We opened this Wednesday off with Cesar Garcia returning as our guest speaker to continue our discussion on various topics related to Guatemalan history. The first note made by Garcia was a comparison of the origin and meaning of the name Guatemala. For instance, Wikipedia claims that the name “Guatemala”…
We’re officially a week into our 2022 SSTT program! Time has been flying by here in Guatemala. As we continue our routine of waking up, attending worship, and going to class, it’ll continue to move faster than we might want. After breakfast and our daily worship, our third class was…
We began day six with our previously mentioned “notorious” breakfast of frijoles, huevos, y tortillas. Needless to say, expectations were met amidst Keith’s hype surrounding the breakfasts here in Guatemala. Immediately after breakfast we followed up with our worship and centering prayer session with Cathy. Worship mainly consists of…
Our first official day in Guatemala has begun! Despite some jetlag and well-earned fatigue, everyone woke up at 8:00 sharp. Regardless of any visible exhaustion, there was still some visible excitement as breakfast in SEMILLA has been a renowned and highly discussed topic by Professor Keith. Or, as the students…
Today’s the day! After nearly three days of orientation on Goshen College’s campus, we finally departed for O’Hare, at the early hour of 4:00 a.m. Be that as it may, we were graced by the presence of parents and guardians who joined us for such an early send-off.
Our final day of orientation kicked off with our morning routine: getting ready for the day, heading out to breakfast, and departing for worship shortly after. Today’s worship session allowed for the majority of the group to open up to one another in regards to more recent tragic events such…
Rise and shine SSTTers! Shortly after these ambitious scholars arose from their slumber this morning, we departed for an early breakfast at 8:00 a.m. Our first full day of orientation began with a fifteen-minute worship session an hour after breakfast. The tunes of Open the Eyes of My Heart, and…
We’re back! After a two-year-long hiatus, Goshen College’s Study Service Theology Term has returned, along with the arrival of twenty new students. Nicholas and Dexter were the first to arrive this morning after a long train ride into Elkhart County. Despite their travels, we walked to Goshen Noodles for lunch.
Alex, Dion and Jacob collectively gave the sermon/story-telling at Kern Road Mennonite Church in South Bend this past Sunday, just a week after we returned from the Study-Service Theology Term in Guatemala. They shaped their words around Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s TED talk “The Danger of a Single Story,”…
As of yesterday afternoon, we said goodbye to the last of the SSTTers, who left from Goshen’s campus after two days of reorientation and debriefing. Sunday we talked about how our “single stories” about Guatemala had been complexified and complicated; sang together; finished writing our pilgrimage journals; did a…
