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Rod and Lorna Sawatsky Visiting Scholar
Friday, February 8, 2013 - 7:00 pm
Featuring Gerald Gerbrandt
Where the Church Thinks: The Role of the Christian Scholar
Conrad Grebel University College Great Hall, 140 Westmount Road N, Waterloo, ON

THIS LECTURE HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER. The lecture will be recorded and available Friday evening on this page. 

PARAGUAY PRIMEVAL by Carol Ann Weaver is a musical work featuring stories of Mennonites who fled to Paraguay from Russian and Canada in the 1920s and beyond.  This January 2013 Manitoba tour takes this music to some of the very people who were born in Paraguay but have moved back to Canada.  It is the hope that their stories will be thus celebrated.

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.

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.

Courage for Lydia – a Noon Hour Concert for Lydia Herrle

music by Waterloo composers
Carol Ann Weaver and Joanne Bender

Wednesday, Oct. 31^st, 2012, 12:30 Noon,
Conrad Grebel Chapel
Free concert – all are welcome

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.