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.

Using Psalm 30 as a theme Scripture, Pamela will share about her journey to find recovery and hope from anorexia and depression that she experienced for several years in her twenties. She will share of God’s healing presence and power in her physical, emotional and spiritual struggle to find her voice and new health.

David Cortright is an international expert on using sanctions and other diplomatic tools as alternatives to war. Fourth Freedom Forum is headquartered here in Goshen. Its name originates from the fourth freedom that U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt proposed for all people everywhere: freedom from fear. Cortright also teaches at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. After the convocation, Cortright’s latest book, Gandhi and Beyond: Nonviolence in an Age of Terrorism, will be for sale at the discounted price of in the west lobby of the church-chapel building.

The music of a hymn grows out of a specific time and place and speaks best for those people who created and use it. But a group of worshipers can move beyond its own “sound pool” of favorites to embrace the treasures of other cultures. The result can deepen and enrich its understanding of worship at home and abroad. Join us for chapel today as retired faculty member Mary Oyer leads us in worship of God by engaging us in a variety of hymns.

Dwight N. Hopkins, Univ. of Chicago Theology Prof. on “Martin Luther King and the Future of Multicultural America”

Voices-n-Harmony & AfriCaribe Song and Dance

Together, eight Goshen College students will use their musical, theatrical and spiritual talents to present worship services this year rich with a blend of music and drama reaching back from 16th century Britain and moving forward to current day Africa. With a program titled “God is Here Among Us,” the 2007-2008 Goshen College worship team, Parables, will offer a circuit of performances at churches and schools around the country to share not only their experiences in faith but also the impact these stories and songs have. This year’s Parables team is directed by Debra Brubaker, professor of music at Goshen College, and includes junior music majors Nathan Swartzendruber (Kalona, Iowa), Josh Tyson (Harrisonburg, Va.) and Greg Yoder (Perkasie, Pa.). Other juniors include Dara Joy Jaworowicz (Kenwood, Mich.), a music and Bible and religion double major, Jesse Landis-Eigsti (Lakewood, Colo.), a music major, and Emily Swora (Shoreview, Minn.), a theater and music double major. Sophomores include Vanessa Hershberger (Cedar Falls, Iowa), a peace, justice and conflict studies major, and Anna Showalter (Waynesboro, Pa.), a music and history double major.