A semester full of learning, service and adventure closed with a three-day retreat at a beach named Kauai. We began with final project presentations featuring research done while on service. The topics included: Ají Peppers The Day of the Dead...
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Convocation: Best Oral Comm Speeches of the Semester
The best speeches of the semester from each fall Oral Communication class. Students who will speak:Abby Deaton, Abe Pauls, Nicholas Schwartz, Leanna Teodosio, and Gretchen Geyer. Click for audio file
Giving Thanks
How thankful we are! This morning ten students returned to Lima after spending six weeks volunteering in the mountains and rain forest. Tomorrow Joshua will return from Acopia and our group will be complete. The students are thankful for many...
Service in Acopia
Acopia, a town of several thousand inhabitants, sits between two lakes in the Andes mountains. At 3,715 meters (12,188 feet) above sea level, this is highest and most remote of the service locations this semester. We met Luis Delgado, founder...
Final days in Nanchong
Sunday found our students returning on two different buses from four service sites to Nanchong. On Monday we gathered to talk about some of our service experiences and to hear about each other’s projects. The variety of projects reflects the...
Celebrate Christmas with Goshen College during the eighth annual Festival of Carols
Goshen College will present its eighth annual musical celebration of Christmas, "A Festival of Carols," on Friday, Dec. 2 and Saturday, Dec. 3 at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, Dec. 4 at 4 p.m.
Convocation: Peru SST, summer 2011
The summer 2011 Peru SST unit will share some of what they learned and experienced. Click for audio file
Julia Spicher Kasdorf, Mennonite poet, visits Goshen in S.A. Lecture Series
Julia Spicher Kasdorf, poet and Goshen College alumnus, visited Goshen on Friday, September 16, as a stop on her book tour for her latest collection, Poetry in America.
Goshen College students to present art exhibit around theme of “North and South”
Goshen College students will focus on the theme "North & South" for the Fall Student Art Show, taking place from Nov. 28 to March 16 in the Good Library Basement Gallery.
Chapel: “Sing Unto the Lord a New Song” – Voices-n-Harmony choir
Chapel: “Sing Unto the Lord a New Song” – Voices-n-Harmony choir Click for audio file
Peter Fallon, Poet and Publisher, Speaks at Goshen College
On November 2nd and 3rd, 2011, Irish poet and publisher Peter Fallon visited Goshen College. Fallon gave a public poetry reading, interacted with students, and spoke in a literature class.
Goshen Campus Slammed: Student Poetry at the College
Friday, October 28, 2011, marked the third year of the GC poetry slam...all in all, the event was an undeniable success, for both students and departments alike
Goshen College’s Lavender Jazz to take Sauder Hall stage for fall concert
Lavender Jazz, Goshen College's big band, will present a fall concert on Saturday, Nov. 19
Service in the Rain Forest
Four students are serving in the Selva Central, the central section of the rain forest that lies in the eastern foothills of the Andes. Elevations here range from 2,000 to 3,000 feet, with rolling hills and luscious green vegetation. Ashley...
Online Advent devotions with Goshen College student and faculty voices begin Nov. 21 at blog.goshen.edu/devotions
As churches and individual Christians around the world prepare to celebrate Christ's birth, Goshen College is again offering an online spiritual resource to help believers make time and space in their hearts and minds to welcome Advent and celebrate Christmas.
Chapel: “Crazy-Dogging, Foot-Washing, Servant Leading” – President Jim Brenneman
Join us as President Brenneman shares reflections from John 13:1-17 on themes of service. Click for audio file
Xichong site visit
Monday Jo-Ann and Joe caught a bus for Xichong—half the hour-long ride was spent getting out of Nanchong, the rest brought us to the edge of this small, prosperous-looking town. Our trio of students here seems to be enjoying the...
Service in Ayacucho
Just say, “Yes”! This could be the motto for the three students serving in Ayacucho this term. Saying yes when asked to try something new has opened doors for each student and addressed real needs for the people they work...
Sun showers will pour from Goshen College’s Rec-Fitness Center
Members of the Sun Shower Collective, consisting of GC students, faculty and staff, planned and are building solar panels to heat the water in the RFC.
Pre-eminent Italian concert violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg to collaborate with pianist Anne-Marie McDermott for Nov. 18 Performing Arts concert
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, renowned concert violinist, author and teacher, will offer a recital with Anne-Marie McDermott, nationally recognized pianist, for Goshen College's Performing Arts Series on Friday, Nov. 18
Symposium: A Bridge Between Peace, Justice, Religion, and Community
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Remembered with Love” – biology professor Jim Miller
This convocation will celebrate the contributions of biology professor James S. Miller to Goshen College over the course of his 31 year tenure here. It will include storytelling by colleagues and students and a slide show developed by Jim’s children...
Yilong site visit
Our third site visit of the week was to Yilong. Located northeast of Nanchong, the region’s terrain has higher hills and deeper valleys than elsewhere in Nanchong Prefecture. As noted several weeks ago, the government has begun constructing a “new”...
Langzhong site visit
Upon leaving Nanbu on Monday evening, Jo-Ann and Joe went on to Langzhong, about a 30-minute ride to the north and checked into the same hotel we all had stayed at during our National Holiday excursion to this beautiful city....
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