PIU Student Orientation 2010

With almost all the students on campus, and most of them having gone through the registration line we began orientation on Monday morning. The morning began with a one-hour assembly to introduce the faculty, staff and student leadership team to the students. Last year's theme was the Super Bowl. This year, instead of jerseys, we wore our island shirts and outfits and the theme was "catch the wave," in keeping with our new PIU wave logo. After the introductions I got to talk to the students about the core values, mission and opportunities that we have at PIU. It was hard to cram all that into a 12 minute sermon. From Nehemiah, my point was that success would happen as we looked to the past to learn from mistakes and repent of sin looking to God's faithful acts, then look to the future as we put our trust in God's promise of restoring His image in us and then commit ourselves in the present to acting in the power of the Spirit to grow together into what He has called us to be. After the message the students broke up into groups to hear from each department of the school.

Mary Lou Carruthers, IT Director, talked to the students about study center rules, how to access the school wifi and administered the orientation assessment survey. 

Director of Libraries, Lisa Collins, explained all the wonders and opportunities available in the PIU library.

Here the women of the Rollex dorm (all 4 dorms at PIU have names ending in "ex." The men's dorms are the Mannex and Cannex and the women's dorms are the Rollex and the Bannex.) listen to VP of Student Life, Rob Watt, explain how dorm life works. He showed them how "washing each others feet as Jesus did" might mean cleaning ovens and floors and that if they did it little by little, they might only need to "wash the feet and not the whole body."

Steve Stinnette, VP of Advancement, introduced the PIU long term plan to the students, explaining to them what we have planned for development of the school and how the generous donations of people who support the school, and missions that support the school, make it possible for them to afford education at PIU.

 Many of the students "signed in" on the white board

Meluat took some time in the afternoon to do a little skateboarding. 

In the evening there was a dinner for the whole PIU family. There were some songs, skits and the VOM (plus one VOI member) guys performed a stick dance.