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This spring, Waterloo Region elementary school students will be discovering something normal and radical all at once: peace and justice. Peace Camp, a peace education organization at Conrad Grebel University College, will facilitate peace-building and conflict resolution workshops with elementary school students for the third consecutive year. School participation numbers have increased each year, and in May and June alone, 121 classrooms will participate in Peace Camp workshops.

Musicians in Waterloo Region have joined together to raise funds for earthquake victims in Nepal.

Under Grebel prof Mark Vuorinen's baton, the Grand Philharmonic Choir, together with many community partners (including Grebel students,) is organizing a free concert Sunday May 24th, 4 p.m. at St. Peter's Lutheran Church, 49 Queen St. N., Kitchener.

At the concert, audience members will be invited to donate to Mennonite Central Committee's Nepal earthquake relief fund. The federal government will match any donations made at the concert.

The Conrad Grebel University College Board of Governors is pleased to announce the hiring of Maisie Sum as Assistant Professor of Music, in a tenure track position commencing July 1, 2015.

After its April meeting, the Conrad Grebel University College Board of Governors approved the hiring of Jennifer Ball as Assistant Professor in Peace and Conflict Studies(PACS), commencing July 1, 2015.

“Convocation is a time to celebrate!” With this announcement, President Susan Schultz Huxman welcomed a record number of guests sharing the day with 165 graduating students.

By Fred W. Martin

After its April meeting, the Conrad Grebel University College Board of Governors was pleased to announce the four year extension of the term of President to Susan Schultz Huxman, commencing July 1, 2015.

Conrad Grebel University College will be offering an intensive Theological Studies course on “Baptism: Ecumenical Perspectives,” taught by John Rempel, May 19-22, 25-29.  The church of Christ can’t agree whether infants can be baptized or only those who confess a personal faith. The biggest reason for this is that each side has a different view of the church.

Family reunions at the old homestead, prime ministers glad-handing across the countryside and nurses serving during the Vietnam War. These are just a few of the photographs found in the new Mennonite Archival Image Database (MAID), giving the public access to photographs of Mennonite life in Canada and around the world. Seven Canadian Mennonite archives contributed 80,000 archival descriptions to the new site at archives.mhsc.ca. Over 10,000 of these records are already accompanied by scanned images.

This past weekend (March 13-15) two prominent choral groups premiered works by Conrad Grebel University College faculty member Timothy Corlis.

Press Release by Harold Press

New history of Mennonites and Amish in Ontario published
Author/archivist Samuel J. Steiner produces vast volume

MENNOMEDIA, KITCHENER, Ontario, and HARRISONBURG, Va.—Conestoga wagons carried Ontario Mennonite settlers to the tangled forests of the Niagara Peninsula in the late 1700s. Since then, their descendants and more recent arrivals to the hamlets and cities of Ontario have sought promised lands of faithful living, peaceful communities, and religious freedom.