The Seventh Quinquennial Jacob Hochstetler Family Association Family Gathering is scheduled to take place on July 27 and 28. in Berlin, Ohio, a center of Ohio Amish culture. There will be a dinner meeting at 6:30 Friday night at Berlin's Heritage Community Center, with Gerald Mast, a historian and professor of communication at Bluffton (Ohio) University, speaking on “Building a Chair for Jesus and other Holmes County Stories from our Genealogy of Faith.”

 

Saturday’s events begin at 8 a.m. at the Hiland High and Middle School in Berlin and include break-out sessions on a variety of topics, genealogy and other resources, a general meeting, local tours and museum visits, a hymn singing, and more. Bob Hostetler and J. M. Hochstetler will present a session on “The Truth of Historical Fiction.”

 

The official brochure is below. Clicking on the images will cause them to enlarge. You can then right-click, select “save image as” and save it to your hard drive to print if desired. For further information, email editor@jacobhochstetler.com or call Paul Miller at 330-683-0596.