Office located in the Pennington House. Additional tickets may be purchased on this page.

Willson will perform German Dance #1, Sonata Op. 31 #3, Sonata Op. 27 #2 (“Moonlight”) and Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee (Tune: Ode to Joy).

When there is an emergency campus closure, usually due to inclement weather as was the case from late afternoon Thursday, Feb. 6, through mid-morning Monday, Feb. 10, the university’s policy indicates the following in the Employee Handbook, Section 7.1 Emergency Closure:

• If the university is closed, employees are paid as if they worked.
• If the university has a late opening and/or early closure, employees who work during the open hours are paid for a full work day.
• If employees cannot make it in, their absence is covered by the use of vacation or is unpaid if vacation is not available.
• Employees who are required to work to assist with facilities and safety issues as a result of the weather or for other reasons (such as Scholarship Competition), will be given time off within the following 30 days equal to the time they worked during the closure.

Staff should record only hours worked on their time sheets for Thursday, Feb. 6, through Monday, Feb. 10. If you were not required to be at work while the university was closed, please record only hours worked until 4 p.m. Thursday and no hours prior to 10 a.m. on Monday. You will be paid your regularly scheduled hours between those times.

When you take corresponding time off, please enter the hours taken in the Holiday row of the specific day, so that it doesn’t show as hours worked, sick leave or vacation. Then please note on the time sheet that these were “snow hours.”

Please note: Employees who happened to be on vacation or using sick leave the day of these closures should record those days/hours as vacation or sick leave, just as they would have had the campus been open.

Questions? Please email hr@georgefox.edu.

The International Club is bringing the Chinese lab back! It will be this Thursday, Feb. 20, at 6:30 p.m. in Lemmons 5. The topic will be on Lunar New Year/ Valentine’s Day!

For more information, contact us at gfu.international.club@gmail.com.

Join us for snacks, friendship and fun! All are invited.

Financial affairs would like to remind all departments that it is George Fox University’s policy to deposit all monies within one week of receipt in the departments. In order to do so, financial affairs needs to receive all cash/checks within that week, and they will be deposited in the bank within 24 hours. This policy also applies to payments received for future events.

If you have questions, please contact Jan Amerson at ext. 2164. Thank you!

Now is the time to submit your request for business cards. Marketing communications will be processing a business card order soon. Place your order directly with B&B Print Source by Tuesday, March 4.

Questions? Contact Danette Newkirk at dnewkirk@georgefox.edu.

Spring break is coming up! Join a Spring Serve Trip and travel to Neah Bay, Wash.; Flying H Youth Ranch; Ghormley Meadows Christian Camp; Seattle; San Francisco; and the Yakima Indian Reservation. These trips go during the break. The cost is only $25 for the entire week, which includes food and transportation! The deadline to sign up for the trips has been extended to Wednesday, Feb. 26.

Applications can be found on the SpiL website on this page. We are also still seeking employee leaders.

If you have any questions or would like more information, contact Kyle Webster at kwebster12@georgefox.edu or Erika Lopez at elopez12@georgefox.edu.

This Friday, Feb. 21, we’ll be selling homemade chicken tamales in the Bruin Den for $2 each! This is hosted by students in the ENPR 300 class and is supporting your student entrepreneurs at George Fox.

Tamales will be available for purchase during lunchtime, from 11:45 a.m. to 2 p.m. We have a limited supply, so get them before they’re gone!

The university community is invited to Kayin Griffith’s thank you and congratulations party! We’ll gather from 1 to 3 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 27, in the International Center/Cultural House.

Kayin, assistant director of SpIL programs, has accepted an exciting new opportunity as the director of advocacy and development for the organization Word Made Flesh. Join us as we celebrate her and bless her new endeavors!

The university’s International Club has 15 tickets for the Blazers game on Monday, March 3, against the Los Angeles Lakers. Tickets are $40 apiece, which includes transportation that evening.

Please contact Louis Liu (lliu11@georgefox.edu) for more information.

We’ve updated our Schedule of Development Events by adding a few more FoxTALE webinars providing tips and best practices on using the FoxTALE Gradebook. Check out the schedule at this link to sign up for one that works with your schedule.

– IT Educational Technology Team

Come support the women’s lacrosse team as the Bruins host their first official game in program history next Tuesday, Feb. 25, at the Austin Sports Complex. The game starts at 6 p.m. against Alma College of Michigan.

If you have questions, please contact Shanna Coulston at scoulston11@georgefox.edu.

Ty Dye, head of the company Unlock Limits Coaching Groups, will share on “Equipping 101 – What Every Leader Needs To Know” at this month’s Newberg meeting of the Christian Chamber of Commerce of the Northwest. The meeting is from 7:30 to 9 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 25, in the Villa Academic Complex.

Dye is a certified teacher, speaker and teacher with the John Maxwell Team and was recently part of an international group that trained 24,000 leaders in Guatemala. Dye spent more than 20 years in sales and sales management, developing teams in multiple companies and industries. He is passionate about helping others develop in their leadership skills and unleashing their God-given strengths.

For more information, go to the Chamber’s website at cccnw.net or call 503-928-8354.

What does the future hold for higher education? This week, President Robin Baker addresses the question in his blog. Feel free to read the piece here.

Wednesday, Feb. 19, is the last day you can nominate someone for February Employee of the Month.

To nominate a colleague for this month’s award, please send an email to Peggy Kilburg by day’s end with a summary of this person’s contributions and/or outstanding performance in the past 30 days or so. The winner will be announced and presented with a $100 Visa gift card at our all-employee meeting on Thursday, Feb. 27.

The works of Beethoven will be performed on the George Fox stage when Bösendorfer Educational Artist Kenn Willson presents his “Encounters with Beethoven” concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 20, in Bauman Auditorium.

Employees and students are entitled to one complimentary ticket each. They can be picked up in the Box Office located in the Pennington House. Additional tickets may be purchased on this page.

Willson will perform German Dance #1, Sonata Op. 31 #3, Sonata Op. 27 #2 (“Moonlight”) and Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee (Tune: Ode to Joy). He has traveled to Vienna, Austria, and to the Piano Academy in Recanati, Italy, to perform. He is also known throughout the region for his “Encounters with Beethoven” performances. In 2005, Willson was named a Bösendorfer Educational Artist by the Viennese Piano Manufacturing Company.

The Bösendorfer Concert Series, sponsored by the music department, has brought in world-renowned classical pianists since its inception in 2007. Past performers have included Baruch Meir, Gianluca Luisi of Italy and Valentina Lisitsa of Ukraine.

You are invited to join us tonight (Tuesday) for a human trafficking awareness event hosted by the university’s Social Work Club.

Come hear from Door to Grace, a nonprofit organization that was founded as a door to freedom for girls forced into the sex trade. We are excited to host multiple guest speakers to address issues of prevention, rescue and action.

We would be honored if you and your friends would join us from 6 to 8 p.m. in Hoover 105. Contact Isabella Freeman at ifreeman11@georgefox.edu.

You are warmly invited to Kayin Griffith’s thank you and congratulations party! We’ll gather from 1 to 3 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 27, in the International Center/Cultural House.

Kayin, assistant director of SpIL programs, has accepted an exciting new opportunity as the director of advocacy and development for the organization Word Made Flesh. She will be using her skills and talents to develop and implement new strategies for WMF’s fund development as well as helping to connect people to the WMF mission.

While the George Fox community will dearly miss Kayin, we are so excited for this new chapter in her life! Join us as we celebrate her and bless her new endeavors!