Guatemala
September 26, 2018
Third group of high school students to travel to Guatemala City in 2019
Goshen College is preparing to send a third group of 20 high school sophomores, juniors and seniors to Guatemala City in the summer of 2019 for Study-Service Theology Term (SSTT). The study-abroad program in Guatemala is made possible by a grant from the Lilly Endowment, based in Indianapolis. Goshen College is one of 94 colleges and universities around the nation to receive a grant intended to give high school students interested in theology and ministry the chance to explore their future in the church. However, Goshen is the only institution that uses this fund to take high school students abroad...
September 7, 2017
GC begins SSTT program for high-schoolers
On June 11, 20 students, all still in high school or recently graduated, boarded a plane at O’Hare Airport in Chicago bound for Guatemala. For the next two weeks these students would engage in an intensive program created by Goshen College and the Lilly Endowment called Study-Service Theology Term (SSTT). This program was designed with the intent of exposing young people interested in theology to different ways of theological thinking, and to start nurturing the tools for theological leadership. The Lilly Endowment is a philanthropic organization based out of Indianapolis that recognizes the need for a new generation of driven...
March 9, 2017
SSTT unit set for June 2017
Out of the 46 high school sophomores, juniors and seniors that applied for the Study-Service Theology Term, 20 of them will be traveling to Guatemala in June 2017 for the programs’ first term. Before leaving for Guatemala, the students will stay on campus for two days of orientation led by Jo-Ann Brant, professor of Bible, religion and philosophy. After orientation on campus, the students will travel to Guatemala under the direction of Keith Graber Miller, professor of Bible, religion and philosophy, Ann Graber Miller, Peter Paetkau, senior, and Gloria Showalter, recent GC alum. The SSTT group will spend just over...
October 13, 2016
Introduction of Study-Service Theology Term
Goshen College is inviting 20 Latino and African-American high school students from Christian denominations across the United States to take part in a two-week Study-Service Theology Term. The first SSTT will take place in June 2017, when Keith Graber Miller, a professor of Bible, religion and philosophy, will lead the study and travel in Guatemala. The Lilly Endowment invited Goshen College to submit a proposal for a program involving high schools across the U.S. to motivate students to consider working in the church. “All Christian congregations across the country right now have a shortage of pastors,” said Graber Miller, “so...
September 15, 2010
A ‘mini SST’ in Guatemala
In an effort to make a connection with the Latino culture, Goshen College’s Center for Intercultural Teaching and Learning has offered individual grants to faculty and staff members for a Summer Spanish Language Study. From June 29 to July 26, Jodi Beyeler, news bureau director, decided she would take this opportunity to head to Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. Although there are many Spanish-speaking countries to choose from, Jodi decided she would return to Guatemala. “I went there for two weeks when I was in high school,” said Beyeler. “Dean Rhodes, who is a Spanish professor here, had been my Spanish teacher then...