Multnomah University - Ambassador Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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58 M55 TIIHHE Ili fllilm Winter brought the unique challenge of trying not to change with the weather. We wanted God-not the weather-to change us. The leaves dropped off the trees, it got colder, it rained more. Things on the exterior looked pretty bleak. But we learned that things on the interior could light up if we let them. God in His infinite timing gave us all kinds of vacations to break up the bleakness-basketball, Thanksgiving, Christmas, even the Missionary Conference and Valentines Banquet-all provided a change of pace. But He also came through on all those in-between times when life seemed pretty or- dinary and routine. One vacation was basketball season. Basketball-that dependable social activity, a free place to take a date, the one place at Multnomah where we could scream our heads off and nobody would give us minutes, or look at us askance and start praying for the Lord to work the needed changes. Thanksgiving vacation was a needed time to reflect on all our blessings. Christmas break was a special time of joy and reunion for some and a real time of testing for others. In any case, it was a chance to go back home and share the changes that had taken place in our lives with our parents, our youth group, or perhaps an old friend who had yet to accept the Lord. It was a testing ground to see if we could maintain a godly life- style without the assistance of the Multnomah context. January brought a fresh new semester. Grades were a good thermometer to let us know if we ought to apply pressure, let-up, or just maintain in the studies. January, the time to finally get around to asking the girl out that you'd been eyeing all fall, or fulfill that much needed goal to see more of Portland on the weekends. Another vacation was the missionary conference. It brought with it a mixture of feeling-wonder, excitement, boredom, pressure, urgency, inadequacy, a burden for the lost. Everything from, Wow, I can't wait to get out on the field to Lord, how can you ever use ME? One of the neatest vacations was the Valentines Banquet!! Whether one attended with a friend or a sweetheart, Love was the Key to our thinking. Like the conference, the banquet brought a flood of mixed feelings, particularly during the month previous to the big night. The publicity was widespread. We experienced nervous frustration, anticipa- tion, joy, disappointment, new relationships, and just plain heartache. Once again Mult- nomah tried to promote an attitude of casual friendship and dating with an absence of trauma. Admittedly we had a lot of vacations and special highlights, but what about those in- between times? This is where the real test comes , Dean Pamela Reeve said one day in chapel. Not when everything is going wrong. It's natural to turn to God then. But do we enjoy His fellowship and obey Him when everything is just going? Those in-between times brought a warmth as we got together with a friend - sharing verses, ambitions, thoughts, feelings. Those in-between times brought frustration as we stared out the window at the rain, wishing we had time to get depressed. Those in-between times brought the temptation to just bag it, to up and quit, forget the whole thing and escape the pressure. But we didn't. We endured and we grew as a result of it. Patience brought her perfect work and God changed us - brought us that much closer to conformity with the beautiful Man of all Seasons-Jesus Christ. Here are some of the events that changed our lives in the winter of 1975-76: by Vickie Webb