Jerrell Ross Richer is professor of economics at Goshen College and an international service worker for Mennonite Mission Network. Jerrell and his wife, Jane, spend the first six months of each year living in the Ecuadorian rainforest with their family, accompanying indigenous church and community leaders.
Research shows that students at CCCU schools are more likely to face a religious crisis than their secular counterparts.
Taliah Borom, a senior at Goshen College studying Spanishwith a marketing minor, said she never knew anything about coding and didn’t consider it until Brave.
Abby King '20 & Marisa Smucker '94 shared stories in morning worship July 4 at the Mennonite Church USA convention about how they experienced transformation when they encountered God at work in their lives.
At the Mennonite Church USA convention in Kansas City, Jerrell and Jane Ross Richer and Sarah Augustine led a seminar called “Speaking to the Systems and Walking with Indigenous People.” The Richers work half the year with the Cofán people of eastern Ecuador, while in the other half Jerrell teaches at Goshen College.
The Goshen College men’s soccer team has a new head coach. Victor Newberg, 31, was hired May 31.
Twenty-one Goshen College athletes, coaches and teachers went on a three-week mini-SST trip to the Dominican Republic.
It’s the sixth year Goshen College has taught a class inside the Elkhart County jail south of Elkhart, but the first without Carolyn Schrock-Shenk, who brought the program to GC and Elkhart County.
In the last decade or so, there has been an explosion of eateries in Goshen that are committed to serving local, sustainably grown fare and have formed close relationships with area farms, many started and run by Goshen College alumni.
Philipp Gollner is assistant professor of U.S. history at Goshen (Ind.) College and book review editor for Mennonite Quarterly Review.
