Elmira Mennonite Church, 58 Church Street West, Elmira
Event type:
Public meeting
ELAWS was the first program of its type in the world, a model of how previously unheard of adaptations can be made by both a public school board and a religious minority.
Great Hall, Conrad Grebel University College, 140 Westmount Road N, Waterloo, ON
Event type:
Public meeting
How did you arrive here? What is your history on this land?
Join the Mennonite Historical Society of Ontario for a day of conversation about Mennonite settler stories and Indigenous histories.
Program
10:00 - OpeningWelcome and AnnouncmentsLand Acknowledgement - Mennonite Historical Society of OntarioIndigenous greetings - Led by Mim Harder
Mennonite Historical Society of OntarioAnnual Meeting
Guest speaker: Aileen Friesen
"Searching for an Identity: Mennonites in Revolutionary Russia"
Dr. Aileen Friesen is a scholar of Russian history, with an emphasis on religion in the Russian empire. She is the inaugural recipient of the Fretz Fellowship at Conrad Grebel University College.
Photo: Mennonite students in Leningrad
Community Room, 50 Kent Avenue, Kitchener (Mennonite Central Committee Ontario, 2nd floor)
Event type:
Public meeting
In 1917, Ontario Mennonite women were encouraged to "take hold" of addressing needs in their communities and supporting missionary efforts by forming sewing circles.
Theatre of the Beat presents Yellow Bellies, an historical drama with live music, highlighting the experiences and public response to Mennonite conscientious objectors during the Second World War, written by Johnny Wideman and Rebecca Steiner.
Performances: 2:00 pm and 7:00 pm
Join us for an afternoon of learning about the food, history, culture and enterprises of the Old Order Amish. The schedule includes an Amish meal, a talk and tours of Old Order Amish businesses.
Essex Kent Mennonite Historical Association, 31 Pickwick Drive, Leamington ON
Event type:
Public meeting
Join us for a bus trip to historical sites in Essex County, Ontario. Mennonites first settled here in 1926, and developed a thriving community. In 2015 there is a widely diverse Mennonite community ranging from Low German Old Colony Mennonites to highly assimilated Mennonites that are part of Mennonite Church Canada or the Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches.
Please join us for a book launch of Sam Steiner's In Search of Promised Lands: a Religious History of Mennonites in Ontario. This wide-ranging story of Mennonite migration, theological diversity, and interaction with other Christian streams is the first comprehensive history of Mennonites in Ontario since L. J. Burkholder's A Brief History of Mennonites in Ontario published in 1935.
