To learn more about the Fredrikson Chapel, on the Ottawa Ks campus  check out the 2021 chapel pamphlet.pdf

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Key Stakeholders...           

• OU’s alumni and currently enrolled students (residential, adult, ground, and/or online);

• Prospective students, their families, and their present and future employers;

• OU’s faculty, staff, and administration;

• Accrediting agencies;

• Members of OU’s Board of Trustees;

• The American Baptist Churches, USA;

• The Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma;

• Other affiliated organizations and individuals, including funding agencies, donors, and advisory boards; and

• Communities surrounding our campuses.

Click here to view The Fredrikson Center Staff

Click to view the new Mission Statement and Mission Task Force Final Recs 

        Our thanks to Roger Fredrikson for this, his final gift of time, leadership and ponder.

Subcommittee focuses...and representational programs/services:   

Campus Ministries (U-Wide)--Workshops and Classes, Concentrations and student events

Chaplaincy Services--Student and Staff Support (Barrier Reduction, Host Family and Scarcity Programming.)

Church Relations--Community partnerships/events, convocations (Adventures in Faith, Norwood-Jones & Hostetter-DeFries Convocations,  Braving Discipleship)

Faith and Church Vitality--Curricular components, Seminars(Certificates), Internships(Passport), Cohorts (Badges)

Fredrikson Center Hosted--Conferences (authors/SMEs), Service Learning, Ambassador, Opportunities for Practice

Fredrikson Programming--Grant, Missional, Triage and Denominational Outreach/Service programming  

Theology, Action, Understanding Institute-- Community/Civic Service, Faith-in-Action (advocational transcripts).

  Subcommittee Chairs

You may contact committee members directly by clicking on their name-links...

Blake (Jonathan) Ermis

My name is Jonathan “Blake” Ermis, I am a sophomore at Ottawa University Arizona where I am majoring in secondary education history. I am also on the OUAZ competitive bowling team. I grew up in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma where I attended high school and Tulsa Tech for business information management and graphic design. In my free time, I love to go scuba dive and take road trips to anywhere I can go. During my time at OUAZ, I have served as a student ambassador and on the activities board.”

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Ashan Jordan

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Christopher (Tia-Wah) Whitwell

Born and raised in Alaska, is a Yupi'k native Alaskan, a member of the Ottawa Tribe, and a second generational student of OU.  He(i) was previously a Chef in San Francisco for a corporate catering startup, managing a research and development kitchen, until the pandemic happened, changed the industry and the company was bought by Doordash. He(i) took that opportunity to utilize the tribal scholarship to attend Ottawa university. He (I) is a Psychology and Business Leadership Management majors, President of the Theatre Club, Vice President of the History Club, Treasurer/Historian of the OUAZ Student Government, Co-host of OUAZTV, Student Ambassador, Head Cook in the Hetrick Canteen, a City of Surprise Arts and Culture Advisory Commissioner, and a volunteer at the 'friends of the library'. Some of his (my) hobbies include hiking, camping, fishing, snowboarding, skateboarding, reading, acting, and anthropology.