Lancaster Region

This course provides participants with the information and experiences needed to become more resilient as individuals and as groups. Building on the most recent advances in the psychology of Wellness, students will receive an introduction to recent breakthroughs in the science of personality. This lens of personality will be used to guide participants through a personalized approach to building individual and group resilience.

Join us on a DVD travel journey through the Maritime Provinces. The tour includes natural marvels from the New England coast to the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and Prince Edward Island. From puffins and whales to cliffs and falls, we'll enjoy the wonders of all the Maritime Provinces have to offer. The program will conclude with a PowerPoint presentation focusing on specific points of interest.

How do you find specific stars and constellations in the night sky? This lecture will give the participant an understanding of the celestial sphere, the motions of objects in the sky, and how to find objects in the sky. Some of the mythology of the planets, stars, and constellations will be included in this lecture.

The Weaver story is an example of small town American entrepreneurship. Victor Weaver and his wife, Edith, began their business by selling 17 dressed chickens in a suburban Philadelphia farmers' market. As the company grew, Victor was recognized as a visionary and pioneer of new products in the poultry industry, often a step ahead of major companies. When Victor had difficulty establishing a steady labor force, he hired Puerto Ricans. The company provided English classes and cultural awareness training to help these people in transition to the States. He helped establish the first Spanish-American Mennonite congregation in the area. Victor was guided by his Christian faith and remained a humble man whose success didn't change him. He and Edith supported many churches and other causes that benefited his community and beyond.

This course will explore the state of the news media and their audiences today, attempting to examine whether or not truth can be found there, and if so, how people of faith and people in general might be more successful in extracting it.

The American westerns represent the quintessential contribution of American film history. In this course we will follow the rise of this genre from the B-Film days of the silent era and the 1930s, the emergence in the 1940s with darker, serious films, the golden era of the 1950s and the revisionist shift in the late 1960s and beyond. We will examine the iconic characters of these remarkable films: the rugged men and the strong women. We will also look at the core issues of the mythical American West and pioneering spirit that infused this real and imagined world.

What is the historical novel and where did it come from? Some claim that Sir Walter Scott wrote the first novel based on a true event or a real-life character in 1814 with his popular book, Waverly. But others believe the genre goes back much further, to ancient times, almost 3,000 years ago. Follow author Sherry V. Ostroff as you explore the elements of this popular genre and the history behind the historical novel.

Through a long life and career in medicine and research at Yale, I have not only continued to believe in the God of the Bible, but that belief has been strengthened by the findings of science from 1950 to the present. Along the way, I had questions in the areas of philosophy, theology, cosmology, and biology, but increasingly these have been answered. Even the philosopher called “the world’s most notorious atheist” (Anthony Flew) was converted to believe in a creator God by the strength of the current scientific evidence. This class will give an orderly presentation of findings in many areas that I believe are strong evidence for the reality of the God of the Bible and of the reliability of the Bible as a witness to truth. Feel free to ask questions!

Do you feel “ripped” off in the marketplace? Do you understand Pennsylvania’s amusing and confusing sales tax applications? When you pump a gallon of gas, how do you know that you received it? Have you noticed that packages are shrinking the amount of product we get for the price we pay? When selecting merchandise, do you have to hunt for the price? Have you ever been overcharged at a scanner checkout register? Your shopping trips will never be the same after this entertaining and educational presentation packed with important consumer information!

The course will present the stories and the backgrounds of 6 persons who assassinated U.S. presidents and two other political figures (Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley, John Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and Robert Kennedy).