Upcoming Events
All events are open to the public, and all are free of charge.
For events in the Bucher Meetinghouse, use “450 Campus Road, Elizabethtown, PA” in your navigation app. Although not an actual physical address, it will place you close to the entrance of the Young Center parking lot. Then use the building’s main entrance—beside the Young Center sign—to access the meetinghouse.
Tuesday, April 7, 2026 • 7 p.m. • Bucher Meetinghouse
KREIDER LECTURE
Analysis of the Interaction between the American Politico-Legal System and the Amish Christian Minority, Using Three Models
Frédérique Green will discuss the interaction between the American government and the Amish minority. Using her archival research and empirical data, which consisted of interviews of 46 people in the judicial and legal spheres as well as Amish leaders, Green offers a new approach for analyzing the interaction between the two entities.
Frédérique Green is a retired teacher with dual French and British citizenship. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham in the UK, where she lives. Green continues to research in her area of expertise because the common law is not static and the Amish communities also evolve.
Thursday, April 30, 2026 • 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. • Young Center, Large Seminar Room
One-Day Seminar
Reassessing the Missional Element of Early Anabaptism and Its Implications for Today
Join the Young Center’s Visiting Fellow Nelson Okanya in examining the core missional aspect of Anabaptism from the perspective of missio Dei, the theological idea that mission is an inherent part of God’s and the church’s nature. Okanya is reconsidering the history and historiography of early Anabaptism and mission and the implications of this history and theology for the church today. Seminar participants will receive in advance a copy of a working paper by Okanya and the seminar will invite dialogue around the themes developed in the paper.
There is no charge to attend the seminar, but registration is required by April 24. Lunch will be provided.
Register by calling the Young Center, 717-361-1470, or emailing youngctr@etown.edu
Nelson Okanya currently serves as chair of Mennonite World Conference’s Global Mission Fellowship. Born and raised in the Kenya Mennonite Church, he previously led an intercultural Mennonite congregation in Maryland, was the president of the nonprofit division of the Center for Serving Leadership and was the president of Eastern Mennonite Missions. His doctoral dissertation at Fuller School of Mission and Theology examined the nineteenth and twentieth century impetus for mission among Mennonites in eastern Pennsylvania.
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