Mar. 14 or 15
Grandparent and Grandchild Days at Hidden Acres Mennonite Camp, New Hamburg. Same activities each day. For more information, call 519-625-8602 or e-mail info@hiddenacres.ca.
Grandparent and Grandchild Days at Hidden Acres Mennonite Camp, New Hamburg. Same activities each day. For more information, call 519-625-8602 or e-mail info@hiddenacres.ca.
Benjamin Eby Lecture with Troy Osborne. “The bottle, the dagger and the ring: Church discipline and Dutch Mennonite identity in the 17th century” in the Chapel at Conrad Grebel University College, Waterloo, at 7:30 p.m.
“The Power of Partnership” dinner and evening with Stephen Lewis sponsored by MCC Ontario at St. George Banquet Hall, Waterloo, 6 p.m. More info at powerofpartnership2016.ca.
“Jingle Dress” film and story circle, part of MCC Ontario’s response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, at Bloomingdale Mennonite Church. For more info go to mcco.ca/events.
New exhibit at the Mennonite Archives of Ontario at Conrad Grebel University College, Waterloo: “Conchies speak: Ontario Mennonites in Alternative Service.”
Sawatsky Lecture with Sir James MacMillan at Conrad Grebel at 7:30 p.m. (grebel.ca/Sawatsky).
Vineland United Mennonite Church celebrates its 80th anniversary with a homecoming weekend. More details to follow.
Low German Networking Conference in Leamington.
Low German Networking Conference in Aylmer.
MCC meat canning in Elmira.
MCC Meat canning in Leamington.
Fundraising breakfast for MCC Elmira meat canning.
The Music of James MacMillan at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, Kitchener at 3 p.m. For tickets go to grebel.ca/Sawatsky.
Sawatsky Lecture with Sir James MacMillan at Conrad Grebel at 7:30 p.m. (grebel.ca/Sawatsky).
MCC Heifer Sale in Listowel.
Bechtel Lecture with Dr. Janneken Smucker, “Unexpected intersections: Amish, Mennonite, and Hmong Textiles and the Question of Authenticity,” in the Great Hall, Conrad Grebel University College at 7 p.m. (grebel.ca/Bechtel).
Bechtel Lecture dinner with Dr. Janneken Smucker, “Abstract Art or Country Craft: The Quilts of the Amish” at 6:30 p.m. Contact Alison Enns (519) 885-0220 x 24217 or aenns@uwaterloo.ca for tickets.
C. Henry Smith Scholar Lecture with Dr. Rebecca Janzen, “Minorities in Mexico: Mennonites and the 21st-Century State,” in Schlegel Community Education Room, Conrad Grebel University College (grebel.ca/events).
“As the Women Sew: Community Quilts of Mampuján, Colombia” art exhibit at the Grebel Gallery, Conrad Grebel University College (grebel.ca/events).
Vineland United Mennonite Church celebrates its 80th anniversary with a homecoming weekend. More details to follow.
13th-annual Epicurean Hootenany in support of MCC and hearing impaired children, at the Conrad Centre, Kitchener. Appetizers at 6 p.m.; singing at 7 p.m., with a dinner buffet and dessert to follow. For more information, visit mcco.ca/events.
Evangelical Anabaptist (EVANA) Network preview weekend at Maple View Mennonite Church, Wellesley. Visit evananetwork.org for more information and to register.
Pax Christi Chorale and Menno Singers present “A Cappella Masterworks,” featuring Josef Rheinberger’s “Mass in E Flat”; (30) at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, Kitchener, at 7:30 p.m.; (1) at Grace Church on the Hill, Toronto, at 3 p.m. For tickets, e-mail boxoffice@paxchristichorale.org.
Menno Singers present “Bach and his Contemporaries” with soloists and the Nota Bene Baroque Players, at St. Peters Lutheran Church, Kitchener, at 7:30 p.m.
“Glorious baroque: Music for trumpet and organ,” at First United Church, Waterloo, at 2:30 p.m. Featuring Jan Overduin, organ, and John Thiessen, baroque trumpet. For more information, call 519-699-5362.