prepared to live as "Christian world citizens," as former GC President Paul

Mininger hoped, and people with the ability to be multicultural in a diverse

world of multiple, overlapping communities and interwoven stories.

Internationalism Back on Campus

beginning of every term, from 20 to 80 students return to the campus from

their overseas locations, along with other students who have opted for Junior

Year Abroad programs or other international study. In both formal and

informal ways, recently returned students do much of the orientation for their

peers who are about to go on the Study-Service Term. Stories and photo albums

about SST abound on campus, and students fairly frequently publish on-

campus PinchPenny Press books out of their experience. Often groups, or

persons from groups as illustrated above, do chapel or convocation

presentations for the student body. Among the clothing that is "cool" on

campus are shirts, skirts and flowing gowns from parts of Africa, Asia and

Latin America. Each fall the college hosts a growing Ethnic Festival, which

draws thousands from a 50-mile radius around Goshen for a day of food,

international dancing, art and performances. The international culture is so

thick that some returning Study-Service Term students complain that they

have had the "cliché SST experience," and that no one is willing to hear their

stories since they have already heard hundreds more about life-changing

encounters and cultural differences.

Students wanting to continue developing their language skills or their

cross-cultural interactions sometimes volunteer to work with La Casa, a local,

church-sponsored service agency for lower-income Goshen residents; tutor

recently arrived immigrant children in local schools; or seek out relationships

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