Just minutes ago, 10 Cambodia SSTers left for Goshen after a final group meal and a full group photo. Eight SSTers stayed behind for an overnight at a guesthouse and then some free-range traveling in Thailand, beginning tomorrow morning. Cambodia...
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Convocation: Best Student Speeches from Spring Semester
NOTE: Change from printed schedule. Students speakers will be Jake Daniel Smucker – “A Call for More Co-Ed Housing”Mia Engle – “Proxemics”Hannah Sauder – “Purpose”Jon Kaasa – “First Win”Cabe Sawin – “The Dirty Cuban” Click for audio file
Inherited Quilts, 2013
A wide variety of vintage and antique quilts, mostly Mennonite and Amish, that have been inherited from friends and relatives by members of the group Mennonite Women, who meet monthly at College Mennonite Church, Goshen, to quilt and do other...
Senior Exhibit II – 2013
Reception: Sunday, April 7, 2:00-4:00 pm, Hershberger Gallery. Seniors Abbie Miller, Ben Adams, Daniel Buschert, Juan Carlos Diaz Quezada, and Sara Soto will present artwork in an exhibit that is the culmination of their studio work at Goshen College. ...
2013 MCM Results
Emily Fretz, Andy Clemens, and Daniel Fecher made "Brownies Beyond Compare."
Chapel: “Spirited Life: Science & Faith”
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Hope
Emma and Mandy are volunteering at two preschools and one after-school program in the rain forest city of Oxapampa. According to anecdotes from Peruvian teachers and school administrators, the nation’s education system is underfunded, with underpaid teachers, classrooms devoid of...
Featuring 2012 Social Work Graduate Nora Miller
Nora writes, “Work's going great right now. I'm still learning a lot but definitely have a much more solid grasp on everything. It's still weird to think I'm actually doing what I went to school for :).
Coffee
Jesse volunteers at a family-owned coffee farm called Fundo Almorique. Coffee is the second-most traded product in the world, second only to petroleum in its importance as an export. Hundreds of millions of people drink coffee each day, enjoying the...
Goshen College choirs celebrate world music with annual EARTHTONES concert
Singing music from multiple regions of the world, the Goshen Choirs will again explore the large palette of sounds available to the human voice in the ninth annual EARTHTONES choral concert on Saturday, April 13 at 7:30 p.m. in Goshen…
Exhibit to display inherited Mennonite and Amish quilts
The exhibit “Inherited Quilts” will be on display in the Goshen College Good Library Gallery from April 10 to July 12. An opening reception will be held in the Good Library on Sunday, April 7 from 3-5 p.m.
Native
Jacob and Joseph are volunteering for a nonprofit organization called Ecomundos in the native village of San Miguel de Marankiari. As the world becomes ever more modern and ever more globalized, indigenous people are pressured to acculturate, becoming like everyone...
Brett and Nate in Phnom Penh
Nate and Brett’s service assignment kept them right at home in Phnom Penh, living with their host families from the “Study” portion of SST and working with a “Get-Out-the-Vote” campaign. Cambodia’s national elections are slated for July 28. Prime Minister...
Science & Religion Conference
The Annual Goshen College Conference on Religion & Science is April 5-7th. The featured speaker is Dr. Gayle Woloschak who will be presenting - BECOMING HUMAN: WEAVING TOGETHER GENETICS & PERSONHOOD.
Role Models
Jieun and Phil are working with children in the rain forest city of San Ramon. This small urban area is home to hundreds of impoverished families hampered by absentee fathers, alcohol addiction and an inability to make ends meet due...
Trade
Alex is volunteering at Chanchamayo Highland Products in the Selva Central (Central Rain Forest) of Peru. Societies have always traded the goods they have in abundance for the goods that are scarce or otherwise unavailable to them. In the developing...
Land
Andrew and Oscar are volunteering at Fe y Alegria (Faith and Happiness) School in Tarma. The school serves children living in extreme poverty. It was founded several years ago with help from the Jesuit order of the Catholic Church. Since...
Maryn and Carina in Sbov
This week the Graber Millers visited Carina and Maryn in Sbov, a Khmer Muslim village a few minutes from Kep on the southern coast. Given the beauty of the area, the Graber Millers stayed a couple of extra days in...
April 2013 events at Goshen College
April 2013 events at Goshen College
Goshen College’s annual Conference on Religion and Science to feature radiation oncology professor
Goshen College’s 13th annual Conference on Science and Religion will be held April 5-7 and will feature speaker Gayle E. Woloschak, a professor of radiation oncology, radiology and cell and molecular biology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. The…
Spring mainstage play ‘The Diviners’ focuses on water during the Depression
The Goshen College Theater Department will present Jim Leonard, Jr.’s award-winning play “The Diviners” for the spring mainstage production.
Professor Fashun to perform percussion recital April 6
Goshen College Associate Professor of Music Christopher Fashun will present a Faculty Recital Series percussion recital in the Music Center’s Rieth Recital Hall on Saturday, April 6, 2013 at 4 p.m.
English
Isaac and Kolton are volunteering in the classroom. They, along with the rest of us, entered the service portion of the Peru Study Service Term with open eyes and open hearts. We often ask our Peruvians friends and acquaintances, “How...
Merry Lea to offer spring break frog hikes
Nature lovers of all ages are invited to Merry Lea’s Rieth Village site Thursday, April 4 and Friday, April 5 from 1-3 p.m. for early spring excursions focused on frogs.
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