Saturday, September 27 Family focus with lots of fun activities for all ages, including games, interactive exhibits and, of course delicious food.
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IMHGS Annual Meeting and Fall program.
Saturday, November 1, 10:00 AM
"The Illinois Mennonites, Five Centuries old, and the Original Anabaptist Impulse is still Visible"
Speaker, Dr. Leonard Gross, a native of the Franconia Mennonite Conference in eastern Pennsylvania, and graduate of Goshen College, studied theology, ethics and church history at U. of Chicago and U. of Hamburg, Germany. He received a B.D. from Goshen Biblical Seminary in 1959 and, in 1968, as a Fulbright scholar concentrating in church history, general history, and New Testament, he received his Ph.D. from U. of Basel, Switzerland.
He was Executive Secretary of the Historical Committee of the Mennonite Church 1970 -1990; editor of Mennonite Historical Bulletin,
director of Mennonite denominational Archives and Historical Research Program at Goshen, Indiana.
Dr. Gross is author of The Golden Years of the Hutterites
and co-author of Colonial Germantown Mennonites
and Selected Hutterian Documents in Translation, 1542-1654.
His numerous articles on Amish, Hutterites and Mennonites have appeared over the decades in North American and European scholarly journals. He currently serves on the executive board of the Mennonite Historical Society. He and his wife live in Goshen, Indiana.
