Goshen College News

They've come a long way from east L.A., and on Nov. 21 the enduring Chicano band Los Lobos brings its unique sound to Goshen.

As churches and individual Christians around the world prepare to celebrate Christ's birth, Goshen College is again offering an online spiritual resource to help believers make time and space in their hearts and minds to welcome Advent and celebrate Christmas.

Tickets for the sixth annual "A Festival of Carols," Goshen College's holiday music extravaganza, go on sale to the public on Friday, Nov.

Beulah Gonzalez is addicted to working with children. That's the explanation the 86-year-old Argentine woman gives for why, 26 years after "retirement," she still volunteers all day, every day in a kindergarten classroom at Chandler Elementary School.

Mike Weber is the pastor of an inner city church where no one attends. Regardless of its abysmal popularity, though, death is denied to the house of empty pews because of a radio show the leaders must produce each week.

Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. Location: Cost: $45, $40, $25 For more information or tickets: Call 535-7566 or e-mail welcomecenter@goshen.edu Web site: www.loslobos.org GOSHEN, Ind.

After innumerable years of discussion among individuals and attracting national media attention late last year, Goshen College is considering the inclusion of an instrumental version of the national anthem before select sporting events.

Dating from the 16th century, the earliest name in English for what is now regarded as a museum was "cabinet of curiosities." The term refers to a room in a wealthy person's home that displayed the owner's collection of exotic, or "curious," items.

The stage has been converted into a huge, empty swimming pool for Goshen College's fall mainstage play, "Big Love," written by Charles Mee and directed by Michelle Milne.

"Messiah," by George Frederic Handel, performed by the Goshen College Choirs & Orchestra Date and time: Saturday, Nov.

Peter Illyn understands that the effects of climate change are often hard to detect from Elkhart County.

Sunday, Nov. 8 at 7 p.m. Location: Cost: $10 per person. Tickets available at the Welcome Center, 535-7566. Event sponsors: New Perspectives for Faith of Goshen and the Goshen College Institutional Advancement Division Web sites: www.anthonybrownbaritone.net & www.peacingittogether.org GOSHEN, Ind.

Painter and printmaker Nicholas Hill, from Granville, Ohio, is professor of art at Otterbein College.

Three students at Goshen College are turning bracelets into benefits to aid overseas causes.

Environmental concerns took center stage in Goshen Saturday as members of Goshen College and the surrounding community joined together for a global call to action on climate change.

Community School of the Arts concert: J. Austin Wulliman, violin; Mary Rose Jordan, piano; Laura Weiner, horn Date and time: Saturday, Oct.

Exhibit: "A Cabinet of Curiosities" Dates: Oct. 25 to Dec. 11, 2009 Opening reception: Sunday, Oct.

Goshen College students are participating in 350.org's International Day of Climate Change on Saturday, Oct.

The last time David Rumsey competed in the Run for the Schools, he was a 12-year-old Hoover Elementary School student.

Area colleges don't know if a widespread flu outbreak will take place this year, but if it does, they're ready.