Bruins Work at The Children's Course on Serve Day

GLADSTONE, Ore. - As a part of George Fox University's annual "Serve Day", the Bruin men's and women's golf teams spent the day (Wednesday, Sept. 9) working at The Children's Course in Gladstone, Ore. The Children's Course is a part of The First Tee project, which is geared toward teaching life skills and values to children through a golfing atmosphere. Over 3,000 children participate in programs at the Children's Course and over 12,000 lessons are given each year.

The GFU student-athletes and their coaches contributed to such work projects as painting parts of the main clubhouse and the learning center, cleaning tables and chairs, sanding tee boxes, and separating buckets of golf balls donated from many sources. They also conducted a golf clinic for a group of home-schooled children who came to the course for a couple of hours.

George Fox's "Serve Day" is an annual event the second Wednesday of each September in which the entire Newberg campus shuts down for the day and all faculty, staff, and students disperse throughout the community and region for service projects. Some 1,500 volunteers were organized into groups which visited 72 sites and 50 individual homes to serve. In its 11 years, nearly 12,000 students and employees have volunteered in excess of 120,000 hours for Serve Day projects, and more than 200 organizations or churches have been assisted.