The Daily Bruin

Know students who are pre-professional health bound? Encourage them to learn how MedSend healthcare professionals bring physical and spiritual healing to the nations. One of MedSend’s primary activities is to offer student loan repayment grants to healthcare professionals who are headed for career healthcare mission service.

Students are welcome to learn more about this opportunity tonight (Wednesday) at 7 p.m. in EHS 102. More information is available by contacting Jennifer McCollum at jmccollum@georgefox.edu.

Are you pre-professional health bound? Learn how God is using MedSend healthcare professionals to bring physical and spiritual healing to the nations. One of MedSend’s primary activities is to offer student loan repayment grants to healthcare professionals who are headed for career healthcare mission service.

Come learn more about this amazing opportunity tonight (Wednesday) at 7 p.m. in EHS 102. If you have any questions, please contact Jennifer McCollum at jmccollum@georgefox.edu.

Are you interested in learning some basic Chinese phrases and pronunciation assistance for students’ names? Would you like to learn a little more about Chinese culture? Then this is the weekly instruction time for you.

Each Friday from noon to 12:50 p.m. at the International Center/Cultural House, our visiting professors from China will be offering a time for our George Fox faculty, staff and administrators to learn Chinese language and culture.

The first session will be this Friday at noon. We hope you will be able to join us!

Questions? Contact Alex Pia at apia@georgefox.edu.

Chapel is tonight (Wednesday) at 7 p.m. in the Bauman Auditorium. Come hear from Jamie Johnson as he continues our “Unfolding Life” series. He will preach from Matthew 8 on the cost of following Jesus. Chapel credit is available.

For more information, please visit spirituallife.georgefox.edu or email spirituallife@georgefox.edu.

All students and employees are welcome to attend the second installment of the student life discussion series, Symposium: A Forum for Uncommon Conversations. Our topic for this week is “Stories of Struggle: Christians and Mental Health.”

Join us Thursday, Oct. 30, from 10:50 to 11:40 a.m. in EHS 102 to hear Bill Buhrow and Kris Kays share about mental health issues on our campus. We will also hear from a student about their personal experiences with mental health at Fox.

Elective chapel credit is available. Questions? Please contact Lizzy Riese at eriese11@georgefox.edu.

If you received federal loans while attending George Fox, it is a federal requirement that you complete exit loan counseling. The financial aid office is offering workshops to all graduating students on loan repayment starting in November. The workshops will cover topics such as how to afford your loan payments, what to do if you can’t afford them, and loan forgiveness.

To view dates/times and sign up, visit this link.

Questions? Please contact Johanna Schweitzer at jschweitzer@georgefox.edu

Fall Escape is coming up (Nov. 7-9). Registration will be available this week, through Friday, Oct. 31, in the Bruin Den from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Escape the Newberg bubble with your friends for a weekend! The cost is $20. You will be provided a cabin on the Pacific Coast, workshops with Doreen Dodgen-Magee, and all the amenities that Twin Rocks Friends Camp has to offer for a weekend!

For more information, email Josh Garcia at garciaj11@georgefox.edu.

The College of Engineering will host its third “Earth, Wind, Fire and Water” lecture event tomorrow (Thursday) from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. in Hoover 103 (please note the location change). The event is titled “Hydro-Power and Fish Passage in Oregon” and features Greg Apke of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.

This is the third of five presentations in the series, dedicated to renewable energy, sustainability, climate change and the environment. Future presentations include:

• Thursday, Nov. 6: “Wind Farms and Wind Energy Systems,” featuring Bruce Hamilton of Navigant, Lemmons 13
• Thursday, Nov. 13: “Ocean Wave Energy Systems,” featuring Chad Stillinger of George Fox University, Hoover 105

Questions? Contact Bob Harder at bharder@georgefox.edu.

The Department of Art and Design invites the university community to an opening reception for the show “Redemption of Dirt,” featuring the ceramic work of Brian O’Neill and Ron Linn.

Join us tomorrow (Thursday) for an artists’ talk at 4:10 p.m. in Hoover 105, followed by an opening reception from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in the Minthorne Gallery. The show will remain up through Nov. 26.

Christian C. Sahner, author of Among the Ruins: Syria Past and Present (Oxford University Press, 2014), will speak on campus at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow (Thursday) in Hoover 105 (please note the location change). The campus community is invited to attend at no charge.

Sahner’s lecture, “The End of Christianity in Syria?,” will explore the roots of Christianity in Syria and seek to place the current predicament in historical perspective. The William Penn Honors Program is sponsoring the event, and a reception for prospective students interested in the honors program will follow. In addition, a special “Visit Day for the Honors Program” is scheduled for Friday, Oct. 31. Please email honors@georgefox.edu if you would like more information or have any questions.

A graduate of Princeton University and the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar, Sahner is currently completing his doctorate at Princeton, focusing on relations between Muslims and Christians in the formative period after the Arab conquests.

Students for Life is hosting its last three meetings of the year in Hoover 102 at 8:30 p.m. on Thursdays (Oct. 30, Nov. 13 and Nov. 20). If you’ve be thinking of checking us out, now’s the time. We look forward to seeing you there!

Our final meeting, on Nov. 20, is actually a film showing offered for elective chapel credit. If you need one last chapel credit, this is a great opportunity for you! We’ll be showing Rape and Other Exceptions to understand how we can better respond to our friends in difficult circumstances.

As a follow-up to our active shooter training sessions conducted before school started, security encourages you to consider attending a Code4-sponsored seminar, “Front Desk Safety and Security,” on Monday, Dec. 15.

The event is scheduled at the Airport Holiday Inn and will teach you how to deal with dangerous situations, difficult people and emergencies. The cost is $99 if you register via the Code4 website (code4.org) and $109 if you register via phone at 800-622-9391. The course instructor is Captain Joe Puckett, who has spent 21 years in law enforcement and who has worked as a hostage/crisis negotiator.

As a reminder for any staff members planning to attend, you can apply to the Staff Development Committee to be considered for partial reimbursement for the seminar costs on a first-come, first-served basis until the professional development fund is depleted. Check the Staff Development website for details.

“A Motion of Love” is the theme for the university’s annual Quaker Focus Week, Nov. 3-6, on the Newberg campus. Quaker Focus allows the campus community an opportunity to explore its Quaker roots and heritage. Events for students, faculty and the community this year include:

Monday, Nov. 3
9 a.m. – “Quakers in Business, Science and Industry”
An open invitation to visit Paul Anderson’s History & Doctrine of Friends Class (Hoover 210)

Tuesday, Nov. 4
10:50 a.m. – “Doors, Judgment, Love”
University Chapel with Gregg Koskela, lead pastor, Newberg Friends Church (Bauman Auditorium)
9 p.m. – “Listening Together Within the Motion of Love”
Shalom with Mark Almquist (Hoover 105)

Wednesday, Nov. 5
9 a.m. – “Quakers, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Underground Railroad,” a Skype interview with Max Carter of Guilford College in Paul Anderson’s History & Doctrine of Friends Class (Hoover 210)
7 p.m. – “Point Me Home”
University Chapel with a dramatic performance by the University Players (Bauman Auditorium)

Thursday, Nov. 6
10:40 a.m. – Contemplative worship (Prayer Chapel)

“I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the Goodness of God …”
– John Woolman

Are you support staff with van certification? We need two drivers to transport those who cannot or do not wish to drive to and from the Fall Staff Conference next Wednesday, Nov 5.

Vans will leave the Stevens parking lot at 6:45 a.m. and at 7 a.m. and return approximately at 12:30 p.m. The conference will be held at Mountain Park Church, located at 40 McNary Parkway in Lake Oswego.

Please contact Christee Wise (cwise@georgefox.edu) if you are qualified and would be willing to drive a university van.

For students interested in working with spiritual and intercultural life as the global outreach intern for the remainder of the school year, there is a position open.

The description of this position is as follows: SpIL intern for global outreach and service partnerships serve to build bridges between George Fox students and cross-cultural opportunities to serve and learn alongside partnering organizations that model compassionate excellence in cross-cultural ministry and Christian community development.

This particular intern will accomplish this primarily through coordinating weekly cross-cultural outreach and service experiences, events to build our global outreach partnerships, the annual “Global Ministries Fair,” conference participation, other global outreach endeavors of the “SpIL” ministry house, as well as entering into mentoring relationships with the SpIL pastoral staff.

This SpIL intern will serve primarily to build and support volunteer teams, coordinate weekly urban outreach (i.e. Bridgetown Ministries, Nightstrike and Salem partnership, etc.), build deeper collaboration with Word Made Flesh, Open Arms International and Northwest Yearly Meeting Global Ministries, and coordinate our participation in Urbana and/or other global ministry conferences, as well as administrative tasks of the Office of Spiritual Life.

If you are interested in this position, please fill out this application by Wednesday, Nov. 5.

Faculty, please encourage students that you think would be interested to apply.

Email Mikayla Greenwell (mgreenwell12@georgefox.edu) with any questions you may have.

This Wednesday, Oct. 29, from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. in the IDEA center, will be a LinkedIn Networking event. Come learn how to build your LinkedIn profile during this one hour weekly workshop.

Questions? Please contact Jaclyn Simmons at jsimmons12@georgefox.edu.

The International Justice Mission club invites you to join us for a meeting tonight (Tuesday) from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the International Center-Cultural House. The club raises awareness for human trafficking issues and promotes justice for the oppressed. We welcome new members!

Questions? Please contact Annelise Koeth at akoeth11@georgefox.edu.

Do you need to visit the Academic Resource Center (ARC)? We currently have appointment times available, but don’t wait too long to schedule an appointment.

The ARC is in the Murdock Learning Resource Center and is open Monday through Thursday, from 1 to 10 p.m. and Friday, from 12 to 4 p.m.

For more information and to schedule appointments, see the ARC website at arc.georgefox.edu or contact us through email at the_arc@georgefox.edu or by phone at 503-554-2327.

Morning chapel will be on Tuesday (today), at 10:50 a.m. in the Bauman Auditorium.Come hear from Dr. Todd Hall in his talk, titled “The Connected Life”; he will share practical insights that will help you heal your disconnection and develop deep and meaningful connections with God and others. Dr. Todd Hall is a licensed psychologist, professor of psychology at Biola University and a certified MCORE coach. Learn more about his work at drtoddhall.com. Chapel Credit is available.

Shalom will be on Tuesday (today), at 9 p.m. in the Cap and Gown Room. Dr. Todd Hall will also be speaking at Shalom. Chapel elective credit is available.

Evening chapel will be on Wednesday, Oct. 29, at 7 p.m. in the Bauman Auditorium. Jamie Johnson will continue our “Unfolding Life” series. He will preach from Matthew 8 on the cost of following Jesus. Chapel credit is available.

Greenroom will be this Thursday, Oct. 30, at 9:30 p.m. in the Foxhole.

For more information visit spirituallife.georgefox.edu or email spirituallife@georgefox.edu.

The Fall Staff Conference is next Wednesday, Nov. 5, and we are looking forward to an exciting day with all support staff! Please complete this registration form and select your break-out session if you haven’t done so already. The theme of this year’s conference is  “Sowing, Watering, Reaping.”

The conference is from 8 to 11:30 a.m., with breakfast beginning at 7:30 a.m. for early risers. Our keynote speaker is Deb Mumm-Hill, director of the university’s IDEA Center. The conference will be at Mountain Park Church, 40 McNary Parkway, in Lake Oswego. Please note: Due to allergies, please do not wear perfume or cologne at this event.

Questions? Contact Christee Wise at cwise@georgefox.edu.