According to the most recent survey, 10 percent of 2017 traditional GC graduates were in volunteer or service programs, compared to five percent at peer institutions. A 2018 survey of Goshen College alumni also showed that 30 percent of GC grads do community service or volunteer work at least once a month, and 78 percent do so at least once a year.
You can find AJ Delgadillo selling the soil from his composting business at the Goshen Farmers Market.
Clinton Stroble II '19, a peace, justice and conflict studies major from Newport News, Virginia, is finding ways to build relationships on campus, on the baseball field and around the world.
AJ. Delgadillo '17 began worm composting and found it to be such a rewarding process that he’s taken it on as a means to help others maintain sustainable disposal of their own household food waste.
Tiffany Friesen '91 and her Atlanta neighbors didn't like living on "Confederate Avenue." After years of discussion and months of neighborly activism, her street has a new name: United Avenue.
Goshen College Associate Professor of Peace, Justice and Conflict Studies Carolyn Schrock-Shenk died early Wednesday morning, Feb. 6, 2019, after a brief hospitalization at the age of 63.
Christi Sessa is a senior peace, justice and conflict studies major at Goshen College, where this originally appeared in the Goshen Record student newspaper.
Goshen College alumnus and adjunct professor Philip Thomas, a peace advocate who had traveled to more than 30 countries around the world in his work with heads of states, indigenous groups, community leaders and corporate executives, died on Nov. 29, 2018, of natural causes due to a heart attack in Nairobi, Kenya.
Five Goshen College students traveled to Puerto Rico during fall break, Oct. 15-19, to serve with Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) in an area affected by Hurricane Maria in September 2017.
This article comes from the October issue of The Mennonite, which focuses on “Loving Enemies.” Joanne Gallardo is pastor of faith formation at Berkey Avenue Mennonite Fellowship in Goshen, Ind.
