The Ecology Club is hosting a field trip to the Oregon Coast on Saturday, Nov. 17. We will be leaving in the morning and spending the day exploring tide pools, whale watching, birding, etc. This field trip is open to all students, but we have limited spots available.
If you would like to come or have any questions, please contact Shelby Byerly (sbyerly15@georgefox.edu).
Fall Retreat is this weekend! Did you register?
The theme for this year’s Fall Retreat is R E S T, which comes from Mark 6:31, where Jesus says, “Let’s go off by ourselves to a quiet place and rest awhile.†We will spend the weekend learning to lean into the belief that God is the ultimate provider of rest.
The Fall Retreat will be Nov. 9-11 at Twin Rocks Camp. This will be a time carved out especially for you and your needs in this busy season. There will be worship, a speaker, fun activities and fellowship with one another.
For more info or if you have questions, go to this link and look under the “Get Involved†tab. To register and pay, follow this link.
We hope you can make it! Faculty, please tell your students about this opportunity. For more information, contact SpIL (spirituallife@georgefox.edu).
Join us for the final Bruins Lead event of the semester in Wheeler 208 from 10:45 to 11:30 a.m. today (Thursday).
Director of Athletics Adam Puckett will be speaking about his leadership experience in the accounting world and how those experiences helped prepare him for his role today. Adam will also be talking about the importance of sacrifice in Christian leadership.
Contact Elise Trask (etrask@georgefox.edu) with any questions.
Tomorrow is the day! Hear from Norah Otondo, the program director for Quilts for Empowerment, about her journey of faith and resilience in the face of stigmatization and suffering at 7 p.m. in the Intercultural Resource Center.
QFE is a local nonprofit that works toward personal and economic empowerment for sexual assault and obstetric fistula survivors in Kenya. This is Norah’s first time traveling outside of Africa to share her story.
If you would like to hear a voice that often goes unheard, engage in discussions at a multicultural event, see the beautiful art quilts created by survivors, and learn how QFE is empowering women, then please come!
Light refreshments and good company will be present. Elective chapel credit is offered.
Contact Justine Hostetler (jhostetler16@georgefox.edu) for more information.
Do you enjoy writing or creating art and want to see your work in print? Wineskin submissions close after Friday, Nov. 9, so be sure to send in your work before it’s too late!
There is no theme for this semester – just send us your best work. We are looking for poems, stories, essays and artwork that encourage a new perspective of the world and intrigue us with their attention to patterns of sight, touch, thought and sound.
All poetry, prose, photography and artwork may be submitted to gfuwineskin@gmail.com (Please limit all prose to 1,000 words and send no more than five poems per submission). Please title each piece and remove all watermarks.
Contact Hannah Dierdorff (hdierdorff15@georgefox.edu) with any questions.
Participants are still needed! Seniors Briyonna Felan and Samantha Taylor are conducting a study that looks at the effects of exercise on mental health in college-aged students. Participants will be required to run a one-and-a-half mile run on the track.
Those who participate will be entered to win one of two $10 Coffee Cottage gift cards! Find the sign-up sheet here.
Questions? Contact Briyonna Felan (bfelan15@georgefox.edu).
Join us tomorrow (Friday) from 11 a.m. to noon in Hoover 105 to hear about asset allocation from Jon Nelson, CEO and founder of Preston Ventures. Learn how to maximize gains and limit risk in your investments.
Questions? Contact Ryan Mendenhall (rmendenhall17@georgefox.edu).
We are in need of actors for a mini-documentary that explores spiritual abuse in the church today and what churches are doing to prevent this form of abuse. We have collected stories from people about their experiences, but for safety purposes, we don’t wish to feature them in the film.
To portray them, we’re looking for voice actors who can capture the emotions these people felt. They will be filmed in a silhouette setting, so even if you do not match the target age for a certain role, it is still possible your voice could fit what we are looking for.
These are the roles:
We also have two non-speaking roles in which an actor will be seen in our film:
Only one day of filming will be required for each part. The auditions will be held in Lemmons 4 from 6 to 8 p.m. tonight (Thursday). Each person will receive 15 minutes. Please contact Rebekah Springsteel at rspringsteel15@georgefox.edu if you are interested.
Save the date for our holiday chapels! Thanksgiving Chapel is on Tuesday, Nov. 20, at 10:50 a.m., and Christmas Chapel is set for Tuesday, Dec. 4, at 10:50 a.m.
Join us for communion and testimonies of gratitude as we prepare our hearts for the Thanksgiving holiday. We encourage employees to attend these holiday chapels!
Please join us at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow (Thursday) in Hoover 105 for a night of Spoken Word. The topic will be “You and I.”
Today we are extremely divided because of gender, race, religion, culture, politics, opinions, etc. This theme was chosen to highlight the division among us, as well as to discuss some ways we can mend the division we have created.
We are still looking for creatives, poets, rappers, quiet souls, etc. to share their truth (we would love for you to stick with the theme, but you have full creative freedom).
Questions/ interested in performing? Contact Tanner Aliff (taliff15@georgefox.edu) or Kaheela Reid (kreid15@georgefox.edu).
Evan Bonazzola is the winner of a $50 Amazon gift card! Do you want to be like Evan? Evan signed up to save a tree and win $50 by consenting to a paperless W2 tax form.
We have another drawing this week. All students who log in to MyGFU and consent accessing their W2 tax forms at the end of the year electronically will be entered to win. The entry window is short (Nov. 6-9), so your chances are very good to win a $50 Amazon card.
It takes 30 seconds. Click here, check the consent box and hit submit. Your current status should say “Consent Received.”
Please join us in the Canyon Commons banquet room for a Chinese dumpling event on Monday, Nov. 12, at 7 p.m. Come learn how to make dumplings and share in the festivities as we kick off our Cultural Celebration Week.
We hope to see you there! Contact Alex Pia (apia@georgefox.edu) or Elizabeth Anderson (eanderson@georgefox.edu) for more information.
Make plans to attend the Department of Music’s Chamber Concert, featuring a diverse collection of George Fox’s vocal, string and keyboard musicians, tomorrow (Thursday) at 7:30 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium.
Admission is free! For more information, contact Danielle Warner (dwarner@georgefox.edu).
All social work students are invited to come hear how the predominating messages about gender in evangelical popular culture are negative and limiting, both for women and for men. In this semester’s diversity forum, Melanie Springer Mock, professor of English, considers the source of these messages about gender, and why they can be so damaging, especially to young people seeking their vocations.
Join us at the forum on Monday, Nov. 12, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in Stevens 209.
Melanie believes that evangelical culture’s focus on gender, sex and “biblical manhood and womanhood,” often premised on a misguided interpretation of Scripture, makes it especially difficult for women and men to live in the freedom and grace Jesus offers them.
The diversity forum will provide ample space to consider Christian messaging about gender; to ask questions about what it means for women and men to be created in God’s image; and to think together about how we can create a different world where our lives are not defined by gender roles or even gender identity, but by our own unique callings and gifts.
Questions? Contact Kim Rapp (rappk@georgefox.edu).
For those of you who do not know, the Fencing Club is open to all levels of experience, from novice to a childhood spent with a sword in hand. The purpose of the club is to have fun and learn how to have a good sword fight every Wednesday night. We supply the equipment, but you are free to bring your own along.
We meet at the Hadlock Student Center in Room 014 from 8 to 9 p.m. Questions? Contact Laurelle Ramsey (lramsey16@georgefox.edu).
Do you love mentoring high school or middle schoolers? Do you love Young Life? Come to a meeting where high school Young Life and middle school Wyldlife leaders come and share their experiences of how leading has changed them.
Learn how you can get involved, too! We are meeting tonight (Wednesday) at 6 p.m. in Stevens 109. Pizza will be provided.
Questions? Contact Christina Nase (cnase16@georgefox.edu).
Calling all fall grads! Seniors graduating this December are invited to celebrate at the Exodus Grad Fair in Canyon Commons 101-102 today (Wednesday) between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Pick up your cap and gown and get checked out with the university offices before you graduate.
Plus, enjoy FREE snacks and raffle prizes too!
Learn more here.
A handful of people are needed for a trial run of two different conditioning protocols for a student project. This will take place on Monday, Nov. 12, at 2 p.m. and Thursday, Nov. 15, at 9:30 a.m. on the football field.
It will only take 10 to 15 minutes of your time. If this is something you would be interested in, come wearing comfortable workout gear suitable for running. Thank you.
For more information, please contact Anthony Jaimez (ajaimez17@georgefox.edu).
The university community is invited to a special William Penn Honors Program lecture featuring Bradley Campbell, coauthor of The Rise of Victimhood Culture: Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars, in Hoover 105 at 7:30 p.m. tonight (Wednesday). The title of his presentation is “Dignity, Victimhood and the Future of the University.â€
Campbell, a sociologist, will discuss the challenges that new moral concepts and related trends are posing to scholarship, free speech and students’ well-being at contemporary universities, along with some possible solutions. The lecture is free and open to the public.
For more information, contact Helen Morse (hmorse@georgefox.edu).
Do you like pizza? Of course you do! Come support the Haiti SpiL trip team at Round Table Pizza in Newberg between 4 and 9 p.m. today (Wednesday).
The Haiti team will be going to the country this winter break to provide health education, host youth conferences, and help with the needs of the nonprofit organization MamaBaby Haiti. Mention you are there to support the Haiti team and 20 percent of your purchase will go toward supporting the team!
See you there! Contact Amanda Heckmann (aheckmann14@georgefox.edu) for more information.
