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Aug 01 2015

By Karen and Duane Sherer Stoltzfus Peru SST Co-Directors, 2014-2015 After six weeks of service, with intense experiences at farflung locations in the mountains and in the jungle, it was very good to be together for two days along the...

Jul 27 2015

Philip shares a journal entry. He and Hayley served in the remote town of Vito, three hours along a twisty, bumpy dirt road from the small city of Chalhuanca, in the state of Apurímac. The sun was shining high in...

Jul 27 2015

Josh shares a journal entry, a profile of a young man who lives at a camp called Kimo, owned by Unión Bíblica, an evangelical church. Kimo, which means “happiness” in Asháninka, the local indigenous language, is a home for boys...

Jul 27 2015

  Anna shares a journal entry on the phrase “Para mí, para ti,” or “For me, for you.” As part of her final research project, she interviewed women in Oxapampa, including her host mother, Teofila, known as “Pauli,”  and her...

Jul 27 2015

We said good-bye to our wonderful students around 5:30 a.m. Nica time (7:30 a.m. GC time). They disappeared through security and now are in flight to Atlanta and then onto Chicago, scheduled to arrive there at 5:20 p.m. local time...

Jul 27 2015

Beginning Monday, Aug. 3, concertgoers have the opportunity to secure individual tickets for all concerts in the Goshen College Performing Arts Series, including Ira Glass, Roseanne Cash, Bobby McFerrin, Béla Fleck, Chris Thile, Soweto Gospel Choir and Rhiannon Giddons, among…

Jul 27 2015

By Karen and Duane Sherer Stoltzfus Peru SST Co-Directors, 2014-2015 We said goodbye to the 19 students in our summer SST group at the security gate at the Jorge Chavez International Airport in Lima late on Sunday night. They were...

Jul 25 2015

 Once in a blue moon… June 1st, July 1st and today, July 31st , the significant dates of the ASI program and the dates of this summer’s full moons. I knew as an urban farmer that I was in for...

Jul 24 2015

By Karen and Duane Sherer Stoltzfus Peru SST Co-Directors, 2014-2015 One way to teach English words to a child who speaks Spanish is simply to say a word in Spanish (sapo) and then have students repeat the word in English...

Jul 22 2015

By Karen and Duane Sherer Stoltzfus Peru SST Co-Directors, 2014-2015 The two young men walking toward us in the plaza in Santa Ana looked like the Zach and David we remembered — only different. Both were tanned and sporting beards....

Jul 22 2015

ISAIAH FRIESEN & LUKE KAUFMAN are serving in the city of Masatepe.  They only have a couple days left there, but here’s what they’ve been up to…   JOURNAL EXCERPTS BY LUKE KAUFMAN: “For service I am working in the...

Jul 20 2015

By Karen and Duane Sherer Stoltzfus Peru SST Co-Directors, 2014-2015 If you are bound for the city of San Ramón, as Jessica was, you have a choice of many different bus lines to get there — but all share the...

Jul 20 2015

On Monday, July 20, the Goshen College Board of Directors announced that it has updated its non-discrimination policy to include sexual orientation and gender identity under the list of protections.

Jul 18 2015

By Karen and Duane Sherer Stoltzfus Peru SST Co-Directors, 2014-2015 A large sign at the entrance to William Thomson, a private Christian school in Ayacucho, promotes an “alianza estratégica,” or strategic alliance, with Goshen College, “la universidad de Indiana.” Abbie...

Jul 17 2015

EMILY SCHROCK, BEN SHELLY, and MOLLY ZOOK are all spending their service term in the northern mountain city of Jinotega. Emily works in the mornings at a school for children with special needs and the organization, Casa Materna in the...

Jul 14 2015

  POSTING BY ISAIAH FRIESEN: This past weekend, July 11-12, Luke Kaufman and I ran a vaunted and long-awaited race of 30 kilometers from Managua to Masaya. This event also includes races of 5k, 10k, 15k, and 42k, with the...

Jul 13 2015

DAVID PAULS is spending his service term at the Vicente Padilla family coffee farm outside of Matagalpa.  The Padilla family is committed to organic and sustainable practices throughout their farm.  They live and work by the principles of permaculture. JOURNAL...

Jul 12 2015

By Karen and Duane Sherer Stoltzfus Peru SST Co-Directors, 2014-2015 When Margarita Ayma Carlos finished her work day at the La Fuente medical clinic in Cusco, we joined her for the 30-minute bus ride and 10-minute cab ride to her...

Jul 11 2015

EMMA KOOP LIECHTY and SOPHIE SEARS are spending their 6 weeks of service in the beautiful mountain city of Matagalpa.  Emma is serving in Colegio Bautista Matagalpa, a private primary school while Sophie is serving in small public school, La...

Jul 10 2015

College got a bit easier and more enjoyable this past academic year for some students at Goshen College, thanks to an innovative peer mentoring program by the Center for Intercultural and International Education (CIIE).

Jul 10 2015

Maddie Birky and Brianne Brenneman have service placements in Estelí, the 3rd largest city in Nicaragua. Maddie serves with an organization that has a Bibliobus-a mobile library program for school children especially in the region of Miraflor outside the city...

Jul 07 2015

It may come as a shock to people that Goshen College has had an electric vehicle (EV) charging station for almost a year. On the north side of the Chairman Building at the college sits the first public level-two charging...

Jul 07 2015

By Karen and Duane Sherer Stoltzfus Peru SST Co-Directors, 2014-2015 When we arrived in Curahuasi,  we dropped off our bags and made our way to the Centro de Salud, the public health clinic where Becca and Kourtney have been doing...

Jul 06 2015

David Jantz and Emily Vogt are spending their service term in the town and surrounding areas of Santo Domingo in the Chontales department/region of Nicaragua. A JOURNAL EXCERPT BY DAVID JANTZ: “The town is located in an idyllic setting with...