The Daily Bruin

Do you love to serve? Does volunteering for the larger vision of Martin Luther King Jr. inspire you? How about in Portland?

Your chance to get involved with our neighboring community is finally here, with the opportunity to be a part of MLK Day of Service in Portland!

MLK Day of Service is a day we are able to live into this vision Dr. King had for serving and justice. Though one day of service is never enough to fully celebrate him or what he stood for, we hope you are able to join us for this day of service and recognition of Dr. King.

MLK Day of Service takes place on Monday, Jan. 18. You can register and find more information about what the day will look like here.

If you have any questions or concerns, please email spirituallife@georgefox.edu.

Come support our theatre students this week! Join us Wednesday and Thursday, Dec. 9-10, at 10:10 p.m. in Wood-Mar Auditorium as we present a series of student-directed one-act plays in our Ten! Ten! Ten! performance.

Admission is only $1. See you there!

Questions? Contact Aliya Whitehill at awhitehill14@georgefox.edu.

President Robin Baker has posted a blog piece in which he reflects on Christmas and the challenge of keeping Christ at the center of the season despite cultural trends that run counter to that tradition. You can read the piece here.

Does your LinkedIn profile stand out among the crowd? The IDEA Center will be hosting two LinkedIn drop-in sessions tomorrow (Wednesday) from noon to 1 p.m. and from 3 to 4 p.m.

Drop by the IDEA Center on the first floor of Stevens during either of those times, and we will help you write a summary and experience section that will get you noticed and maybe even get you a job!

Faculty, please alert students to this opportunity.

Questions? Contact Kaitlyn Ragan at kragan@georgefox.edu.

The Bruin Store will be closed all day today (Tuesday, Dec. 8), due to inventory. So sorry for the inconvenience. Thank you for supporting your Bruin Store!

Please check us out at georgefoxshop.com and “like” us on Facebook!

The Office of Spiritual and Intercultural Life invites the entire community to our Christmas chapel today (Tuesday) at 10:50 a.m. in Bauman Auditorium. President Robin Baker will share, Danielle Warner will lead our choir in several songs, and together we will celebrate the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ. All faculty and staff are invited to join.

If you have any questions, please contact us at spirituallife@georgefox.edu.

Merry Christmas!

Sigma Zeta’s “Big Question Night” tackles the tough questions facing the reconciliation of science and the Christian faith. Meet us for our fourth open student-led discussion tonight (Tuesday) from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. in Lemmons 14.

We specifically will be talking about creation and evolution theory (potentially among other topics). All on campus are invited to participate. Snacks will be provided.

Questions? Contact Joel Rurik at jrurik12@georgefox.edu.

Be sure to join us for Tefillah, our prayer ministries on campus! We’re hosting two events on Thursday, Dec. 10, in the Prayer Chapel, located behind Edwards Hall next to the stairs to the canyon.

Contemplative worship is at 10:50 a.m. Currently, we’re going through traditions of how people have met God in the quiet. Chapel credit is available, so for those of you who need credit be sure to take advantage of this opportunity.

Lifted Hands, our time of intercessory prayer, will follow at 2 p.m. Be sure to join us as we lift up our campus in prayer together!

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

Be sure to join us in Shalom tonight (Tuesday) as we loosen up before finals week with some creative worship. We’ll be celebrating the Imago Dei in us, as we are made in the image of a Creator God. This is an event you don’t want to miss! Join us at 9 p.m. in the Cap and Gown Room for Shalom and at 6 p.m. in Lewis 1 for bread making!

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

If you are in a relationship, would you mind taking a few short minutes to take this survey and help us out with our Gender Communication class final project? There are only about 10 questions. It would help a lot!

Thank you so much!
Heather McDonald (hmcdonald13@georgefox.edu)

Romantic Relationships Survey

P.S. We need male and female responses, so please keep that in mind.

Disclaimer:
These surveys are student generated and are not to be associated with any official research conducted by faculty and staff at George Fox University. Any views or opinions presented in these surveys are solely those of the students and do not represent those of George Fox University. The distribution of these surveys is a service provided to George Fox University students as they prepare their research required by the curriculum. Students are required to have department approval. Any questions about these surveys should be directed to the students associated with the survey in question.

Winter Formal tickets go on sale today (Monday) in the Bruins Den from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tickets for GFU students are $5 and non-GFU guests are $10. Tickets will be sold all week.

Winter Formal will take place Sunday, Dec. 13 at 8 p.m. at the Left Bank Annex.

The university community is invited to an all-employee meeting from 3:30 to 5 p.m. this Thursday, Dec. 10, in Hoover 105. The event will be live-streamed at the Portland Center in Room 160.

Please join us for the Portland Center wassail party! Stop by the lobby between 2 and 6 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 10, for Christmas treats, hot beverages, and a good dose of holiday cheer!

For our community musicians, please play your favorite Christmas music on our piano in the lobby. It’s open anytime! We would love to hear the ivories!

Questions? Contact Darla Norgren at dnorgren@georgefox.edu.

Join the Christmas celebration at the library’s annual Wassail Party next Monday, Dec. 14, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Please take a break on “Dead Day” and join us in the MLRC multi-purpose room for snacks, wassail and coffee.

It’s our treat to you!

The Office of Spiritual and Intercultural Life invites the entire community to our Christmas chapel on Tuesday, Dec. 8, at 10:50 a.m. in Bauman Auditorium. President Robin Baker will share, Danielle Warner will lead our choir in several songs, and together we will celebrate the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ. All faculty and staff are invited to join.

Also, on Wednesday evening, our final Vespers of the semester will be a “Lessons and Carols” service held in three different locations at our normal time, 7 p.m. Choose one of the following (the same service will happen in each location):

• Hoover 105
• Lemmons 8
• Wood-Mar Auditorium

If you have any questions, please contact us at spirituallife@georgefox.edu.

Merry Christmas!

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.

All employees and their families are invited to join Robin and Ruth Baker for the Bakers’ annual Christmas Open House from 5 to 8 p.m. this Sunday, Dec. 13, at the Edwards House (402 S. College St.).

Light appetizers and holiday sweets will be served as we celebrate together.

Questions? Contact Missy Terry at ext. 2101 or terrym@georgefox.edu.

Today (Monday) we’re hosting a student-led fundraiser for the Migrant Offshore Aid Station, a Malta-based registered foundation dedicated to preventing loss of life by providing professional search-and-rescue assistance to people in distress at sea or trapped on unsafe vessels.

Stop by the front of the ASC office in the Student Union Building between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. to purchase cake pops. All profits will be donated directly to MOAS.

With the ongoing migrant crisis, this organization has become even more necessary. Visit their webpage to find out more, and feel free to contact McKayla Phillips (mphillips13@georgefox.edu) or write anilo13@georgefox.edu if you have any questions.

Sigma Zeta’s “Big Question Night” tackles the tough questions facing the reconciliation of science and the Christian faith. Meet us for our fourth open student-led discussion on Tuesday, Dec. 8, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. in Lemmons 14.

We specifically will be talking about creation and evolution theory (potentially among other topics). All on campus are invited to participate. Snacks will be provided.

Questions? Contact Joel Rurik at jrurik12@georgefox.edu.

The Bruin Store will be closed all day Tuesday, Dec. 8, due to inventory. So sorry for the inconvenience. Thank you for supporting your Bruin Store!

Please check us out at georgefoxshop.com and “like” us on Facebook!