Yesterday we celebrated Columbus day, the beginning to the great nation we know today as America. Our founding fathers were determined to make a better life for themselves, their peers, and for generations of people after them.

Today our duty Is to capture that spirit and drive. To ask the questions of what we can do to capitalize on opportunity for ourselves, others, and if we think big, generations.

At our intro meeting Friday, I mentioned that we now have office hours in La Sierra SIFE HQ. The hours are from 9-10am and from 5-6pm M-Th and 9-10am on Fridays in addition to all other team meetings. We are currently looking to re-design and arrange our HQ to make it more of an interactive, work and fun inspiring space. Stop by, check it out, and share your ideas. We are also looking for an office manager, a person who will keep track of what goes on in the room as well as in the team (when meetings are, making sure there are refreshments stocked, greet mentors,  talk to potential members, etc.)

I attended an event for a charity organization called Giving Children Hope on Sunday evening and a few executives expressed interest in partnering with La Sierra SIFE in some local projects.Their organization does things like sending medical supplies overseas to people in need. They also do some local projects that are interesting such as; “We’ve Got Your Back” project. I will elaborate more at our first Think Tank. This connection was thanks to our faculty fellow Marvin Payne.

Steve Adams, running for re-election to city council, says he would be happy to connect us with other city council members as well as the Economic Development Association of Riverside. This is great because these are good contacts that know about the needs of the people in our county.

There are a more interesting opportunities lining up for our team, it will be matter of faith, pursuit, and hard work that get us places this year. I am excited to have you all as a part of the experience.

We have a small team working to plan our first social event, we are hoping to have a student photographer lined up by meeting time on Friday, we hope to have 2 think tank facilitators by Friday, I will be interviewing two candidates for the positions of Director of Member Development as well as Director of Project Development.

We will be meeting at 12:30 pm on Friday to begin brainstorming on ways assess needs within categories. We hope that from this initial session we can create clear action items for the week to begin moving in a suitable direction. We will have light appetizers available and plan to take polaroid snapshots to post on the walls of HQ. Be sure to let us know if you can make it to this meeting by visiting our OrgSync event page here.

I wish you all an eventful week.

Sincerely,

Ethan Weber

(832) 830-4397

Mweb681@lasierra.edu