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Do any of you have experience as a line cook? Would you like to gain experience in the art of food service and catering?

The university’s Urban Services is seeking to help All Saints Episcopal Church in Portland, which is in need of a line cook and sous chef, plus a set-up and food serving team on the third Saturday of March and April. We are seeking six or seven students who are interested in participating in this service.

Every Saturday, the church serves lunch to 80-100 homeless people in Portland. They currently do not have anyone to help with the cooking this coming Saturday (March 17) and on April 22. Volunteers wouldn’t have to commit to both of these dates.

Ideally, we would like to put together a team of students who are interested in helping over the summer as well as during the semester.

Interested? Contact Mary Owen, Urban Services coordinator for Portland, at mowen10@georgefox.edu. I need to know before Wednesday so I can let them know if they will have help or not.

Thank you!

Do you like to walk, run or volunteer? The university’s Social Work Club is seeking volunteers for a Child Abuse Awareness Walk and Run on Saturday, April 28, at Cook Park in Tigard.

Volunteers will help with the following positions: hand out food and water, cheer people on, keep people on the correct course, set up, tear down and clean up, aid people in the resource booth, hand out the blue ribbons, and talk about the blue ribbon campaign. Volunteers will receive a free T-shirt for their participation in this event.

This event is being sponsored by the Social Work Club and supported by the Department of Human Services, Healthy Start, the Domestic Violence Resource Center, Community Action, and a number of other agencies. These agencies would greatly appreciate your support.

Please contact Stephanie Abdulmajid at sabdulmajid09@georgefox.edu if you would like to volunteer or have any questions about this event.

If you are interested in walking or running, sign up here.

Please join with other students, faculty, alumni, parents and friends of George Fox University for a time of joint prayer this Saturday, March 10, from 9 a.m. to noon. We will begin in Klages Dining Hall with one of our chapel worship bands, followed by a time of prayer, both in groups and on a walking tour of campus. Prayer is powerful and effective!

If you have questions, please contact Nancy Almquist, director of parent relations, at 503-554-2114 or nalmquist@georgefox.edu.

Share your “Be Known Experience” and you could win a Kindle Touch!

Tell us a story about a special way a faculty or staff member at George Fox made you feel known, in or outside of the classroom. We’ll draw five winners who will each receive a $10 Amazon gift certificate. One lucky winner will get a brand new Kindle Touch!

Current students and alumni are welcome to enter. Visit this page to submit your story. The winners will be drawn and announced on Monday, March 12. Good luck!

Questions? E-mail Eric Mortinson at emortinson@georgefox.edu.

Its time again to collect non-perishable food or make a financial donation toward bulk-food purchases for kids in need.

From March 5 to March 19, two collection sites will be provided; the first-floor lobby and upstairs atrium of the Portland Center. Donations can also be make by checks written to: Take Action, Inc.

All students, employees, and friends are encouraged to participate.

Take Action, Inc. works with 450 + students from 16 elementary schools in the Portland Metro area to ensure children from economically challenged homes have food to eat when they go home on the weekend. For more information on this organization, check-out their website at: takeactioninc.org

Below is a sample list of items that you can donate:

• small jars of peanut butter and jelly
• canned meats (beef, chicken, tuna)
• non-perishable milk drinks
• macaroni and cheese cups
• canned meals (ravioli, stew, soups, etc)
• instant oatmeal
• fruit cups
• canned vegetables
• nuts and other healthy snacks

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All diploma frames are on a clearance sale in the Bruin Bookstore. Frames are marked at 50 percent off retail pricing. They will sell quickly, so don’t hesitate. You may order them from our website at gfubookstore.com, or you may purchase them directly in the bookstore.

Faculty, please let your students know about this sale.

What does it mean to be a true neighbor – one who embraces Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s call to join a “beloved community,” a community of welcoming hospitality that confronts poverty, homelessness and racism? This question will be addressed at the university’s 27th annual John Woolman Peacemaking Forum next week.

Leroy Barber, president of Mission Year, a national urban initiative that introduces 18- to 29-year-olds to missional and communal living in city centers for one year of their lives, will speak twice on Monday, Feb. 27: On “Beloved Community” in chapel at 10:40 a.m., and on “Community Transformation” that night at 7:30 p.m. in EHS 102.

Joining Barber will be Chris Lahr, a recruiter and academic director for Mission Year. He will speak on issues related to racial awareness and reconciliation in the Perspectives on Christian Education class from 3:40 to 4:30 p.m. Monday afternoon in Lemmons 15.

In addition, George Fox will participate in a panel discussion, “Where will the leadership come from to end the Korean War and solve the Israeli Palestinian Conflict,” from 2 to 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 29, at the Buckley Center on the University of Portland campus. Headlining the panel is F.W. de Klerk, the former president of South Africa who, in 1993, was named co-winner (with Nelson Mandela) of the Nobel Peace Prize. He’ll be joined on the panel by university presidents, including George Fox’s Robin Baker, and others. The event will include a Q&A time afterwards.

All university students and personnel are invited to attend the panel for free.

For more information on any of the events, visit the Woolman Forum site or call the Center for Peace at Justice at ext. 2686.

FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 6:30 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Tuesday, Feb. 28, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience. If you have questions, please contact the IT Service Desk.

In preparation for the University Day of Prayer on March 10, Sarah Baldwin would like any prayer request that you have for yourself, your family or the Fox community. Please send them directly to her at sbaldwin@georgefox.edu. Indicate if you would prefer for this request to be kept anonymous.

We anticipate having about 200 people praying for these requests on campus and around the Northwest on the Day of Prayer. The Fox pastoral team will also continue to pray for your requests throughout spring semester.

Calling all college students in the Portland area! Come hear George Fox professor Steve Sherwood at a college worship night at Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church in Happy Valley this Sunday, Feb. 26, from 8 to 10 p.m. It’s sure to be a great time of fellowship!

If you have any questions or are willing to drive a van for students who need transportation, contact Kacee Woods at kwoods10@georgefox.edu. The church is located at 9800 S.E. 92nd Ave., in Happy Valley.

The university’s Department of Biology and Chemistry invites you to join us for our second annual Dalton Lecture Series event, “God of Antimatter,” featuring Dr. Gerald Gabrielse, Harvard’s Leverett Professor of Physics, at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 20.

Dr. Gabrielse has won Harvard’s Levenson Prize for exceptional teaching and the Ledlie Prize for exceptional research. He is currently the chair of the Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics of the American Physical Society.

Dr. Gabrielse will address questions such as “What role does faith have in a scientist’s life?” and “Is there more to our world than science can say?”

The presentation will be held in Wood-Mar Auditorium and will be free of charge. A reception and George Fox student research poster session will follow. Please contact Jane Sweet at jsweet@georgegox.edu if you have any questions.

Mark your calendar and plan to join us for the University Day of Prayer, scheduled for Saturday, March 10, from 9 a.m. to noon. Let’s join together – parents, students, alumni, employees and friends of the university – in a unified voice as we pray together for George Fox University. In addition to prayer time scheduled on the Newberg campus, we will have regional prayer sites in Oregon, Washington, California and Idaho.

For more information, contact Nancy Almquist, director of Parent Relations, at nalmquist@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2114.

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Come in and see the Bruin Bookstore’s new Columbia Sportswear and School House products. While you’re here, check out our sale items marked down 33 percent.

Tickets are now available for the university’s winter musical production, She Loves Me. The play opens Thursday, Feb. 2, and runs Thursday through Sunday, Feb. 2-5, and again Thursday through Sunday, Feb. 9-12, in Wood-Mar Auditorium. All shows begin at 7:30 p.m. with the exception of the two Sunday (Feb. 5 and 12) performances, scheduled as 2 p.m. matinees.

Tickets are available at the box office between 10 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. and can be claimed by dropping by or calling 503-554-3844. Tickets are also available online at theatre.georgefox.edu. Employees get one complimentary ticket for any performance, and Thursday nights are free student nights. The box office is now located at the information desk on the first floor of the Stevens Center.

For a synopsis of the play, visit the theatre web page.

The campus community is invited to join us for the Peace and Justice Symposium scheduled for tonight (Tuesday) from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the Quaker Heritage Room (upstairs of library).

Speakers will be George Fox’s own Irv Brendlinger, professor of church history and theology, and his daughter Carol Joy, who serves as the ecumenical campus minister for the Portland Campus Christian Ministry housed at the Spiritual Life Center at PSU.

Come join us as this father/daughter duo share stories relating to their interaction with peace and justice throughout their lives.

Questions? Contact Melanie Newell in the Center for Peace and Justice (ext. 2686).

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– Valerie Rogers

George Fox’s Voices of Praise Gospel Choir will make a special appearance as part of Horizon Christian High School’s presentation of Godspell this Friday through Sunday, Jan. 27-29, at the PCC-Sylvania Big Theater.

The production will feature 16 students from Horizon as they present the teachings of Jesus in John Michael Tebelak’s Broadway hit musical. This musical took the theater world by storm in 1972 and is just as pertinent today. The play features the music of Stephen Schwartz, of Wicked fame.

Shows are Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets are on sale now for $10 at this link.

Questions? Contact Shelley Yonemura at syonemura@georgefox.edu.

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