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The Alumni Committee of Conrad Grebel University College is pleased to announce the selection of Larry Willms as this year’s recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Service award. Larry provides an inspirational example of following an interesting life path. "He provides Grebel graduates with a prime example of how one can follow their passions and use their education to make a difference not only in their own back yard but in the broader community and around the world. This type of intentional living fits well with Grebel’s mission to seek wisdom, nurture faith, and pursue justice and peace in service to church and society," said Wendy Cressman Zehr, Alumni Committee Chair.

A lifetime of persistent and meticulous research into the lives and family histories of Amish Mennonites has been donated to the Mennonite Archives of Ontario at Conrad Grebel University College in Waterloo. Lorraine Roth first became intrigued with genealogy as a teenager in the 1940s, and spent the ensuing decades reading and corresponding widely. She even travelled to Europe to unearth archival documents and taught herself to read old German script.

“Sponsor debates on peace issues.”  “Promote international peace through music.” “Become a peace and technology centre—mapping where peace is vulnerable in our world today.”  “Display peace art in the gallery.”  “Form research teams that produce effective peace-building practices in our schools.” “Study the environment as a peace issue.” “Host visiting peace advocates from the global church.”

Grebel Professor Jeremy Bergen is the Resource Person for Mennonite Church Manitoba's Fall Leadership Seminar on October 26th, 2012. Speaking about “The Holy Spirit in the Anabaptist-Mennonite Story,” this Religious Studies and Theology professor will to talk about how we, in contemporary churches, understand our identity as Anabaptists. 

Unfolding over two Wednesday lunches, Dean Jim Pankratz has been leading discussions that explore theological and practical dimensions of our contemporary interaction with people of other faiths.

This concert hopes to bring further courage, strength, joy and healing to Lydia Herrle, whose parents James and Michelle Herrle own the famed Herrles Country Farm Market on Erb Street between Waterloo and St. Agatha.

Kitchener resident Patty Dorsey was at a crossroads in life. After raising five children and working with mentally challenged individuals for twenty years, Dorsey needed a change in direction. At the encouragement of her husband, she returned to school as a student in Social Development Studies and Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS). Dorsey felt like life was perfect. However, a year later, her husband was diagnosed with cancer and passed away within eight months.

Steve Thomas was a victim of bullying throughout his childhood and youth. Although filled with guilt from his pacifist Mennonite upbringing, Thomas was driven to fight back against his tormentors, all the while wishing for a better way.

The second-annual Conrad Grebel Peace Camp has just finished another action-packed week with more speakers, field trips and activities connecting youth to neighbourhoods across Waterloo region. This summer, which brought together young people from all over the tri-cities, involved such exciting projects as making recyclable monsters, fashioning a trash bag slip ‘n slide and helping cultivate a community garden and a mural at the Working Centre and Sunnydale Community Centre, respectively.

WATERLOO, ON --  Calling youth 11-14 to make memories that will last a life time at the second annual Conrad Grebel Peace Camp!  This week long Day Camp, starting on July 30, is action-packed with exciting new field trips and camp games that will compel youth to inspired lives, strengthen ties and make peace happen all over Waterloo region.