The current special exhibition, “Voices of Conscience: Peace Witness in the Great War,” lifts up the prophetic insights and the personal courage of World War I peace protestors, and suggests parallels to the culture of war and violence in our world today. See this exhibit while it is at home after traveling to 24 venues in the last eight years.

The Museum Store and permanent exhibits “Of Land and People,” “Mennonite Immigrant Furniture,” “Mirror of the Martyrs,” the Tallgrass Prairie Reconstruction and the historic farmstead will be open as well.

Museum admission is free Thursday through Sunday.

Bethel College and the Newton Area Chamber of Commerce partner on this annual event to celebrate the community and to kick off Fall Festival. Churches, clubs, organizations and private vendors host food booths covering three city blocks downtown. Plus, there are two areas for live music and other performances! (All performances subject to change without notice)

Karen Reimer ‘82

The current special exhibition, “Voices of Conscience: Peace Witness in the Great War,” lifts up the prophetic insights and the personal courage of World War I peace protestors, and suggests parallels to the culture of war and violence in our world today. See this exhibit while it is at home after traveling to 24 venues in the last eight years.

The Museum Store and permanent exhibits “Of Land and People,” “Mennonite Immigrant Furniture,” “Mirror of the Martyrs,” the Tallgrass Prairie Reconstruction and the historic farmstead will be open as well.

Museum admission is free Thursday through Sunday.

Check-in at 1 p.m. | Tee time at 2 p.m. Join other Thresher alumni and friends in a round of golf at the scenic Hesston Golf Course.

Purchase tickets for the Fall Fest production: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang.

Honoring the 2025 Hall of Fame Class inductees: Virgil Penner ’60, Juan Aguirre ’98, and Dale Russell ’76.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

Join the cast and crew for a meet-and-greet immediately after the performance.

Also at 3 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday.

3001 Ivy Drive, North Newton, Kidron Hall

Pancakes, sausage, eggs, coffee and orange juice

Cost: by donation. Benefits the Health Care Benevolent Fund, a ministry of Kidron Bethel Village, assisting residents who are unable to cover the full cost of their care.

Local birding experts lead a one-hour, 1.5-mile walk along Bethel’s Sand Creek Trail, looking and listening for birds. Trail terrain is uneven. No cost. Binoculars recommended but not required.

Hosted by Bethel College Flag Football

Baked goods, Bethel items and crafts by BCWA members and others. Plus, a silent auction featuring items by Bethel College alumni artists.

Karen Reimer ‘82

Open Road, Woven, Newton High School Jazz, Newton Community Children’s Choir, YAWP! authors/artists, and Bethel College Jazz

Thresher Shop will be open during the day and will have a stand at the football game from 6 p.m. through halftime.

The current special exhibition, “Voices of Conscience: Peace Witness in the Great War,” lifts up the prophetic insights and the personal courage of World War I peace protestors, and suggests parallels to the culture of war and violence in our world today. See this exhibit while it is at home after traveling to 24 venues in the last eight years.

The Museum Store and permanent exhibits “Of Land and People,” “Mennonite Immigrant Furniture,” “Mirror of the Martyrs,” the Tallgrass Prairie Reconstruction and the historic farmstead will be open as well.

Museum admission is free Thursday through Sunday.

The NASA Space Apps Challenge provides the opportunity to engage directly with NASA’s data, along with Space Agency Partner data. During the hackathon, teams use this data to address challenges written by NASA Subject Matter Experts, featuring topics including storytelling, software development, astrophysics, space exploration, agriculture, and more.

Miroslav Volf, Croatian Protestant theologian and public intellectual and Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology and director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture at Yale University. His latest book, The Cost of Ambition, examines why ambition is at odds with the Christian faith.

Roseann Penner Kaufman and Donna Hetrick will explore music in the Gesangbuch mit Noten, a hymnal published by the General Conference of the Mennonite Church of North America in Berne, IN in 1890. The copy of this hymnal belonging to Wilhelmina Van der Smissen, who donated the organ to Bethel College in 1910, was recently found at an estate sale and will be displayed. This organ continues to create music today just as it has since 1750.

Free sample dance classes between 10:40 a.m. and 12 p.m. in the lower level of Mem Hall. No dance experience is required and classes are open to children 12 months – 10 years old!

Legacy in sound: Join with organists and the college choir as we celebrate 40 years of the Dobson chapel organ.

Join your classmates in Mem Hall for an informal gathering of our milestone reunion classes. Alumni in classes “one-up and one-down” are invited, too. (For example, classes of 2004 and 2006 are welcome at the 2005 reunion.)

Refreshments will be served.

• Class of 2015 (10th)
• Class of 2010 (15th)
• Class of 2005 (20th)
• Class of 2000 (25th)
• Class of 1995 (30th)
• Class of 1990 (35th)
• Class of 1985 (40th)
• Class of 1980 (45th)
• Class of 1975 (Golden Threshers)
• Class of 1970 (55th)
• Class of 1965 (60th)
• Thresher Heritage Class (1963 and prior)

In 1974, Mennonites in South Central Kansas commemorated the 100th anniversary of migration from Russia to Kansas. As part of the celebration an unassuming three-room wood house was moved from one mile east of Goessel to the grounds of Kauffman Museum.

The story of the Voth-Unruh-Fast house is the story of a family and a story of preservation. Kris Schmucker, a descendent of Kornelius and Anna Funk Unruh and Kauffman Museum’s newly appointed Collections Manager, will give a presentation exploring the family, the move and how the house illustrates a ‘typical’ Mennonite home of the 1870s in the Goessel area.

Purchase tickets for the Fall Fest production: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang.

Also at 7 p.m. Friday and 2 p.m. Sunday.

Join the cast and crew for a meet-and-greet immediately after the performance.

Come witness the dedication of the new Wellness Center!

Visit the Thresher Shop booth inside Thresher Stadium – open until halftime!

Athletic Hall of Fame Class of 2025 recognition

Purchase tickets for the Fall Fest production: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang.

The current special exhibition, “Voices of Conscience: Peace Witness in the Great War,” lifts up the prophetic insights and the personal courage of World War I peace protestors, and suggests parallels to the culture of war and violence in our world today. See this exhibit while it is at home after traveling to 24 venues in the last eight years.

The Museum Store and permanent exhibits “Of Land and People,” “Mennonite Immigrant Furniture,” “Mirror of the Martyrs,” the Tallgrass Prairie Reconstruction and the historic farmstead will be open as well.

Museum admission is free Thursday through Sunday.

Also at 7 p.m. Friday and 3 p.m. Saturday.

Join the cast and crew for a meet-and-greet immediately after the performance.

Karen Reimer ‘82