This year’s education theme will be “In Relationship: God, Others, Self and Creation” and our verse is “We love because he first loved us”  -1 John 4:19

 

October  4 Dr. Mark Ruff – “Defense of Nazi war criminals by German churches”-How and why did an ardent opponent of National Socialism, a victim of Nazi persecution, and a survivor of two concentration camps become a tireless fighter for the rights of convicted Nazi criminals after 1945?

 

Based on research in more than a dozen archives in the United States and Germany, Mark Ruff will discuss the unusual odyssey of Johannes Neuhäusler, a Bavarian churchman who ascended the ranks to become a cathedral canon and auxiliary bishop (Weihbischof) of the archdiocese of Munich-Freising. After surviving Dachau and Sachsenhausen, Neuhäusler became the most effective champion of the rights of convicted Nazi war criminals, working tirelessly until his death in 1975 to have war criminals amnestied and released.

 

October 11 Intergenerational Education Hour- “In Relationship: with God”

 

October 18  Guest speakers from Humanitri and Webster-Rock Hill Ministries

 

October 25 Dr. Mark Ruff – Part 2, “Role of the American church”