September 10, 2004
Peter Wiebe, interim president
of Hesston College, will be the featured speaker at Salem Mennonite
Church, Waldron, Mich., Sunday, September 19.
Wiebe will speak during the 9:30
a.m. morning worship service. Then during the Sunday school hour following,
he will present a Hesston College update.
Hesston College alumni and friends
are especially welcome to attend. Church pastor Dee Custar is a member
of the Hesston College Board of Overseers.
Wiebe has served as interim president
of Hesston College since July 2003. From 1996-2003, he served in Membership
Services and Church Relations with Mennonite Economic Development
Associates.
He has also pastored Mennonite
congregations in Indiana, Ohio, Kansas, and Arizona.
Wiebe received a bachelor's degree
in Bible from Goshen (Ind.) College in 1949, a bachelor of divinity
degree from Goshen Biblical Seminary in 1952, and a master of divinity
degree from Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Elkhart, Ind.,
in 1981.
He was ordained to pastoral ministry
in Indiana-Michigan Conference of the Mennonite Church in 1951.
Wiebe and his wife Rheta Mae live
in Hesston.
Located in south central Kansas,
Hesston College is a two-year Christian liberal arts college owned
by Mennonite Church USA.
For more information, contact
Dallas Stutzman, Director of Alumni Relations, toll free at 866-437-7866
(866-HESSTON).