{"id":42926,"date":"2019-08-21T10:22:51","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T14:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=42926"},"modified":"2020-08-25T13:52:43","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T17:52:43","slug":"a-dispatch-from-cape-town-students-share-from-the-south-africa-cross-cultural","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2019\/a-dispatch-from-cape-town-students-share-from-the-south-africa-cross-cultural\/","title":{"rendered":"A dispatch from Cape Town: Students share from the South Africa cross-cultural"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

91短视频 students scattered across the globe on summer cross-culturals to Mexico, Puerto Rico, Washington D.C.<\/a> and South Africa. The cross-cultural experience has been a key component of 91短视频\u2019s core curriculum for more than 30 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more news coverage of 2019 summer cross-culturals.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s a post from students serving as the week’s “communications team” during the South Africa crosscultural<\/a>, led by Andrew and Karen Suderman. Andrew<\/a> is professor of theology and Karen<\/a> director of 91短视频’s Intensive English Program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

From 2009\u201316, the Sudermans served as Mennonite Church Canada Witness Workers in South Africa. They lived in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa and helped to coordinate the Anabaptist Network in South Africa (ANiSA). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A window at the Regina Mundi Catholic Church in Soweto.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The crosscultural focused on the country’s legacy of colonialism and apartheid and the church\u2019s role in the pursuit of peace, justice, and reconciliation, with visits to Johannesburg, Soweto, Pretoria, Cape Town, Pietermaritzburg and Nelspruit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In excerpts from the original blog post<\/a>, the group named high points of “growing together as a group and being unified through experiences and desire for change and justice, laughter and conversation around meals, and feeling alive and grateful to be in South Africa.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the group’s shared learnings:<\/p>\n\n\n\n