2021 Classes

 Adult Education Committee

The Adult Education Committee offered classes in 2021 from January 3 to March 21 during the 10:50 to 11:40 hour by zoom. After March 21 we offered the classes in person and by zoom.

Facilitators are in parentheses.

• Fidelity, by Wendell Berry (Carmen Shelly)
• Girl in Reverse, by Barbara Stuber (Dale Graham)
• European Mennonites and the Holocaust, edited by Mark Jantzen (Eric Jantzen & Dave Bluford)
• Something Beautiful Happened, by Yvette Manessis Corporon (Clif Hostetler) 
• "Empathy, Altruism, Compassion,” podcasts (Carmen Shelly)
• Community Building Time, (pastors)
• "Lamentations and KC Housing,” (Phil Rhoads)
• Inspired by Rachel Held Evans (Carmen Shelly)

From January 3 through March 21 there was a second Zoom meeting that met at 8:30AM. Facilitators were Clif Hostetler and Leroy Seat.

Books covered in the early class included the following:

• The Upswing, by Robert D. Putnam (carried over from December 2020) 
• The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump, by Ronald J. Sider Transcendent Kingdom, by Yaa Gyasi
• Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief, by David Kessler
• Several sessions were devoted to issues of death and grief with no specific book.

 

Committee members: David Bluford, Dan Duncan, Kenn Goertz, Dale Graham, Clif Hostetler, Ed Neufeld, Carmen Shelly

Respectfully submitted by Dale Graham