Jerrell Ross Richer is Professor of Ecnomics. He and his family led SST units in Peru from 2011-13.

Students and faculty members will read original works and also the works of others: poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Featured speaker: Tony Brown Presented by graduate students in the Environmental Education program, based at Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center.

Students who traveled to Georgia in November for the protest at the “School of the Americas,” where many abusive Latin American military personnel were trained, will reflect on their experience.

Dr. Janneken Smucker is a Goshen College alumna who is currently a history professor at West Chester State University in Pennsylvania. She teaches courses in Digital History; Public History; Material Culture; American social and cultural history; American Studies; Consumer Culture; and Globalization. Dr. Smucker has just published a book: Amish Quilts: The Story of America’s ‘First Abstract Art,’ exploring these objects and the people who have made, bought, sold, preserved, and cherished them. She is also serving as consulting curator for a permanent exhibition and website interpreting the history of quilt-making in the western world for the International Quilt Study Center & Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Christmas cheer for all: cookies, hot cider, stories, songs & games.

Dr. Deb Brubaker’s Songleading class will lead the community in a service of scripture and song reflecting on the coming of the Christ Child.

This convocation presents the best true life stories from students in fall Academic Voice classes.

Sarah Adams is a long-time Middle East peace worker with Mennonite Central Committee.

Biblical Storytelling — from an ASL perspective

Carina Zehr and Lauren Treiber are organizers for the Cambodia SSTers, who will tell stories about their experience.

Ann Lehman, from the Center for Community Justice, and Gretchen Lund, Goshen city judge, will introduce the Victim-Offender Reconciliation Program (VORP). The first VORP program in the U.S. was begun in Elkhart by Goshen College alumnus Howard Zehr in 1978.A Core Values Institute event

Kate Stoltzfus & Kolton Nay are organizing this convocation, which will tell stories from the Spring 2013 Peru SST unit.

To celebrate Hispanic Heritage month, Latino students will describe many streams of Hispanic heritage that make up their own families.

Service Inquiry students will share stories and reflections out of their summer Service Inquiry assignments.

Bishop Rhoades is the Roman Catholic bishop for the Fort Wayne and South Bend areas in Indiana. He will speak on Compassionate Peacemaking.