Posted on October 26, 2017
"My latest visit to Beijing fell just a week before the start of the China’s Communist Party’s quinquennial congress. Preparations were in full swing as shop-owners hung flags and plastered banners, and an army of maintenance people worked around the clock to prepare the city for the arrival of President Xi Jinping."
Posted on October 3, 2017
Dr. Steven Hunt, professor of New Testament, taught his new class “Romans in Rome” for the first time this summer as a part of the Gordon IN Orvieto program.
Posted on September 27, 2017
Once a Compassion International sponsor child and now a Compassion employee, Keewani Vallejo shared her story of redemption and hope at Gordon recently.
Posted on August 22, 2017
“My hope for the students’ participation is that their lives will be transformed in the decades to come as they learn to read Scripture through the added lens of geography,” says Dr. Elaine Phillips of the Israel Seminar.
Posted on June 1, 2017
CURE Niger, a children’s hospital in Africa where Josh ’05 and Julie ’02 Korn serve, has a new playground for patients, funded in part by the sales of final artwork by students in the Gordon IN Orvieto program.
Posted on May 22, 2017
While studying at Gordon, Anna Jonker ’14 was met with a life-changing opportunity that began when she met a Peace Corps representative at a career fair and received a nudge of encouragement from Dr. Dorothy Boorse (biology).
Posted on May 1, 2017
Since 2015, Roland has been serving as an agriculture volunteer in northern Ghana, where he teaches farm management practices and helps groups of farmers form mutually beneficial partnerships.
Posted on April 17, 2017
A former art teacher from Chicago, Klamesha Richards discovered a knack for serving college students while pursuing her master’s in intercultural studies. Now she's the Fulton Hall resident director and champion for diversity on campus.
Posted on March 17, 2017
In a new series on The Bell, President Lindsay will be bringing a variety of perspectives from his corner office in Frost to the far-flung corners of the world where he travels—and everything in between.
Posted on February 23, 2017
Some traveled from as far as Pennsylvania and Mississippi earlier this month to celebrate their shared Gordon IN Orvieto memories as they once again experienced Maria Battistini’s one-of-a-kind Umbrian cuisine and spunk.
Posted on January 20, 2017
“It took me going across the globe in a puddle of tenderness to fully grasp who God is and the way he so specifically uses Israel in the story of faith.” Ali Bolsinger ’19 shares her experience on the Israel Seminar in an interview with The Bell.
Posted on December 29, 2016
Ryan Wilkens ’15 fell in love with Costa Rica during his junior year at Gordon, when he spent a semester in San Jose for the Latin American Studies Program. Now he is six months into his two-year Peace Corps term, teaching English at an elementary school.