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Students are now on their way either home or to new adventures, and it feels a little unreal that 2024 Indonesian SST is over. We spent this last weekend with a mix of activities. We toured a Hindu temple and...
Cleaning overgrown senderos and planting trees in the rural towns surrounding Cotacachi has been the work that Naomi Klassen and I have started on service. Oftentimes at the beginning of a work day, we know very little of what the...
Today’s post is written by Gavin Johnson, who is serving in Ungaran. He writes about revisiting our study setting in Yogyakarta. Study term was so much fun, from the language class and malls to the trips and the city of...
Today’s post was written by Jacob Stoltzfus, who is serving in Melolo, Sumba, an island in the eastern part of Indonesia. During the service portion of my SST, I was assigned to the Love Sumba organization stationed in Melolo, East...
Today’s post was written by Carlos Lichty, who is doing his service at the Laboratory Middle School at Satya Wacana University in Salatiga. For my service assignment, I was placed at a local Christian Middle School named UKSW SMP here...
Today’s post was written by Lindsey Daniels, who is serving with Wijna, a community organization in Salatiga. As we were coming up to our 10th week of SST, Carlos, Camila, and I decided that we wanted to explore a...
This is our first student produced blog post, which is a poem. In the next couple of days, we will be adding more students’ reflections and images. Falling: A Poem first stop tell me what you see before i tell...
Today’s post is written by Peri Mast-Hochstedler. They are serving at Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana Laboratory High School in Salatiga. During my time in Saltiga, I have had the pleasure of observing classes and teaching English at the Satya Wacana...
Today’s post is written Camila Perez-Diener. She is serving in the Satya Wacana Laboratory Elementary School in Salatiga, Central Java. I entered my service term expecting to assist the English teachers with their classes and maybe work in the library...
Today’s post is written by Evan King, who is doing his service in Yogyakarta. During service, I have not been given as much opportunity to interact with my host family because, during the week, I am living at Bumi Cendekia,...
Today’s blog is written by Jonathan Weaver, who is doing his service on the island of Sumba. I have been living with my host family in Sumba for close to four weeks now. During this time I have continued to...
Today’s post is written by Johanna Morford-Oberst, who is doing her service at UNDANA university in Kupang, Timor. On Tuesday, March 5th, Pak Dr. Niko, my supervisor, took Brenton, my service partner, and I to Susteran Alma Orphanage. This is...
Each Study Service Term culminates in six weeks of service engagement with local organizations throughout the host country (casually referred to as “Service”). After the initial six weeks of cultural and academic study, the shift in location and purpose opens...
Today’s post was written by Brenton Pham. He is currently doing his service portion in Kupang on the island of Timor. It just so happened that, in the first week of service, the University Nusa Cendana in Kupang would be...
Friends, I have never led SST before, so I do not know how unusual our experience in Yogyakarta was, but I have been astounded at every turn with the kindness and generosity of our host families, our teachers, the international...
To the east of Yogya is the Hindu temple of Prambanan and to the northwest of Yogya is the Buddhist temple of Borobudur. Borobudur is slightly older (build in 8th Century, while Prambanan was built in the 9th Century; both...
Friends, I will first confess that I am behind on blogging, but I fully intend to catch up in the next 24 hours. Watch for blogs on our visits to Prambanan and Borobudur Temples, as well as our final farewell...
Our sixth week came fast and, with it, time to wrap up our academic, cultural, and artistic activities, and to say goodbye to Quito. The time flew by, and while we had great times as a group exploring the city,...
While our theme for the 2024 Indonesia SST unity is “unity in diversity,” with a particular focus on inter-religious work, we have participated in a number of arts in Indonesia as well. Having these creative outlets over the last 5...
We journeyed forth on our environmental field trip this past week. Our destination was a traditional village that is working to address environmental and economic issues by reforestation with productive trees (mango and avocado) and development of environmental tourism to...
This week, we visited a property on the outskirts of Quito where two families that sadly and abruptly fled their home countries have found a place to live. The location was generously lent by a member of the Mennonite Church...
SST students and faculty visited Dream Farm, a flower producing facility in Guayllabamba, a small town 45 minutes north from Quito. We learned that the business of flowers is a huge source of revenue for the area, specially before Valentine’s...
This week we were privileged to see several new sides of Indonesian culture. Last Monday was opening day of the new semester of classes at the university in which we study (UKDW, here in Yogyakarta). We were invited to the...
Otavalo, a small town, two hours north from Quito, is world known for its artisanal crafts such as textiles, musical instruments, jewelry, hats, and hammocks. The community is proud of its indigenous heritage, practices, language, and customs. María Virginia Farinango...
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