The Daily Bruin

The city of Newberg is seeking the input of George Fox students and employees as it strives to create a vibrant and inviting downtown for all. You are invited to take this online survey to share your opinions, or attend a community visioning workshop from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday Dec. 9, to share and imagine the future of downtown Newberg.

The meeting will take place in the Chehalem Cultural Center Ballroom, at 415 E. Sheridan St. As part of the meeting, those ideas shared in the online survey will be incorporated.

The city, with support from a design consultant and Project Advisory Committee, will be using your input to develop potential concepts to develop the downtown people envision. To learn more, visit this website.

Don’t forget to come to the Newberg Burgerville tonight (Thursday) between 5 and 8 p.m. to support a good cause. Through a partnership between George Fox Liberal Arts and Critical Issues students and Burgerville, 10 percent of all sales during this time frame will benefit Remember Nhu, an organization working to prevent human trafficking in southeast Asia.

Specifically, Remember Nhu provides housing for at-risk children, offering sanctuary, education and safety from kidnapping and forced servitude.

Questions? Contact Ashley Geissler at ageissler12@georgefox.edu.

Winter Formal is approaching quickly and it is time to tune up those swing dancing skills! Coast to Coast will be teaching free swing dancing lessons for those who need to learn before the dance.

The first lesson will be today (Thursday) at 6 p.m. in the Racketball Courts located in Wheeler.

Advent is the beginning of the church year, beginning on the fourth Sunday before Christmas and ending on Christmas Eve. It is the season of remembering the long-awaited Messiah and anticipating the second coming of Jesus, culminating in the celebration of the birth of Jesus on Christmas Day.

This year’s Advent readings were handed out during Tuesday’s chapel. If you were unable to make chapel and would like a copy of the Advent readings, please email the Office for Spiritual and Intercultural Life (SpIL) with your school mailbox number at spirituallife@georgefox.edu.

Merry Christmas,
SpIL

Join us in the Prayer Chapel on Thursday, Dec. 3, for Tefillah, our prayer ministries!

At 10:50 a.m. we’ll host Contemplative Worship, and elective chapel credit is available for this event. We’re working through traditions of contemplative worship – how our forebears have sought God in the quiet – so be sure to join us.

Lifted Hands will meet at 2 p.m. for intercessory prayer. This is a time to come together to lift our community up to God. Don’t miss it!

Questions? Contact Amanda Kitz at akitz13@georgefox.edu.

Friday, Dec. 4, 6 p.m. – Women’s basketball vs. Puget Sound, Miller Gymnasium
Friday, Dec. 4, 8 p.m. – Men’s basketball vs. Puget Sound, Miller Gymnasium

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

Are you planning to finish your degree this spring? Have you submitted your Application for Degree? This form is an essential step in declaring your graduation term and submitting your information for regalia ordering.

If you are not certain whether your form is on record, please feel free to contact your enrollment manager in the registrar’s office.

Questions? Contact Jen Macnab at jmacnab@georgefox.edu.

Calling all hungry students and employees with open hearts, engaged minds and empty stomachs!

Through a partnership between George Fox Liberal Arts and Critical Issues students and Burgerville, 10 percent of all sales at the Newberg Burgerville between 5 and 8 p.m. this Thursday, Dec. 3, will benefit Remember Nhu, an organization working to prevent human trafficking in southeast Asia.

Specifically, Remember Nhu provides housing for at-risk children, offering sanctuary, education and safety from kidnapping and forced servitude.

Do a good deed! Have a burger (or any other burger-related edible) and support a good cause! Come to the Newberg Burgerville between 5 and 8 p.m. Thursday.

Questions? Contact Ashley Geissler at ageissler12@georgefox.edu.

This Friday, Dec. 4, Father Don Gutmann will celebrate Catholic Mass and teach about its historical origins in the early church. Come learn about how ancient Christian beliefs, prayers and practices continue today. We’ll meet from 7 to 8 p.m. in Minthorn 200.

All are welcome. Elective chapel credit is available to students. This event is sponsored by the George Fox Catholic Campus Fellowship.

Questions? Contact Rob Bohall at rbohall@georgefox.edu.

Are you interested in practicing your French skills? Nadine Kincaid, who lived in France and is fluent in French, is hosting a conversation table in the Bruin Den today (Wednesday) from noon to 1 p.m. It’s open to French-speakers of all levels. Come by and join us!

Questions? Contact Thao Anh Gailey at avu13@georgefox.edu.

Take a break from all these final assignments and headaches for an early Christmas celebration!

Instead, come help decorate the Christmas tree, sing carols, eat Christmas cookies, and take in the hot cocoa. Bring your joyous spirit to celebrate Christmas with the residents at Friendsview Retirement Community this Thursday, Dec. 3, from 7 to 8 p.m.

Feel free to bring a musical instrument; there will be a piano there. Meet in the Bruin Den at 6:50 p.m. to head over to Friendsview.

Questions? Please contact Nissi Undurthi at nundurthi14@georgefox.edu.

A beginning guitar class and private guitar lessons are being offered this spring on campus for credit! Sign up and add some fun and a new skill to your schedule.

The Beginning Guitar Class is offered for those new to the guitar who want to learn in a fun group setting. Learn the skills to play all your favorite rock, folk, pop and worship songs! No experience is necessary, but your own guitar is. The class is MUSI 250-A (Tuesdays/Thursdays, 4:15-5:05 p.m.). Currently we’re only offering one section, but may offer a second if the first one fills up.

Private Guitar Lessons are offered to bring your playing to the next level very quickly. One-on-one lessons cover beginners all the way to very experienced players. Sign up and you’ll get top-notch instruction that is specific to your skill level and caters to the styles of music that you really want to learn. We can focus on anything from classical, rock, blues, metal, shred, folk, worship, etc. It’s up to you. The class is MUSA 105 GT/305 GT.

Lessons and class are taught by G.I.T. Musicians Institute graduate and veteran guitar player/instructor Jordan Stricklen.

Email Jordan directly for more info on applied lessons: jstricklen@georgefox.edu.

The School of Nursing’s Health Promotion class presents its first Health Fair! There will be lots of cool prizes, giveaways, snacks and interactive displays.

The Health Fair will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. this Friday, Dec. 4, in the EHS Atrium. This event is open to students and employees and is free!

We hope to see you there!

Questions? Contact Molly Murphy at mmurphy@georgefox.edu.

Alumni and their families, along with George Fox students and employees, are invited to join us for an evening of Christmas festivities and fellowship on Friday, Dec. 4. We will have an opportunity to decorate gingerbread houses together in EHS from 6:30 to 7:15 p.m., followed by singing Christmas carols around the Centennial Tower.

Questions? Contact Kyle Pfeiffer at 503-554-2131 or kpfeiffer@georgefox.edu.

Students: Please remember to lock your November time sheet in the timekeeping system. This will help ensure that your December payroll will be processed on time.

Thank you for all your help,

Kasondra Silva, Payroll Specialist
ksilva@georgefox.edu

My roommate and I are looking for two or three roommates. The cost is $279 a month for five people or $350 for four people to share, not including utility fees. Here are more details:

• Available at the end of the term
• Close to Fred Meyer and Goodwill
• Two large single bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms
• Includes washer/dryer, dishwasher, stove, oven, refrigerator, gas fireplace, several chairs in the unit
• No pets
• Located at 2025 E. 2nd St.

For more details, please contact Annie Chen at jchen13@georgefox.edu or visit this link.

Embrace Ministries and International Justice Mission are teaming up to gather supplies and create kits for Syrian refugee families in the Greek Isles and foster children in Yamhill County.

We will be collecting completed kits and boxes and donated supplies now through finals week. Drop off fully finished kits or individual supplies at the SpIL Annex in the SUB or in the blue bins around campus in Bauman and the Bruin Den.

For lists of supplies and instructions, go to georgefox.edu/embrace or email Mikayla (mgreenwell12@georgefox.edu) or Grace (glownsbery12@georgefox.edu).

We will also be having a packing party for all of these items Sunday, Dec. 6, at 4 p.m. in the Cap and Gown Room. We would love to see you there!

Be sure to join us in Shalom tonight (Tuesday) as we welcome Brittany Phillips from the Hope & Light Initiative with ICMM, as she shares with us about her work and story! She will also be sharing about their recent and developing programs in war and rebel territories with ex-child soldiers and street child support. This is an opportunity you don’t want to miss, so be sure to come to the Cap and Gown Room at 9 p.m. to get in on this conversation.

Also, Hailey Moore will be leading bread making at Lewis 1 at 6 p.m. tonight! Come join us for an awesome time of community and learning how to make the artisan bread we share in Shalom each week.

Questions? Contact Amanda Kitz at akitz13@georgefox.edu.

Attention employees and commuters: The gravel lot will be closed today (Monday, Nov. 30), and should reopen on Tuesday, Dec. 1. If this is your normal lot, please park in the Le Shana lot at the corner of Villa and Fulton streets on Monday.

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

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.

Thank you and Happy Holidays!

– The Finance Department