Ed Leonard

President, Bethany College, Kansas
The e-Portfolio is a center-piece of Bethany Pathway as students showcase their Bethany experience, including evidence of learning in and out of the classroom, and present those experiences framed by the four pathways through Bethany College. I share this presentation e-Portfolio as an example and to demonstrate my support of this important initiative. 
Ed Leonard
leonarde@bethanylb.edu
335 E Swensson Street, 
Lindsborg, KS 67456

Global Citizenship

(Global citizenship prepares our graduates to function successfully in a “flattening world,” enabling each graduate to appreciate a world view and to develop the ability and desire to become engaged in global issues.)
 
Earlier I shared that my definition of vocation is the path God calls me where my deep gifts serve my neighbors' deep need.  While we quickly conclude that serving the others' deep need is through servant leadership, which is true, that view is limiting because serving the others' deep need is also through global citizenship. Becoming knowledgeable and informed of global issues also allows us to live out our vocation. For those who know the expression, "When a butterfly flaps its wings in Africa ..."  For those who do not, Google it. :-) 
 

Fall 1976 - International Study at Harlaxton College, Grantham, England

Travel around England and Scotland as well as visits to Athens, Moscow, Paris, and Rome
 
Reflection: 
  1. During this experience I had the opportunity while in the Vatican City to be a participant in Pope Paul XVI's Wednesday Papal Audiences and to attend while in Canterbury, England the consecration of two Bishops of the Church England where Archbishop of Canterbury Donald Coggan celebrated the Mass and former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Michael Ramsey preached.  Additionally, I attended a Sunday Eucharist at St. Paul's Cathedral in London.  I also befriended the former Bishop of Grantham Anthony Otter.  Yet, even with these spiritual touches in deeply holy places and in the presence of religious leaders, I returned home believing that I had found God in the simplest of places - the Italian Chapel outside Kirkwall, Orkney Islands, Scotland.
  2. My roommates and I (all four of us) committed to "not do the American-thing" while at Harlaxton.  Instead of going to the pub in Harlaxton (Gregory Arms) where the Harlaxton students went, we instead traveled to Grantham - about two miles away -  and became regulars at the Blue Pig.  We were accepted - it took time - and became "regulars."  In fact the owners and locals threw us a going-away party at the end of the semester.  At that time, we felt we had immersed ourselves into English culture.

3. As part of immersion we traveled to Skegness - think boardwalk on the coast like Ocean City - and I was taken to visit one of the last bell foundries in England.  While not exciting, they are part of what is England and not visited by many American tourists.


Summer 2008 - Travel with the Bethany College Choir to Germany, Sweden, and Norway

Fall 2009 - Travel to Sweden with visits in Stockholm and Karlstad
 
Fall 2012 - Attended the Sweden-America Bridge Conference, Karlstad, Sweden 




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