2010 CALENDAR Illinois Mennonite Heritage Center
and Illinois Mennonite Historical and Genealogical Society
Event
Scheduled Date
IMHC Hours
Regular Open Hours Fridays & Saturdays, 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.; Sundays 1:30-4:30 p.m. To schedule a tour for another time, contact us at 309-367-2551 or imhcmtco.com.
"Remember Me"
Friendship Quilt Exhibit
IMHC Gallery's 2010 Quilt Display opens July 2, 2010. It includes a wide variety of quilts spanning over a century of Friendship quilts. One welcomes a bride to her husband's community; another shows 240 names. All include stories of relationships and community. Twelve different Illinois locations and two other states are represented. We thank members and friends of IMHGS who loaned half of the quilts for this exhibit. Included is "Lizzie's Friendship Coverlet" covered in the lead article of IMH Quarterly Spring 2010 issue. The quilt from Hopedale reported discovered in 2007 Pennsylvania is shown as well.
Illinois Mennonite Women Brunch
Saturday, October 23, 9:30 a.m.
Speaker: Pam Gray "Going to the Bahamas Isn't Always a Vacation!" Pam and her husband, John Gray - current pastor at East Peoria Mennonite Church - spent 4 years living on a 32-ft. sailboat and doing church ministry in the Bahamas. Pam will tell the exciting story of their beach ministry.
IMHGS Annual Business Meeting
Saturday, October 30, 10:00 a.m.
Fall Program
Escape to Australia: A Jewish-Mennonite Family's Flight to Down Under, 1938-41
Much of Mennonite history is the story of migrations in search of lands where Mennonites, and also the Amish & Hutterites, could worship in peace. They fled to North and South America, but no one ever went to Australia. This flight story also includes a brief discussion of the Holocaust, when the Nazis tried to exterminate the Jews, and of anti-Semitism in other parts of the world.
