Many hands helped make Tent City 3 feel at home on campus.
神圣的声音 带来节日欢乐
备受期待的年度音乐会, which returned to 西雅图’s Benaroya Hall this year, 11月26日，门票售罄. The evening featured more than 250 of SPU’s vocal and instrumental musicians, 包括室内歌手, 音乐会合唱, 福音唱诗班, 男人的唱诗班, 女子合唱团, 管弦乐合奏团, 交响乐团, 及敬拜艺术团, under the direction of SPU’s music 教师. In addition to sacred Advent music and sing-along Christmas carols, 该节目包括背诵J.R.R. Tolkien’s long-lost Christmas poem, “Noel,” discovered in 2016.
帐篷城3号返回校园
在11月, 西雅图 Pacific began hosting Tent City 3, 一个自我管理的无家可归者社区, 在学校待三个月. TC3, 由SHARE/WHEEL共同赞助, is a portable encampment for up to 100 men, 女性, 还有无家可归的儿童. SPU hosted TC3 in 2012 and 2015, and welcomed the community back until February 10. TC3 returns to the SPU campus every three years. 在他们逗留期间, 学生, 教师, 工作人员, and community members got to know and learned from our neighbors at TC3 by help with move-in and move-out, 还会招待客人, 进行研究, and coordinating gatherings such as game nights and holiday celebrations. In 2015, President Dan Martin launched SPU’s Committee on Homelessness with the goal of keeping the issue of homelessness in front of the University and greater community through learning activities, 研讨会, 以及TC3的持续参与.
Freshmen serve 西雅图 through CityQuest
9月23日, 431 西雅图 Pacific 学生 fanned out across 西雅图 and collectively provided more than 1,为这座城市工作了700个小时. Members of this volunteer army rolled up their sleeves and helped at 24 sites, 包括公园, 学校, 教堂, 食物银行. 每年迎新期间举行, CityQuest helps new 学生 engage the city of 西雅图 through community service. Organized by SPU’s 约翰·珀金斯中心 for Reconciliation, 领导力培训, 及社区发展, the effort familiarizes 学生 — many of whom are new to 西雅图 — with area nonprofits, 哪些被邀请成为主办网站. Freshman Samantha Kreeger was part of a team that weeded a church’s property, 清除入侵物种, 打扫教室. “我玩得很开心，”她说. “It taught me that even a little bit of help could make a huge difference in the community.”
Students and professors participate in state housing advocacy day
Eighteen 网易彩票下载 学生 and 教师 headed to the Washington state capital for Washington Low Income 住房 Alliance’s annual Advocacy Day in February. 倡导日, citizens from across the state come together to take part in meetings and speak with their representatives about addressing housing and homelessness needs in their districts and across the state. This year, lawmakers passed a package of seven bills focused on affordable housing and homelessness. Everyone who attended the lobbying day received a red scarf to signify their hope for justice in housing. These scarves were worn by 社会 workers, 学生, 教育工作者, 来自宗教团体的人, and those who have been or are currently without housing. 在首都的主校区, they meet with state legislators and their representatives to talk about the much-needed response to the sharp lack of affordable housing and its impact on people and communities in our state. Typically, over 600 attend each year, with nearly every single district in Washington represented.
Downtown Business Breakfast features 克里斯托夫
4月, 西雅图 Pacific presented the 21st annual Downtown Business Breakfast, 它聚集了将近1,000 business and community leaders to hear from acclaimed 纽约时报 专栏作家克里斯托夫. 克里斯托夫从他的新书中 A Path Appears: How an Individual Can Change the World. 被誉为“记者的记者”,” Kristof is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, 畅销书作家, and courageous advocate for human rights around the world. He has reported on the War in Darfur and China’s Tiananmen Square democracy movement, 在其他冲突中.
员工领导获得正义奖
Susan Okamoto Lane, dean of Multi-Ethnic and 健康 programs at 网易彩票下载, received the “Vision from the Mountaintop Award” during the annual Dr. 马丁·路德·金. Prayer Breakfast in 西雅图 on January 15. This annual award recognizes a community, 教育, and business leader from the 西雅图 area “who demonstrates leadership and contributes in the community or business world for the furtherance of justice, 和解, 和赋权.” In her more than 30 years at 西雅图 Pacific, Okamoto Lane has been a champion for 学生 from all ethnic backgrounds and leads efforts to build bridges through cross-cultural engagement across campus. In 2008, she became the founding director of 西雅图 Pacific’s 多民族的程序, 这支持了学术研究, 社会, and cultural adjustment and success of 学生 from diverse backgrounds.
SPU Jazz Ensemble performs live on radio program
The SPU Jazz Ensemble performed live (and online) on local public radio station KNKX (88.5 FM) in Nickerson Studios on April 19 for KNKX’s “School of Jazz” show. It was preceded by an SPU Music Department “Futures in Music” presentation with KNKX General Manager Joey Cohn and Jazz Host Abe Beeson talking about their careers in radio.