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Commencement 2021: Baccalaureate

Apr 25 2021

At the baccalaureate worship service on Sunday, April 25, 2021, Rev. Dr. LaKendra Hardware, director of diversity, equity and inclusion, delivered a message titled “God’s Got You” based on 2 Corinthians 12:9-10, Romans 8:37-39, Isaiah 61 and Psalm 121, and the morning’s theme of “Resiliency through adversity, in faith, by living boldly.”

Other senior participants included Nithya Abraham, Eden George, Stephen Lowe, Laura Miller, Katja Norton, Madeline Smith Kauffman, and Shelbey Younts, as well as student musicians Abraham, Nathan Berkey, Abigail Greaser, Simon Hurst, Lucia Keim Hernandez, Gogo Liegise, Mackenzie Miller, Norton, Janelle Preheim, Lisa Rosado Rivera, Emmalene Rupp, Xan Seymour, Bek Zehr, Ainslee Zou and the Goshen College choirs.

Goshen College Campus Pastor Joanne Gallardo gave a call to worship and a blessing, and President Rebecca Stoltzfus brought the benediction.


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