Articles by Kathy Varis
Kathy Varis is a speaker, writer, personal coach and mentor, musician, youth drama guru, educator, a codirecting member of the FOCUS Leadership Team at Portland State University, and a long-time campus minister with Chi Alpha Campus Ministries. Kathy served 12 years as a lead instructor at Mt Hood Community College directing the Rockwood Lifelong Learning Center, helping establish the Mt Hood Literacy Coalition. She has lived with her husband and family in the Hawthorne district of southeast Portland since 1992.
Investigative Bible Study
Kathy with one of our dear international student friends at PSU
Yesterday, after working in the FOCUS office, I headed to the Student Union to meet a Kim (name changed),Korean married student to resume our weekly Bible study after a brief summer break. Last year, three of us had met together to study the book of [...]
Gideon at One Month Old
Gideon at 1 month
Gideon Arthur is officially one month old today! He came for a visit yesterday. We’ve been gone for ten days so I haven’t seen him in two weeks. When last I saw him, he was just barely opening his eyes to peek at the world, far more content to keep them closed, [...]
Middle School Drama Group Week 2
Before heading off to the second week of Middle School Drama Practice at church, I did some serious strategizing about how I was going to maintain the focus of the nine energetic 11-14 year olds. Last week, the boys and girls were trading verbal jabs and the boys informed me that the girls had cooties [...]
Musings from My Drama Adventure
I volunteered at my church to coach the middle school drama team to prepare them for Fine Arts Festival. Our church hasn’t participated much in Fine Arts over the years and really, I don’t know why. The church is loaded with talented kids. Over the years, I’ve coached a few times, mostly when my kids [...]
