SIMPLY JESUS DROP BOX APPLICATION A DOSE OF FIBER
MARK HOLMES STUDENT CHAPEL INTERVIEW
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PHOTOS: gary hisaoka WORDS: mike sharpe
iPad Update!!! Michael Sharpe
The latest software update from Apple brings several new features that will let you do even more on your iPad. All you have to do is make sure you have iTunes on your computer, then connect your iPad to your computer and iTunes will do the rest. In no time you will be caught up with the rest of the iPad fanatics. This latest update is a must have, so make sure you download yours today!
Jasmine Pasion Have you ever wanted to move a document from your computer to your iPad with a click of a button? Well, we’ve got the solution for you. Dropbox is a great tool to assist you in sharing folders from one device to another. With just a click of the save button in your Dropbox folder, your computer, iPad and mobile devices are synced and your files are available anywhere you may need them. To download Dropbox, head to dropbox. com or go to the app store on your iPad and download it for free.
It was a little over a year ago when the new I.T. staff at NHCC installed campuswide WIFI and new cables through the walls and ceilings in an effort to bring the college up-to-date technologically. However, after handing out iPads to all the new students last fall, the on-campus network quickly became bogged down. Network crashes and disconnects became an everyday problem.
The average student on campus now has an iPad, a smart phone, and many have a laptop as well. All of these devices connect to the campus network and use available bandwidth. The connection from the campus to the outside world has been relying on old copper wiring that was installed over 20 years ago. The only way to upgrade NHCC to a faster network would be to install a new fiber-optic data line that could provide significant bandwidth improvements. This started out to be literally an uphill battle since Qwest, the local provider of fiber-optic internet, only went as far as 18th Ave at the bottom of Bailey Hill Road. It was also not on Qwest’s timeline to bring fiber up the hill until 2012 or later. So with a lot of prayer and negotiations between our I.T. team and representatives from our current provider, RIO Communications, we were able to convince Qwest to run the fiber early. While Qwest was busy tunneling up the hill through the rock, under driveways and sidewalks, our facilities and landscaping team worked overtime to dig a trench from the apartment buildings down to the edge of our property where Qwest planned to connect us to the fiber. When the fiber project is complete, around the second week of February, our internet bandwidth on campus will go from an average of 6.5 Mbps (megabits per second) to 15 Mbps, with the option to increase to 100 Mbps any time we need the extra bandwidth. Besides the speed increase, the reliability increases as well. With fiber there is almost no downtime. We look forward to getting this needed dose of fiber into our lives. It might just be what the doctor ordered!
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BY: Laura Adams
This month, New Hope Christian College students will travel to Hawaii to participate in the Simply Jesus Conference. Simply Jesus is New Hope Oahu’s annual conference formerly known as Doing Church as a Team (DCAT). President Wayne Cordeiro and Francis Chan, author of the popular Christian book Crazy Love, are the plenary speakers. Larry Powers, director of Theology, and Gary Matsdorf, executive director, will be teaching a workshop. “The theme of ‘Simply Jesus’ is all about ratcheting back to the Lord,“ said Matsdorf. “As we strive to extend our ministries and reach the world for Christ we need to get back to the roots of our faith.” In addition to attending the conference the students will read and write reports two books by Cordeiro, Simply Jesus and Doing Church as a Team. “Live like your life depended on Jesus. It’s time to turn back to the cross.”
WORDS: ZACH OROSCO PHOTO: MICHAEL WILLIAMSON
You may have seen him on the Cordeiro Court during games. You may have seen him in classes, greeting people with a friendly smile. His name....Dominique Watson! A transfer student from Lane Community College, he came this year to play for the New Hope Christian College basketball team. Through the efforts of basketball coach Jim DeGroot, Watson was contacted by NHCC’s athletic department during this past summer to play for the team. However, Watson did not come to play Basketball, but to be transformed. “God opened my eyes and changed me a lot,” said Watson, who just recently was reinstated to the team after miraculously completing an impossible amount of academic requirements. Watson was raised in the Church, growing up listening to his uncle’s sermons and participating in the choir. But on the other side of things, was a heavy influence of gangs and drugs pulling on Watson’s life. One day while spending time at his cousins house, Watson describes how he watched his cousin get gunned down in front of him when he answered the door. After that Watson realized this was not the life for him and began looking for a way out. Before coming to NHCC, Watson felt God’s calling to give his life back to God and follow God’s plan for his life. After the events of meeting his fiance, the birth of his new daughter, and meeting DeGroot, it was, “my life changer for me,” he said. “Coach DeGroot has been such an influence and a mentor to me,” says Watson. Through learning the important values of life through playing basketball and taking classes at NHCC, Watson will be able to fulfill God’s plan for his own life. Watson said, “I felt God’s calling for my life has always been to be a teacher or youth pastor.” A transformed life indeed.
N H C C D E AC O N S W E LC O M E WORDS: LAURA ADAMS
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PHOTOS: GARY HISAOKA, RYAN BLUEBAUGH
Mark Holmes, the new volunteer assistant coach for Deacon Basketball! Mr. Holmes, a local Nike Representative, brings a lot to the table in terms of sports experience and coaching. In addition to playing college basketball at Lin Benton Community College, and contributing as a player on the back to back 1998-1999 National Championship teams at Northwest Christian University, Holmes spent the past ten years working with student athletes at Crow High School and has coached several AAU teams. The Deacons are enjoying this experience and putting it to good use as Holmes contributes to the team with insights and game-planning strategies. But Holmes is interested in more than just seeing the Deacons become a great basketball team: “I love to be around the guys and help them grow, as players and as people. Basketball can be a great tool to help strengthen young men and women in their Christian walk.” Holmes also acknowledges all of the great things happening here at NHCC as an institution. “I am just happy to be involved,” he says. And we’re happy to have him. With the deacons above .500 and picking up momentum in the second half of the season, we’re all looking forward to a great finish, and continued success in the program. Not only because of the hard work and dedication of all the talented players, but also because of the great coaches who pour their hearts into the team.
Ashley Franks
STUDENT-LED CHAPELS WRITER: KRISTINA GOECKER PHOTO: GARY HISAOKA
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he most difficult thing is getting everyone together and organized and on the same page! I don’t know what I would do without my fractal leaders, I couldn’t do it without them! They communicate with all of the people in their specific group. That is the most difficult thing because there are so many people in the teams all with completely different schedules. We have to have rehearsals, meetings, and debriefings so it’s hard to make sure that everyone knows what is going on and to get everyone there at rehearsal. Communication is so important and it’s something that all of us are working on. The best thing is seeing the chapel come together. Even through all of the chaos and craziness of rehearsals and communication lapses, seeing the chapel come together smoothly is absolutely the best feeling. Seeing everyone drop their pride, and giving the chapel to God is the best thing to see in people and all of our chapels have gone off so well. The response was absolutely incredible. It was the second part of the best thing because not only did we get the message we wanted across that God gave us, but people were touched and God showed up and changed hearts! I honestly think that the response is the most important thing. My chapel team could run things every week but if we aren’t listening to God and doing what he wants then he wont show up and we would not be getting the responses that we have been getting after our chapels. It has been so great to see and experience God working through us! I learned that I don’t matter and communication is key. Not everyone sees things the same way that you do. Giving things to God is the best feeling and has the best possible outcome. Standing up for yourself and what you believe in and standing up for what God has spoken to you is so crucial. Don’t let little things get to you. And overall, God is always in control no matter how hard that you try to be in control. More full-team practices and rehearsals would create more communication. The student chapels are so beneficial. Of course everyone having different schedules is a huge downfall but besides that, they are so beneficial because we are getting real experience working with people and still trying to minister at the same time. This is real stuff right here.
“Even through all of the chaos and craziness of rehearsals and communication lapses, seeing chapel come together smoothly is absolutely the best feeling!”
Everybody has one. It may be lying undiscovered or as yet undetected, but everybody has one. It could be broken, undeveloped or hidden beneath the rubble of past mistakes, but... Everybody has one. It might be imprisoned by faulty character or it could be paralyzed by others’ disdain. Still, everybody has one. Everybody has... A dream. This dream is a hope of what we can be for God. It was divinely installed at His moment of choice. Like the crystalline keys that revealed Clark Kent’s true identity as Superman, so too this God-deposited seed in each of us contains our assignment, our DNA, our potential and our ordained destiny. Hidden within lies the blueprint for becoming all that God planned for us. His dream placed intentionally inside you is like a seed. Within that seed’s protective shell is contained all the latent possibilities of producing an expansive orchard or a great forest. It holds the ability to feed a city. It can yield warmth in winter or it can produce houses for new families. But unless that potential is recognized and released, it remains richly unproductive, helplessly filled with hope and powerfully impotent. But once discovered, it becomes a honing device, an invisible guide that navigates us through the precarious passages of life. It tethers us to our destiny long before we arrive. Granted, much is bound to take place in the interim - but this honing device locks us in on God’s plan and pinpoints our destination. - An exerpt from Wayne Cordeiro’s The Dream Releasers