Kerry Bush, daughter of Perry and Elysia Bush of Bluffton, is participating in a cross-cultural experience in Bolivia, May 7-25. She and other Bluffton University students will be visiting development projects of Mennonite Central Committee and interacting with schools, an orphanage and a day care center. Students will spend several days in the Andes Mountains in La Paz, the capital city.
Bush is a senior at Bluffton, where she is majoring in graphic design. She is a graduate of Bluffton High School.
Move to Willow Ridge allows renovations at Mennonite Memorial Home. That's the headline on the April-May copy of "The Visioneer." The publication is a project update for MHCO's New Vision campaign.
Icon viewers may read the publication, which is an attachment at the bottom of this story.
Pastor Pieter Reid, Outreach to Muslims Coordinator in North America for the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, and his wife, Marlys, will be guest speakers at the Ohio Circuit’s Lutheran Women’s Missionary Society Rally at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, Jenera, on Saturday, April 27.
The Rally will begin at 9:30 a.m.
Pastor Reid served as a missionary to Indonesia for 20 years and will be speaking on “Bringing the Gospel to Muslims.” Marlys taught in WELS Lutheran Schools as well as the Jakarta International School.
Here's tthe Bluffton University arts and events calendar for May. Events are free and open to the public unless noted otherwise.
May 2 May Day Musical: “Songs for a New World,” 7:30 p.m., Yoder Recital Hall. Tickets, $13 for adults and $5 for all students, are available online at http://tickets.bluffton.edu or from 4-7 p.m. weekdays at the box office in the Sommer Center for Health and Fitness Education.
Amanda Bartel, a first-year Bluffton University student from Iowa City, Iowa, is this year's recipient of the Mennonite Brethren Historical Commission archival internship.
"We are very pleased to award Amanda the archival internship," said commission chair Don Isaac. "We hope this will be a rich experience for her, and provide insights for the commission as we document and communicate the story of God's work in our lives."
The Children's Choir at St. John Mennonite Church, Pandora, will present the musical "Blast Off! Discovering the God of Creation," twice on Sunday, April 28. Performances are at 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.
Nearly 65 youth are involved in the production. The church is located at 15988 Road 4, Pandora.
The story takes place in a little girl's dream the night before going to a space camp. In the dream Rudy and her two siblings find themselves in a space shuttle flying through the atmosphere.
Bluffton Hospital Auxiliary will hold a Spring Step Shoes and Miche purse with changing shells and handles shopping spree from Monday, April 29 to Thursday, May 2.
The sale provides shoppers with special discounts.
The sale is in the hospital conference room, with the following hours:
Monday, April 29 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Tuesday, April 30 8 a.m.-4 p.m.
Wednesday, May 1 9 a.m. -11 a.m.; noon-2 p.m.
Thursday, May 2 8 a.m.-11 a.m.
The Bluffton Tree Commission will celebrate Arbor Day at 10 a.m., Saturday, April 27, in a
planting at the village park to honor Bluffton's men's and women's garden clubs. The event is open to the public.
In other news the Tree Commission has identified approximately 15 street trees that need to be replaced.
Bluffton University will mark its annual May Day weekend May 2-5 with traditional alumni reunions, student activities and graduation events, including the 100th edition of the Maypole dance with which alumni are familiar.
The dance features 16 first-year students who wear colorful costumes and dance in pairs around the Maypole, weaving streamers together. This year’s performance, part of the 11 a.m. May Day ceremony Saturday, May 4, on the Centennial Hall lawn, adds a ninth couple of “legacy” students, who have longstanding family ties to Bluffton.
