Worship: Thursday, June 19 at 7:30p Eastern Time at Grace Mennonite Church, Pandora, Ohio.
- Theme: Wisdom from our Anabaptist History
- Speaker: Perry Bush
- Offering for Lima Mennonite Church Haitian Ministry
Worship: Friday, June 20, 1:40p Eastern Time in Marbeck Center
- Theme: Wisdom from our Churches Today
- Storytelling: Each congregation to bring a symbolic object that represents something the Spirit is doing among them right now.
- Offering for Central District Conference
- Communion
Worship: Saturday, June 21, 8:30a Eastern Time in Yoder Recital Hall
- Theme: Wisdom for the Future Church
- Speaker: Melissa Florer-Bixler
Dr. Perry Bush, emeritus professor of history at Bluffton University and Central District Conference historian, will speak on Wisdom from our Anabaptist History.
Bush has published four books including “Peace, Progress and The Professor,” “Rust Belt Resistance: How a Small Community took on Big Oil and Won,” “Dancing with the Kobzar: Bluffton College and Mennonite Higher Education,” and “Two Kingdoms, Two Loyalties: Mennonite Pacifism in Modern America”. Bush is currently finishing up a book manuscript on the history of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee and has been giving regular monthly commentary on national and international affairs on WLIO TV, Lima. Bush has also spent time teaching U.S. history as a Fulbright Scholar in Ukraine.
Bush holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from University of California, Master of Arts and Ph.D. in history from Carnegie Mellon University. He was employed at Bluffton for 30 years with four years of previous teaching experience at Philips University in Enid, Okla.
Melissa Florer-Bixler is a writer and pastor with degrees from Duke University and Princeton Theological Seminary. Her ministry at Raleigh Mennonite Church has been featured in The Atlantic and Sojourners. She writes for Geez Magazine, Christian Century, and Anabaptist World, among others. She is the author of Fire by Night: Finding God in the Pages of the Old Testament. She lives with her husband and three children in Raleigh, North Carolina.
