After being offline for more than two weeks, the SST Cambodia is back online now. We’ll be posting several posts within the next 24 hours, so feel free to keep checking back in. We’ll post these chronologically, beginning with photos...
Back Online: Settling into the Phnom Penh Routine
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Back Online: Settling into the Phnom Penh Routine
Convocation: “Why We Care about Public Education” – GHS principals Jim Kirkton and Phil Lederach
Principal Jim Kirkton and Assistant Principal Phil Lederach (’79) will share how and why they serve as leaders for Goshen High School. Click for audio file
Goshen College will play national anthem before sporting events
Goshen College announced today it will play an instrumental version of the Star-Spangled Banner before select sports events on campus, followed by prayer.
Chapel: “Wherever you go, there you are…God is present” – Parables, GC student-led traveling worship team
Join us as Parables, Goshen College’s student-led traveling worship team, leads us in our service on “Wherever you go, there you are…God is present.” Click for audio file
Brenneman calls for new ‘school of thought’ at Goshen of positive engagement in the world
Brenneman calls for new 'school of thought' at Goshen of positive engagement in the world
Welcome to the GC Men’s Choir 2010 tour blog!
The 45-voice Goshen College Men’s Chorus is touring during spring break, sharing music that reflects on the theme of “Healing the World, Song by Song” at churches and schools in Maryland, Washington, D.C., Virginia and Pennsylvania during its 2010 tour,...
Convocation: Voices-n-Harmony, Baritone Tony Brown and Poet Brenda Cardenas
Features GC students in a program of poetry, readings, recitations and story-telling. Ends at 9:45 a.m. Earns a convocation credit. This year’s theme is “The Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King: The Art of Peace.” Convocation will feature music and...
Book signing to be held for new book on Guy F. Hershberger and Mennonite pacifism
A reception and book signing will be held for Goshen College Professor Emeritus of History Theron F. Schlabach's new book War, Peace and Social Conscience: Guy F. Hershberger and Mennonite Ethics (Herald Press, 2009) on Tuesday, Jan. 19 from 3:30…
Goshen College focuses on peacemaking during Jan. 18 MLK Study Day
During Goshen College's 17th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Study Day on Monday, Jan. 18, the life and legacy of Dr. King's emphasis on making peace will be celebrated through music, poetry, prayer, story-telling, a town hall discussion and a…
President’s speech: “Getting to Yes and Amen! The New GC ‘School of Thought’”
Chapel sermon by Dr. James E. Brenneman, president of Goshen College, on Friday, Jan. 15, 2010 – Goshen College Church-Chapel
Chapel: “Getting to Yes and Amen! The New ‘GC School'”- President Jim Brenneman
President Jim Brenneman preaches on “Getting to Yes and Amen! The New ‘GC School'” based on II Corinthians 1:20-22 from The Message: “Whatever God has promised gets stamped with the Yes of Jesus. In Jesus, this is what we preach...
Convocation: “The Struggle for Migrant Worker Justice” – Dr. Ken Barger, anthropologist
Sponsored by the new Latino Studies SST program, directed by Ana Juarez of the Center for Intercultural Teaching and Learning. Click for audio file
Families
After a lively presentation by our coordinator, Celia, about life with Peruvian families, we arrived at Home Peru to find our host families ready and waiting. We said goodbye to each other and then began greeting the mothers, fathers, sisters,...
Orientation
There is so much to learn when you first arrive. We settled into the living room at Goshen Tambo on our first morning of orientation and asked each student to check in. One described the excitement of being in a...
Chapel: “Does Prayer Matter?” – Bob Yoder, campus pastor
In our first chapel of the second semester, Bob Yoder, campus pastor will share some thoughts as he ponders the question: Does Prayer Matter? Join us for a time of worship and re-connection. Click for audio file
All in the Families
By 6:30 p.m. this evening (Friday evening for us, Friday morning in the U.S.), all 19 students had gone home with their host families. It was a whirlwind day, first with orientation at the hotel, a driving tour of the...
Settled into Phnom Penh!
Nineteen healthy and happy Cambodia SSTers arrived at the Phnom Penh Airport two hours ago. After about an hour of moving through the visa, immigration, and customs process, we were on our way to the Colonial Mansion, where we’re all...
Arrival
Seventeen students arrived as scheduled at Jorge Chavez International Airport in Lima, shifting from mid-winter in North America to mid-summer in the Southern Hemisphere in a matter of hours. We got checked into Home Peru well after midnight. We plan...
Homecoming 2010
Class reunion photos for classes of 1945, 1950, 1955, 1960, 1965, 1970, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990, 2000. View photos of the alumni awardees and from events of the weekend.
Meeting with Host Families
Tuesday evening Ann, Keith, Sreyhem (our family assistant/coordinator) and Marya (our local assistant/coordinator) met with students’ host families on the Mennonite Central Committee rooftop. Parents were quite animated as they looked over the personal information sheets for their students, asking...
Alumnus Peter J Dyck dies at age 95 after life of service and storytelling
Peter J. Dyck, a 1952 Goshen College alumnus, was born in Lysanderhöh, Russia, on Dec. 4, 1914. He died Jan. 4, 2010 of cancer at the age of 95.
Christmas in Thailand, Ringing in the New Year, Awaiting Students’ Arrival
The Graber Millers spent Christmas weekend in nearby Bangkok, just an hour’s flight away. The kids loved the enormous buffet breakfasts, and they were especially pleased with our hotel’s majestic, rooftop pool, with stunning views overlooking the sprawling city of...
Visiting Students’ Cambodian Host Families
Sreyhem and Keith spent much of the week visiting host families for the SST group, seeing 20 homes and talking with a 21st family over the course of the last several days. We are awaiting a firm response from two...
Jim Caskey is named vice president for institutional advancement
Goshen College President Jim Brenneman named Jim Caskey as the new vice president for institutional advancement, a key position on the President’s Council. Caskey started working at Goshen College in 1997 in the Development Office, and most recently served as…
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