Graduating seniors (Sarah Wilson, James Weber) share how their faith has been shaped while at GC.

Come on out for our final chapel of the second semester! This chapel service will be a hymn sing based on student favorites. You’ll have opportunity to email your vote to the leaders, who will then create a worship service centered around the top selected hymns.

Contemporary Job or just another Joe? In this chapel John Blosser, professor of art, will offer personal reflections on his recent strolls through the Valley of the Shadow of Death (recent encounters with Lymphoma, a second coronary and multiple losses of loved ones) and how these experiences may have tempered his faith.

“Women & Art in Costa Rica” – Prof. Beth Martin Birky and students

Within the Christian tradition, we have over one thousand names for God. This morning’s Chapel service, led by students in the Worshiping Communities class, will give us the opportunity to offer praise and thanksgiving to our God of Many Names as we weave together scripture, metaphor, and song.

Davidow is president of the Institute of the Americas and author of The U.S. and Mexico: The bear and the porcupine. He is a career state department official who has served as an ambassador to several countries and also as a visiting fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

Join us for a special MONDAY chapel service focusing on the theme of Holy Week. As part of this worship service, there will be a time for you to come forward for anointing. Lent and Holy Week is a time to pause and reflect on our brokenness and that which is all around us. This chapel service will recognize those parts of ourselves and engage in singing, worship, prayers in ways that may foster a sense of hope and healing, particularly as we look toward Easter and the hope offered through a resurrected Jesus.

Ruby Sales, guest campus speaker, will challenge us to explore how we can be active in this world because of our faith commitments.

Join us for a SPECIAL Wednesday chapel. Ruby Sales, campus guest speaker, will share share the first of two chapels on this day sharing from her own personal faith story.

Dolores Huerta was a co-founder of the United Farm Workers organization, based in California. She is a long-time and highly respected community activist. Her visit to GC is sponsored by the Multicultural Affairs Office and the Center for Intercultural Teaching and Learning (CITL).

We will focus on this week’s Lenten theme of “Into New Life,” based from John 11:1-45, which is the story of the raising of Lazarus. Student Nathan Graber will preach and we will be led in worship by Jeremy Kempf and Neil Reicher from Mennonite Mission Network.

Guest speakers are two young men who serve in Germany with the Military Counseling Network, counseling U.S. service personnel who decide that their conscience can no longer allow them to participate in war.

Black History Month invites us to celebrate and learn more about the contributions of African Americans to our culture, society, and faith. In that spirit, this Chapel service will be a time of worship reflecting on the inspiring sights and sounds of the Civil Rights Movement.

Students from the spring 2007 Study Service Term in Cambodia share their stories.

Members of the Latino Student Union lead Goshen College students and faculty in a service of spoken word and song.

Bible professor Paul Keim and PJCS professor Joe Liechty were chosen to present this year’s C. Henry Smith peace lecture on the Goshen and Bluffton campuses. This convocation will be extended to 10:45.

Hear stories of summer service experiences and be led in worship by several GC students who participated in Camping Inquiry Program this past summer. The 6 CIPers and the service site locations include: Charity Grimes – Amigo Centre, MI; Hannah Miller – Laurelville Mennonite Church Center, PA; Libby Smith – Menno Haven Camp & Retreat Center, IL; Mercy Oyana – Spruce Lake Retreat, PA; Paul Boers – Silver Lake Mennonite Camp, ON; Tony Janzen – Rocky Mountain Mennonite Camp, CO

The Christian church contains many different denominational traditions, which emphasize different aspects of Christian life and different portions of the Bible. However, an increasing number of Christians find denominational divisions irrelevant at best and negative at worst. History professor John D. Roth has been involved in numerous interdenominational conversations. In this convocation he will reflect on what he has learned in those conversations.