The new Fresno Pacific University centers in Visalia and Bakersfield expand services to adult students and employers and reinforce the university's longstanding commitment to quality education and ethical leadership.
 

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Pacific is about communication and connections. Meaning how we answer two questions: What’s going on at FPU? and What does it mean to you, the reader?

When you remove Pacific from your mail box three times a year you can read now, read later or recycle immediately. We whose names grace the masthead on the previous page warmly thank each of you who choose solution one or two.

Watch the fall commencement

The graduates, many fresh from balancing work, family and higher education, were familiar with the speaker's subject: adversity. What they may not have expected was his contention that it's to be rejoiced in rather than feared.

 A new season to reflect on the Idea

A happy adoption

I didn’t grow up Mennonite. Following a great tradition of evangelism, I married in. Well, sort of. My wife isn’t ethnic Mennonite, but she’s gone to Mennonite schools and churches since childhood. She doesn’t quilt, but she can make zwieback.

Given this, at the Mennonite college I worked for back East I called myself the adopted kid.

Graduation is a milestone, not a finish line. "I want to challenge you that while you are done with this stage, in a very real sense you are never finished," Rod Reed, campus pastor and dean of spiritual formation, told graduates during commencement May 3.

Reaching new heights

Caring for all the gifts of God

Remember the paperless office?

Never happened, as the top of my desk demonstrates. Paper is here to stay, as much in the Internet age as it was when Gutenberg set his first page of type and invented mass communication.

Paper comes from trees, a natural resource. Trees, water, air and all what we call “natural resources” come from God, and should be treasured as well as used. Maybe we should call them “natural treasures.”

Undergraduate alumni and a current graduate student brought students a progress report on life beyond graduation February 8, 2008.

The Fresno Pacific University School of Business hosted Sheila Kamps, Martin Acree and Susana Garcia during College Hour. Acree and Kamps are business grads now involved in professions. Garcia is pursuing a career while working on her master’s degree.
 

Enriching experience

Many gifts, a single goal

Ours is a world of specialists. Where once there was the general practitioner, there is today the internist, the OB-GYN, the pediatrician, the geriatrician and the ear, nose and throat doctor. And if anything is seriously wrong with you, the list grows longer.

Shaping the world through Christian education

FACE TO FACE still has its place

I WAS IN A MEETING YESTERDAY.

Nothing new there. In universities meetings are the culture. For some, meetings—their planning, leading and directing—are the very air they breathe.

The life of the working poor comes to the stage at FPU presents "Nickel and Dimed" as its fall mainstage production.

"Nickel and Dimed" will be at 8:00 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, November 8-10 and 15-17, in Ashley Auditorium on the FPU campus, 1717 S. Chestnut Ave., Fresno, south of the intersection of Chestnut and Butler. Tickets are $8 for general admission and $5 for students and senior citizens. For more, call the Arts Office at 559-453-2267.