Exploring Food, Faith and Mennonite Traditions
BY CAT SHANNON
How does someone eat like a Mennonite? Find out when Marlene Epp, a professor from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, presents a talk on Mennonites and food, focusing on what food traditions tell us about faith and culture. She will speak on Thursday, Oct. 2, at 7 p.m. at the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, 400 Campus Road, Elizabethtown.
Epp, a Mennonite historian, is the author of “Eating Like a Mennonite: Food and Community Across Borders.”
“The book is about the role of food in religious group identity, ritual and service, drawing on her research in Canada, the Democratic Republic of Congo, India, Mexico and Paraguay,” said Steven Nolt, director of the Young Center and a history professor at the college. He
BY CAT SHANNON
Bible2School will kick off its new season in Elizabethtown on Tuesday, Sept. 30, and this year, a fourth-grade class has been added to the program.
Classes will be offered on Tuesdays for second-graders from East High Elementary School and on Wednesdays beginning Oct. 1 for third- and fourth-graders from Bear Creek Elementary School.
“Bible2School is a program that provides free elective Bible classes
noted that at her talk, Epp will discuss the role of foodways in Anabaptist communities, past and present, and highlight the complex intersection of religion and culture in a global context.
“For example, food and what people eat becomes a part of how they think about themselves as they immigrate from one continent or country to another and how they talk about their history,” he explained. “For religious communities, food is also central to service - people collect money for food relief or ship food to areas experiencing famine as part of their sense of extending compassion to others. In the Christian tradition, eating and drinking is woven into the rituals of communion, and in the Brethren tradition, the Love Feast includes an entire, albeit simple, meal.”
Churches often compile and
Rotary Fall Festival Will Deliver Family Fun
BY CAT SHANNON
“The Rotary Fall Festival is a great opportunity for families to enjoy outdoor fun and learn more about the important organizations that help support the Lancaster community,” said Bill Weik, treasurer of the Rotary Club of Lancaster Sunrise. “They can see firsthand the positive results from organizations working together.”
The festival will be held on Sunday, Sept. 28, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Aberdeen Acres, 495 Mark Drive, Elizabethtown.
The Uptown Band will provide live music from noon to 6 p.m. A kids’ area and mechanical bull riding will be offered during the festival.
“The Kids Zone is a combination of items from Big Bright Bounces in Elizabethtown - bounce house and 90-foot obstacle course,” Weik shared. “There will also be pony rides for the kids.”
to elementary children attending public school during the school day,” explained Arlene Heistand, treasurer. “Trained volunteers engage the children in lively worship and Bible stories. Children and volunteers discuss how they can apply the Bible lessons in their lives and pray together.”
Students are bussed from school to the host location, the one-room Rissers Schoolhouse, located on the property of Rissers Mennonite Church, 8360 Elizabethtown Road, Elizabethtown. Classes take place
Hachet and ax throwing will be featured from noon to 5 p.m., and members of the Millersville University equestrian club will be on-site to provide riding demonstrations at 3 p.m.
A silent auction will run from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., and the event will feature a live auction portion beginning at 4:30 p.m.
“We will have a food truck all day, and kids’ and adult beverages are provided by Altana,” Weik said. “Lori’s Lattes will also be on-site.”
This is the club’s sixth fall festival, he noted, explaining that the event began during the pandemic after the club lost its two major fundraisers at the time
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The second-grade curriculum focuses on the Old Testament, while third-graders learn about the New Testament. Fourth-grade students will focus on discipleship.
“Our first full year of the Bible2School program for the Elizabethtown district with classes for secondand third-grade students was 2016-2017 school year,” shared head teacher Karen Olweiler.
Bible with their friends.”
She added that Bible2School is seeking volunteers, especially to fill specific roles.
Fall Afresh Will Feature Family Fun
Fall Afresh, an event by The Well Ministries, will be held on Saturday, Sept. 27, from noon to 6 p.m. at the Elizabethtown Fairgrounds, 900 E. High St. The free family-friendly community event, being held at the site for the third year, will feature food trucks, displays by several local businesses
and vendors. Free events will include face painting, pumpkin painting, a hay bale toss with prizes, live music, hay wagon rides and a bounce house. For more details, visit the “Fall Afresh 2025” Facebook event page. Those with questions may email fallafreshevent@ gmail.com.
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Increased interest in the program led the organizers to expand to fourth grade this year.
“Since we had secondand third-grade classes last year, we had students ask at the end of the year if we were going to have a fourth-grade class because they were going to be fourth-graders in the 2025-2026 year,” shared Cindy Seitz, president. “We assured them we would work on it, and with the cooperation of the Elizabethtown schools, this has become a reality.”
Participants can expect to have fun while growing in faith, Seitz remarked.
“The Bible2School program is safe, Christ-centered, age-appropriate, relevant, relational and fun,” she said. “The love for the children is evident in our Bible2School volunteers. We want this to be a highlight of each student’s week and that they will want to return each week to create lasting relationships, to enjoy more fun and learn more about the
“We are looking for some volunteers to ride along on the bus to and from the elementary schools and a business partner to serve on our Community Team,” Seitz said, noting that a good volunteer loves to share Christ with others, shows genuine love and care for the students and their families and demonstrates Christ-like behaviors while teaching and mentoring students.
The program also seeks donations to provide curriculum, advertising, supplies and more.
To learn more about Bible2School, families are invited to a meet-andgreet drop-in on Thursday, Sept. 25, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Rissers Schoolhouse. Attendees will have the opportunity to meet teachers and volunteers and see the space where children will meet for the classes.
“We would appreciate your prayers for the program, the volunteers, the children and their families, the Elizabethtown School District and the Community Team as we start the new Bible2School program this fall,” Seitz said.
To learn more about Bible2School or to make a donation, visit www.bible 2school.com or call 717940-1447. Information forms are also available in both school offices.
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The Elizabethtown/ Mount Joy Christian Women’s Connection invites area ladies to its “Plants Are My Soil Mates” brunch on Thursday, Oct. 2, at 9 a.m. at Gus’s Keystone Restaurant, 1050 W. Main St., Mount Joy. Shelby and Neveah Hilt from Mount Joy will present a program about succulents. The musician will be vocalist
Joselyn Gehman from Elizabethtown.
Theresa McGowan from Chesapeake, Va., will be the speaker. She will share, ”From Brokenness to Joy” - how to be free from fear and secrets. Prepaid reservations must be received by Friday, Sept. 26. For more information or to make a reservation, call Sandy at 717-580-5421.
Brethren Disaster Relief Auction Posted
The 48th annual Brethren Disaster Relief Auction will be held at the Lebanon Valley Expo Center and Fairgrounds, 80 Rocherty Road, Lebanon, on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 26 and 27, beginning at 9 a.m.
The auction, in cooperation with the Atlantic Northeast and Southern Districts of the Church of the Brethren, began in 1977 and has provided nearly $20 million in disaster relief to victims of natural disasters both in the U.S. and internationally. Funds raised by the auction pay for emergency supplies for disaster victims and
support volunteer disaster relief trips throughout the year. In the past few years, funds and volunteers from the auction have helped immediate relief efforts and long-term cleanup and rebuilding efforts from disasters such as earthquakes in Haiti and tornadoes and floods in Pennsylvania.
Separate auctions will include a main auction, a children’s auction, a quilt auction, a theme basket auction, two silent auctions, a heifer auction, a coin auction, a sporting goods auction, and a pole barn
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sell cookbooks as fundraisers, he said, but their contents also tell us a lot about how church members live day to day and what they value.
“There is also a gendered dynamic to a lot of foodways, insofar as serving church meals was often one way that women took an active part in planning church activities,” Nolt said, noting that these are themes found in Epp’s book, although she might not discuss them all at her talk.
He also noted that the title of Epp’s book is a playful one.
“Epp doesn’t literally mean that there is a unique Mennonite way of eating,” he said. “Rather, she once saw a newspaper article that referred to ‘eating like a Mennonite’ and it made her wonder what the writer meant, and the questions it provoked sent her down a path of studying food and faith communities.”
Reading the book raised a bunch of inter -
esting questions for Nolt, focused on history and community that traditional history routes don’t often address.
“Eating is part of our everyday existence and a core part of anyone’s culture,” he said. “Thinking about food and how we eat is an important part of understanding any community, and in that regard, Epp and her book have a lot to say about any community, not just Mennonites. Mennonites may be her primary case examples, but the kinds of issues she looks at are part of every community and group. Her comparative international examples highlight that.”
The Young Center invited Epp to speak after her book earned the Dale Brown Book Award, given by the center to the best book in Anabaptist or Pietist Studies published in the last three years. The Young Center is a scholarly research and interpretive center at Elizabethtown
College that fosters the study and understanding of ideas and groups stemming from the Anabaptist and Pietist religious traditions of the Church of the Brethren and related groups.
“The center has been around for almost 40 years - we were started in 1986 - and we hold educational events and exhibits, provide internship opportunities for students, engage in research, host visiting scholars from around the country and world and more,” Nolt said.
For the first time in 10 years, the Young Center will host a community field trip this fall as well, traveling to Gettysburg to learn about the experience of Brethren families during the Civil War battle there. The field trip will be held on Saturday, Oct. 18, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The day will begin at Gettysburg Church of the Brethren with a presentation by historian Steve Longenecker.
“Portions of the battlefield in 1863 were
Brethren farms south and west of the village of Gettysburg,” Nolt said. “We will also visit the historic Marsh Creek Brethren Meetinghouse that still stands on the edge of the battlefield.”
Participants will also tour Seminary Ridge Museum, learning about the battle’s impact on civilians, churches and the wider community.
There is a charge to participate in the field trip, and the fee includes lunch and the museum entrance fee. People are encouraged to carpool to Gettysburg for the event. A free bus will depart from the Young Center parking lot at 8:30 a.m. Registration for the field trip and for the bus is due by Monday, Oct. 13. To register, visit www .etown.edu/youngctr/ events or call the Young Center at 717-361-1470.
Reservations are not required for Epp’s talk at the Young Center. Parking is available in a lot along Campus Road.
auction. The two-day event may have as many as five auctions taking place at once.
Children’s activities this year will include the children’s auction, specializing in new items for children to be bid on only by children. A children’s store will offer quality used items at reasonable prices, as well as face painting. A balloon artist will create balloon animals for the children. Also available for children, weather permitting, will be free barrel train rides and pony rides, the latter of which will be offered for a nominal donation.
Food options will include Amish soft pretzels and doughnuts, a cafeteria, a
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McBride, Hoffman Win Doubles Match, 8-1
Under the lights, Elizabethtown’s Mason Shaffner gets above Manheim Central’s Brett Sensenig for the header during a 1-0 loss on Tuesday, September 16.
In a 1-0 loss on the road, Elizabethtown’s Isaac MacDerment denies Manheim Central’s Brett Sensenig on this goal attempt on Tuesday, September 16.
Elizabethtown’s JJ McBride (left) and Carly Hoffman (right) defeat Garden Spot’s Xenia Demyantsev and Leah Sauder (8-1) in Blue Ball on Wednesday, September 17.
Bears’ Endy Lara Navarrete gets around Manheim Central’s Noah Weaver during a 1-0 loss on Tuesday, September 16.
At Honeybrook Country Club on Wednesday, September 17, Elizabethtown’s John Flynn shoots an 88 to tie for 18th. golf photo by Bob Diller
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BOSSLER MENNONITE CHURCH: Located at 2021 Bossler Rd., Elizabethtown. Phone: 717-367-5167. Web site: www.bosslermennonite.org Sunday Worship held at 10 am. Preschool: 717537-8192.
CHIQUES METHODIST CHURCH:
1215 E. Main St., Mount Joy. Doug Paglia, Pastor. Worship Service at 9-10 am Children’s Sunday School: 9-10 am. Refreshments & Fellowship: 10-10:30 am. Adult Sunday School at 10:30-11:30 am. Nursery Provided, Handicapped Accessible. For more information, call: 717-653-5175.
CHRIST EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH 75-125 East High Street, Elizabethtown 717-367-2786. Rev. Albert J. Domines, Jr., Sr. Pastor. Rev. Gerald R. Kliner, Jr., Assoc. Pastor. Liturgies of Holy Eucharist Saturday at 6pm and Sunday at 8:15am & 11am. Sunday school for all ages 9:45am Handicapped accessible. Morning Prayer Wednesdays at 8:30am. Visit us online at: www.christlutheran-etown.com
COMMUNITY BIBLE CHURCH: welcomes you to Love God, Love Others, and Reach Out with us! Join us for worship on Sundays at 8:00, 9:30, or 11:00 a.m. We’re located at 331 Anderson Ferry Road in Marietta (off Rt 441 on Rt 772). Learn more at cbcpa.org.
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300 S Spruce St. (corner of S. Spruce & E. Bainbridge) Elizabethtown, PA 17022. You are welcome to join us for Sunday School at 9:00 am and Sunday Worship at 10:00 am - in person or livestreamed on our YouTube Channel. Ph: 717-367-7089 info@etownmennonite.com Visit us online at www.etownmennonite.com
ETOWN GRACE CHURCH, 305 Anchor Rd, Elizabethtown, PA 17022. Dr. Rick A. Clark, Pastor. Sunday: SS and Adult Bible Classes 9 am, Morning Worship 10:15 am. Wed night 6:15-7:45 pm AWANA (Children’s Ministry). Website at etowngrace.com
FLORIN CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN:
You are welcome here! Worship service is at 10:15am Sunday mornings at 815 Bruce Avenue, Mount Joy PA 17552. Now LiveStreaming on YouTube - Search for us @florinchurch For more information, visit us at www.florincob.org Phone: 717-6531202 Email: secretary@florincob.org
GLOSSBRENNER CHURCH: 713 Church St. (located on the corner of Church & Angle Sts.), Mount Joy. Sunday Worship Service: 10:00 am (In-Person or Live Streamed). Nursery Provided, Handicapped Accessible. Sunday School for all ages: 11:15 am. Pastor: Heather Hammel. Church Office: 717-653-5683. "Like" us on Facebook: Glossbrenner Church. www.glossbrenner.net
GRACE COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP CHURCH OF MANHEIM: 1483 N. Colebrook Rd., Manheim. SUNDAYS: Adult Bible Class at 9:30am and Worship Service at 10:30am. Wednesday Evening Prayer is held from 6:30pm-7:30pm For more details, please visit http://www.gcfmanheim.org or call 717-665-7222.
MARY MOTHER OF THE CHURCH (A Roman Catholic Parish): 625 Union School Rd., Mount Joy. Pastor: Rev. Ted Keating. Mass Times: Saturday Vigil 4:30pm, Sunday 8:30 & 11 am; Monday thru Friday 8:30 am. Confessions: Sat 3:30pm. 717-653-4903, visit us online at www.marymotherparish.org
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MAYTOWN CHURCH OF GOD: 14 West Elizabeth St., Maytown. Scott Sweigart, Pastor. All are w0elcome! Sunday Worship Service at 9:00 am. Phone: 717-426-3117. www.maytowncog.org
MILTON GROVE CHURCH: 2026 Cloverleaf Road (located N. of Rt. 283 Rheems/ Elizabethtown Exit) Mount Joy. Pastor: Jamie Pietsch. Join us Sundays at 9:30 am for in-person worship and on Facebook live at www.miltongrovechurch.com
PROCLAMATION PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (PCA): Meeting at Kraybill Mennonite School, 598 Kraybill Church Rd., Mount Joy, PA 17552. Sundays at 10:30am We Welcome You! Visit us online at www.proclamationpca.com
RUHL’S CHURCH: A growing church committed to Christ. Worship on Sunday morning at 8 am for a traditional feel. Sunday School for all ages at 9:15 am., 10:30 am. Worship led by praise band. (Nursery available. Handicap accessible.) For more information, please call 717-665-3400 or visit www.ruhlschurch.org Located at 4810 Elizabethtown Rd, Manheim.
SAINT LUKE EPISCOPAL CHURCH: 209 S. Market St. at Columbia Ave., Mount Joy. Phone: 717-653-4977. Sunday Holy Eucharist at 11 am. Wednesday Morning Prayer at 10 am in the Education Building. Taize Service 1st Sat. of the month at 5 pm. stlukesmountjoy@gmail.com www.stlukesmountjoypa.org Handicap Accessible.
SAINT PAUL’S CHURCH (A united Methodist Congregation): 398 N. Locust Street (North Spruce and Oak Streets), Elizabethtown, PA 17022. Phone:717-367-1889. Sunday Worship: Traditional at 8:30am, Grace Kids (ages 0-12 yrs) at 10:15am, Contemporary 10:15am.Email:office@wearesaintpauls.com Visit us online at: wearesaintpauls.com
ST. MARK’S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: Loving, growing, and sharing JOY through Jesus! Sunday service times: 9 and 10:30 a.m. 27 E. Main St., Mount Joy 717-6535493. www.connectstmarks.com Livestream at facebook.com/ConnectStMarks
TBC BIBLE CHURCH: Together Becoming Christ-like. 5880 School House Rd., Elizabethtown. We are a friendly, family-like atmosphere welcoming you to join us for Sunday school for all ages at 9:30 am & worship at 10:30 am. (jr. church included). Afternoon / evening gatherings meet on various Sundays for prayer, Bible study and fellowship. Wednesday prayer meeting at 7:00pm. Monthly men’s and women’s Bible studies offer an opportunity to grow deeper in the Word and to fellowship with others. tbcbiblechurch.org or call 717-433-7585
THE ENCOUNTER CHURCH: A gathering of imperfect people seeking to know and encounter God. Sunday morning prayer at 9 am & worship at 10 am. 221 N. Front St., Bainbridge. www.encounter-connect.org
WORD OF LIFE CHAPEL: 139 Wickersham Rd., Bainbridge. 717-426-1171 Sunday Service - 10:15 am (Children’s Ministry & Nursery Care Provided). Visit us online at www.wordoflifechapel.org We welcome you!
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McNees Wallace & Nurick announced on Sept. 11 that it has opened the 2026 application cycle for its newly expanded Legal Equity Advancement Program (LEAP), which provides participating businesses with access to legal services and business development opportunities.
McNees is accepting applications for LEAP through Tuesday, Sept. 30.
The program supports underrepresented businesses from economically disadvantaged communities and backgrounds in areas of Pennsylvania and Maryland that McNees regularly serves.
Interested businesses are asked to submit their information through the LEAP portal at www .mcneesleap.com. Qualified applicants will then be invited to submit detailed applications.
LEAP was launched in 2020 to support underrepresented businesses in the communities served by McNees. The program has continued to evolve and expand, helping a total of 34 small, under-
Program To Launch for Mothers of Preschoolers
Catalyst Ministries, 29 S. Market St., Elizabethtown, will launch “Mommy & Me, Play & Learn” for moms in the community and their preschool children, newborn to age 5, on Wednesday, Sept. 24, from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. The group will meet every other Wednesday throughout the school year.
“Mommy & Me, Play & Learn” is a faithbased program to affirm motherhood and model ways for moms to spend time with their children through learning centers, creative activities, songs and stories, as well as enjoy conversations over snacks and coffee/tea time.
For complete details and to register, visit www .catalyst-pa.org/programs.
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due to the shutdown. Since people were permitted to hold outdoor gatherings, the club members pivoted and held a festival the first Saturday in October during the Preakness Stakes.
“We did well and continued it forward,” he noted.
The festival will be held rain or shine, and people are encouraged to bring lawn chairs or blankets.
Along with offering a fun day for families, the fall festival is also a fundraiser for an organization supported by the Rotary Club.
Weik said that since the first fall festival, the club has provided more than $257,000 in support of local initiatives.
“Forty thousand dollars of the proceeds will support the Lancaster County Food Hub’s new Outreach Center,” said Beth Mack, fall festival chair and board member of the Rotary Club of Lancaster Sunrise, directing people to learn more about the project at www.lancasterfoodhub .org. “Proceeds will also support student scholarships, local community grants and international projects.”
Volunteers from the Wittel Farm, which is located directly behind Aberdeen Acres, will be on-site at the festival, sharing how their crops support the Lancaster County Food Hub and encouraging guests to consider volunteering.
“Some of the larger items supported a hot/ cold transport van for Meals on Wheels Lancaster; a van for Off The Streets Lancaster to support getting the homeless into permanent housing; equipment to fully furnish the Bench Mark Program’s Women’s Strength and Fitness Center; literacy projects for Manheim Township School District; and other small projects to support Girls on the Run, Anchor Lancaster, Lancaster Dollars for Higher Learning, Power Packs, KPETS, Arch Street Center, Second Grace in Mount Joy and others.”
He shared that the club also supports projects outside of the local area as well as outside of the country.
“Most notable is our continued support annually to the Budapest Rotary Club - they have been instrumental in assisting with the various needs with Ukraine - as well as Amigos De Honduras, where we have been providing financial support with building schools and clean water initiatives,” he
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GEARS will offer activ ities to the community. Unless otherwise noted, there is a per-person cost, with a discounted rate for residents. To register or for more information, visit www.getintogears.org or call 717-367-0355.
A Father/Son Laserdome Blast will take place on Thursday, Oct. 23, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at the Laser dome, 2050 Auction Road, Manheim. Boys may invite their father, grandfather, or a family friend that is at least 18. The event will include two 30-minute ses sions of laser tag, unlim ited rides, arcade games, and more. Light refresh ments will be provided. The registration deadline is Friday, Oct. 17. A Mother/Son Glow N’ Throw will be
said. “We have a member who goes there annually to support these efforts.”
Weik encourages everyone to come out to the festival for fall fun.
“It’s a great family day for family fun! If they want to be outdoors, relaxed, listen to a great band and have activities all day for kids and adults, they will want to be here,” he said. “There are many live and silent auction items. For example, we have tickets to the Washington Commanders vs. Philadelphia Eagles game, several tickets to Penn State football games, vacations and more. Plus, all the proceeds support a great cause!”
Rotary Club of Lancaster Sunrise meets on Thursdays at Bent Creek
Country Club, 620 Bent Creek Drive, Lititz.
“We are a breakfast club, so the morning starts bright and early at 7 a.m.,” said Weik, who lives in Elizabethtown.
“Our club is open to members all over the county who share the passion of Service Above Self.”
To learn more about the club, visit www.lancaster sunriserotaryofpa.com. Tickets for the fall festival may be purchased ahead of time or at the event. Readers who use the promo code ETOWN and purchase tickets ahead of time will receive a discount on their purchase. There is no admission charge for children age 17 and under. To purchase tickets, visit https://bit .ly/430ImD3.
People enjoy a previous year’s Rotary Fall Festival.