Gilberto Perez Jr. is Eastern Mennonite University’s 2018 Distinguished Service Award recipient. The dean of students at Goshen College, Perez has dedicated his life to serving in many roles – therapist, social worker, peace evangelist, community advocate and social work professor.
Colleen Geier, associate professor of ASL interpreting, finds life's calling as ASL interpreter.
Richard Aguirre, director of corporate and foundation relations at Goshen College, appeared on PBS News Hour on May 11, 2018 (appears 4 minutes, 35 seconds in).
The Board of Directors of Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary has appointed Beverly Lapp '91, Ed.D., professor of music and core chair at GC, as the seminary’s new vice president and academic dean, beginning July 1, 2018.
We spoke with Goshen Athletics Director Josh Gleason about setting enrollment goals, determining the process, and adding junior varsity programming.
"What got me hooked was my interview with the students that morning; to hear their opinions … their strong feelings and beliefs about things that are very important to me: peace, justice, volunteerism, things like that."
I came to the Orlando convention for two reasons. The first relates to my work as a Goshen College professor: three recent Goshen graduates (Sarah Hofkamp, Laura Miller and Zachary Zimmerman) and I offered a seminar on the Bystander Intervention program we have developed at Goshen College. The second emerges from my role as a board member for Mennonite Women (MW) USA: I helped Marlene Bogard and the MW USA staff (Berni Kaufman and Katie McKinnell) celebrate the organization’s 100th anniversary.
Being connected to the Mennonite Church is a stream that runs deeply through my life. My heritage has long roots in the Anabaptist tradition for which I am grateful. But my connection consists of much more than an ethnic, cultural and familial basis. While each of these elements plays a role in whom I am, I find the deepest connection in the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
For Art Smucker, his time serving with MCC in Europe following World War II focused on rebuilding the infrastructure decimated by the war. But he soon found that relationships were also being built in the process.
Let us also recall the lives of Norbort Khongolo and Corneille Malula; let us remember Pascal Kulungu and the Center for Peacebuilding, Leadership and Good Governance; let us pray daily for the security of our Congolese Mennonite brothers and sisters and for all those in the world who live in fear; and let us not shrink back from the call to be peacemakers in a violent world, even if the cost is high and the weight of history seems overwhelming.
