Each semester, the Office of Spiritual Life organizes a “Seek Week,” encouraging and instructing students about how to draw closer to God. This semester the theme of the week was “Holy” and it took place Feb. 20-24. On Monday, the week began with Chapel services led by Albert Tate, pastor of Fellowship Monrovia church in [...]
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Students prepare for urban ministry
The goal of the Office of Spiritual Life’s “Urban Excursion” is to “take it further.” Part of California Baptist University’s Compassion Ministries, “Urban Excursion” is a ministry program that takes students into major urban centers in and outside of California, and partners them with existing ministries to help serve the residents of those areas. Urban [...]
Interesting Person: Adam Cook
Your title is Logistics Coordinator here in the Office of Mobilization, so what exactly is it that you do? I coordinate logistics, so a lot of my responsibility falls in the spring semester: purchasing airline tickets, insurance, making sure shuttles come to pick people up, so if a shuttle doesn’t come you can get mad [...]
Chapel rule clarification: Cell phones now allowed in chapel on one condition
Students can now bring smart phones, tablets and laptops to chapel due to an unofficial change in the Office of Spiritual Life’s electronics policy. In the past, students that used electronic devices during chapel were targeted with a laser pointer and later received an e-mail notifying them that they would not receive chapel credit. Laser [...]
Chapel changes to accomodate
With additional chapel services and additional venues due to the growing student population at California Baptist University, the Office of Spiritual Life decided to implement yet another change to our chapel experience. We now have not one, but two worship bands comprised of both new and familiar faces. Chapel services will now take place on [...]
OSL energizes on-campus ministries
A new year marks a new start for the Office of Spiritual Life. At the beginning of each school year, OSL hosts an event that is meant to highlight the different opportunities in ministry that they offer. Taylor Fagg, Graduate Assistant for the Office of Spiritual Life coordinated this year’s event dubbed, “Cirque Du OSL.” [...]
New students to ‘retreat’ on campus
What does a record-breaking incoming freshman class mean? No new student retreat in the mountains this year. Instead of making the annual trek to Forest Home, a Christian camping facility located in the San Bernadino Mountains, an estimate of 1400 new students, Joe Adcock said, will “retreat” on campus. The on-campus retreat will take place [...]
Java and Jesus
On Tuesday, Aug. 31, California Baptist University’s Campus Activities Board (CAB) hosted its first Coffeehouse event of the 2010-2011 school year. Stamps Courtyard was full of new and returning students who seemed eager to receive information on how to get involved in the various student ministries. Booths were stationed throughout the courtyard as well as [...]
Helping ministry close to home
California Baptist University’s Office of Spiritual Life offers students the opportunity to turn a weekend into a time of service through Urban Excursion. “It provides opportunity for students to serve in ministry in an urban setting and gives exposure to a variety of ministries taking place,” Brett Vowell, director of chapel and compassion ministries, said. [...]
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Jesus Loves the Little Children of the World
The holidays are a time for giving but for college students it seems hard enough to get gifts for your family, let alone find a way to give to the needy. Although it is difficult, the task is not impossible. On any budget and with any time constraints, there are still ways to make a [...]
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