Date

September 5, 2024

Time

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Location

Mennonite Central Committee Material Resource Center

Cost

Complimentary

Join Mennonite Life and Mennonite Central Committee for an evening with John Hillegass, author of Canner Boy: An Impossible Journey of Faith and Service with the World’s Only Mobile Cannery.

What is a mobile cannery?
What does it mean to be a Canner Boy?
From the mountains of Guatemala and El Salvador and the valleys of Switzerland, to the bustling streets of Haiti and communities around the U.S. and Canada, undertake an adventure to uncover the world’s only meat canning factory on wheels. Learn about the thousands of volunteers who make it possible. Discover good work and the impact it has on millions of lives around the world. Be challenged and encouraged that the impossible can be achieved through faith and service. Find out what it means to say, “Together we can.”

The Mennonite Central Committee mobile cannery will be on-site for the event.

 

 

Location

  • Mennonite Central Committee Material Resource Center
  • 517 W Trout Run Road
    Ephrata, 17522 United States
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Our Campuses

Mennonite Life Campus
1719 Museum Campus

Did You Know?

The sandstone used for the Herr House was quarried on-site.

Christian Herr was a prominent leader in the 18th century Mennonite Community. Years after his death Lancaster Mennonites were still referred to as the Christian Herr Party.

Indigenous Peoples taught the Herr family and other Mennonites how to hunt game, clear heavily forested land, and how to identify native plants.