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Jamie Johnson is dean for spiritual life and university pastor. A George Fox graduate, he has studied church history (MA) and Christian education (PhD) and hungers to learn more about what it means for individuals and communities to follow Jesus in every aspect of life.

He is married to Erin, director of the George Fox social work program, and together they parent three wonderful children. In his spare time, Jamie enjoys leading worship, running, reading and coaching soccer teams. He is a huge fan of the Portland Timbers and the Boston Red Sox.

Debrianna Cabitac-Debolt serves as university pastor for chapel and creative liturgies. She joined the George Fox community in 2023, arriving from Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee, where she was a resident director the previous year. She previously served at Biola University in La Mirada, California, where she was the coordinator of student wellness and an administrative assistant in the Learning Center (2021-2022).

Debrianna also ran her own business, Olive Home, from 2020 to 2022, offering three-month and six-month mentorships teaching artists how to foster a healthy inner life and execute their creative dreams. She is also a musician, releasing her first full-length album, Seek and Behold, in 2017, and following it with an EP, In My Night, in 2022. She is passionate about creativity, holistic health, and helping others discover their life in Christ.

She and her husband, Noah, live in McMinnville and enjoy hiking, reading, cooking, baking, playing disc golf, and cheering on their favorite football team, the Detroit Lions.

Cyndi Murillo serves as university pastor for spiritual formation programs. Prior to her arrival at George Fox in 2022, she served as the director of spiritual life and campus pastor at Multnomah University in Portland, where she coordinated the chapel program, provided pastoral care to students, and supervised spiritual life student leaders, among other duties.

Previously, Cyndi worked as assistant director of student programming at Vanguard University in Costa Mesa, California (2016-2020) and served as a diversity and inclusion coordinator during her seven years at Vanguard. She lives in Hillsboro with her husband Jonathon and their daughter, Bella Grace. Cyndi enjoys exploring Portland and trying all the delicious food the city has to offer.

Since 1999, Rusty St. Cyr has been working with students as a pastor, mentor, and counselor — from Scotland to Missouri to Santa Cruz, and for the last 16+ years, here at GFU. He serves as University Pastor for Service & Soul Care, a title that reflects the conviction that spiritual formation, mental health, and serving others are inseparable.

Rusty holds a Bachelors degree in Biblical Studies and Master's degrees in Teaching, Spiritual Formation, and Clinical Mental Health Counseling. As a Counselor associate and Spiritual Director, he brings both lenses into every environment — chapels, classes, counseling sessions, Serve Day, and service-learning locally and abroad.

Off campus, he can be found drumming, hiking, paddling, coaching youth sports, keeping active in the gym, on his yoga mat or outside in God's creation — often with the family pup, Ollie, nearby. At the center of it all is "Team St. Cyr": children Ella, Matea, and Jack, and Stephanie, his "ride or die" for 26+ years.