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Commencement speech (video and full text): “Three Things” by Carrie Newcomer ’80

Commencement address (as prepared for delivery) by Carrie Newcomer ’80, at the 118th Goshen College Commencement on Sunday, April 24, 2016. Copyright Carrie Newcomer. RELATED LINKS: Commencement story: “Carrie Newcomer encourages graduates to ‘be true, be kind and pay attention’ with words and song” Commencement photo album…

Author and filmmaker Mike Tidwell to speak on climate change Sept 29-30

Mike Tidwell, author and filmmaker who predicted in vivid detail the Hurricane Katrina disaster in his 2003 book “Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana’s Cajun Coast,” will present the 2015 Yoder Public Affairs lecture at Goshen College on Tuesday, Sept. 29 at 7:30 p.m. in the Goshen College Church-Chapel.

President’s speech: “The Divine Poet: Servant Leadership Defined”

For now, as we begin this new year, let’s do our best to serve others above self in any and every way we can and so give witness to the GC core value servant leadership.

President’s baccalaureate sermon: “Dawning lights”

Keep shining dear graduates. Shine on the poor, the captives, the down and out, those in need, the oppressed, the broken hearted. Shine forth with neighborly love and compassion.

Commencement speech: “From the Maple City to Cyberabad: What I wish I had known at graduation”

You will be your most creative, most effective, most productive, most resilient self when you figure out how to play to your strengths.

Biyani encourages graduates to add value to the world by focusing on strengths

Members of the Goshen College Class of 2015 received undergraduate and graduate degrees after being encouraged by speaker and alumnus Raj Biyani ’92 to add value to the world by focusing on their strengths during the college’s 117th commencement on Sunday, April 26.

President’s Speech: “Listening to the World: The First Commandment of a Global Citizen”

Spring semester convocation message, delivered by Dr. James E. Brenneman, President of Goshen College, on Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015, in the Goshen College Church-Chapel (as prepared for delivery).

President’s speech: “Citizens of Earth and Sky"

Fall Opening Convocation message, delivered by Dr. James E. Brenneman, President of Goshen College, on Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014, in the Goshen College Church-Chapel (as prepared for delivery)

President’s sermon “Footprints: Evidence of History and the Promise of Future”

Baccalaureate sermon, (as prepared for delivery) by Dr. James E. Brenneman, president of Goshen College on Sunday, April 27, 2014 in the Goshen College Church-Chapel

Commencement speech: “The Imperative of Providence”

2014 commencement speech by Joyce Bontrager Lehman: “The Imperative of Providence”