After breakfast and centering prayer led by Gwen, we started off the first structured day of our Guatemalan SSTT with an intense and moving 2017 film, “Finding Oscar” (see trailer here), which chronicled the Guatemalan civil war through a particular 1982 massacre by the Guatemalan Army. Only a few…
Today was a full day, beginning with breakfast and orientation led by Carla Gonzalez and Leonor and Jerry Kennel, who work with CASAS — an educational program that usually serves college students — on the SEMILLA campus. Leonor expressed gratitude for our program since money we pay for housing and…
After leaving Goshen at 4 a.m. this morning, we arrived safely at SEMILLA in Guatemala City around 9 p.m. Guatemala time (two hours behind Indiana time), so our total travel time was about 19 hours, door to door. It was a relief to pull in at the seminary campus and…
The Study-Service Theology Term (SSTT) is off to a roaring start, beginning with 48 hours of orientation in and around Goshen College's campus.
