When the Goshen College students arrived in Lima and emerged from the airport about 12:30 a.m. Thursday, they were greeted with exceedingly rare summertime raindrops. It almost never rains in Lima, where the average yearly rainfall is less than 2...
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Day One in Peru: Orientation
Students meet their host families
Goshen students met their Lima host families Friday after a full day of orientation, an enjoyable tour of downtown and two nights in the Miraflores House (a hostel). The students prepared for the important meetings by reviewing information about their...
Merry Lea to host “Witness through Storytelling,” a women’s spirituality retreat
Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center of Goshen College will host its second women's spirituality retreat, “Witness through Storytelling,” from Friday, Jan. 31 to Saturday, Feb. 1. The retreat will begin at 7:30 p.m. on Friday evening and end mid-afternoon on…
“Binding” art exhibit will showcase sculpture, textile and more
An exhibit featuring the artwork of Jan Dean and Elfa Jónsdóttir will be on display in Goshen College’s Hershberger Art Gallery from Jan. 12 through March 2, 2014.
Chapel: “Sowing Compassion Side by Side” – Gwen Gustafson-Zook & Worship Assistants
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Anthony Brown to bring the story of Paul Robeson to life at Goshen College
Musician, peace activist and 1971 Goshen College graduate Anthony Brown will kick off the college’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration events with a performance centered around the life of Paul Robeson on Sunday, Jan. 19 at 7 p.m.…
Thanks to God: A safe arrival in Peru
They are here – tired, excited and somewhat overwhelmed. United Airlines Flight 1095 arrived safely and early from Newark, N.J.; it touched down at Jorge Chávez International Airport in Lima at 10:02 p.m. Wednesday night (Jan. 8). The students were...
Preparing for new sons and daughters
Host parents for the Peru Study-Service Term students met Monday night with SST Co-Directors Richard R. Aguirre and Judy Weaver and SST Lima Study Coordinator Celia Vasquez. The meeting at the Anglican Cathedral of the Good Shepherd (Buen Pastor) was...
Women’s vocal ensemble to bring harmonies to Goshen College
Moira Smiley & VOCO, a women’s vocal ensemble, will present their diverse repertoire ranging from American folksong to Eastern European music on Friday, Jan. 17. The visiting artist concert will take place at 7:30 pm in Sauder Concert Hall in…
Author, quilter to speak at Goshen College
Author, quiltmaker and Goshen College graduate Janneken Smucker will be on campus on Jan. 13 and 14 to speak about her new book, “Amish Quilts: Crafting an American Icon,” which explores how Amish quilts evolved from practical bed linens to…
The Bulletin – Fall 2013
Expanding the Sound Pool
Three Kings Day in the City of Kings
Welcome to the Peru Study-Service Term blog for Spring 2014! Goshen College students are scheduled to arrive late Wednesday (Jan. 8), which is when the spring program officially will begin. We (co-leaders Richard R. Aguirre and Judy Weaver) have been...
Fall 2013 Math Meeting
Daniel Fecher, Jon Kaasa, and Matt Chen heard about the Higgs Boson and other exciting mathematical topics.
Annual MLK Study Day at Goshen College will examine diversity, then and now
Goshen College students, faculty and community members will focus on the life of Martin Luther King Jr. and explore diversity issues of the past and present during the MLK Day celebration events on Jan. 19-20. The community is welcomed to...
January 2014 events at Goshen College
January 2014 events include a concert by the King's Singers and the Martin Luther King Jr. Study Day events.
Students connect in new campus-wide mentoring program
Eva Lapp and Brynn Godshall have a lot in common: they both sing in the Women’s World Music Choir at Goshen College, love ice cream and share a passion for peace studies. But Lapp, a junior from Goshen, and Godshall,…
Summit challenges students to create sustainable campuses
During a chilly November weekend, 45 student leaders from eight colleges and universities gathered for a sustainability summit at Goshen College’s Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center. The goal of the sustainability summit was to bring students from area institutions together…
New book examines the history of Mennonite youth ministry
A book chronicling the past 120 years of youth ministry in the Mennonite church hit the shelves this month. Bob Yoder, assistant professor of youth ministry and campus pastor at Goshen College, served as editor of the book, which is…
Laughter, llamas and loving families: Final reflections by the Fall 2013-2014 unit
The seven students who made up the Peru Study-Service Term unit for Fall 2013-2014 hailed from Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky and Oregon. Their majors included biochemistry, communication, mathematics, nursing, physics, sociology and Spanish and they had a wide range...
Accounting program provides path to career
Accounting majors benefit from the unique feature in the accounting program, a full-semester, paid internship. This capstone experience provides students with a clear path to a job after graduation.
The numbers don’t lie: For Goshen College accounting students, experience means success
Three of the top 10 accounting firms in the country recruit students directly from Goshen College, as do regional and local firms. It helps that the college has one of the only regional accounting programs with a required, paid internship,…
Goshen’s AlgaeTown project featured in Wired Magazine and Biofuels International
The AlgaeTown research project has garnered national and international attention this month from both Wired Magazine and Biofuels International. AlgaeTown, a joint undertaking of Goshen College and Formco, Inc. of Elkhart, Ind., is a project with a mission to find…
Electronics/Robotics show
Date: Dec. 10, 2013 Photographer: Brian Yoder Schlabach The biannual Goshen College electronics/robotics show featured 10 projects created by 28 students for their electronics/robotics course. This year’s show included a 3-D printer, a 3-D scanner, a radio-controlled quadrotor helicopter with...
Art of recycling: Students explore earth care in art exhibit
The Goshen College Art Department and art club are co-sponsoring a themed student art exhibit in the Harold and Wilma Good Library basement gallery at Goshen College. The exhibit, based on the theme “recycled,” opened on Nov. 28 and will…
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