Upcoming Events
Kraybill to offer Hymn Sing
The Kraybill Campus of Lancaster Mennonite School will host an old-fashioned hymn sing Saturday, April 17, to give community members the opportunity to spend an evening blending their voices in song—singing the hymns of the church we love so well but often get little chance to sing. The event will also include an offering that will give guests the opportunity to support the renovation project called Gateway to Kraybill.
The evening will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the school’s Palazzo Gallery and nearby gym lobby where delectable gourmet desserts will be served.
The hymn sing, using “Life Songs No. 2,” as well as several other hymn favorites, will follow from 7:30–9:00 in the former Kraybill Mennonite Meetinghouse which became Kraybill’s first school building in 1949.
In addition to congregational singing led by Kraybill teachers Jim Baer and Sylvia Weaver, the hymn sing will feature the “Barry-Dan Singers,” consisting of Barry Earhart, Barry Carper, Barry Weidman, and Dan Dillman.
The Kraybill Boys’ Octet, directed by Baer, will also sing at this event. The octet represents a larger group of 35 middle school boys who come together each week to sing four-part harmony hymns directed by Baer. These students have sung at area churches and were recently featured at the Harmonies Worship’s Annual Hymn Sing.
Since seating for the hymn sing is limited, please make your reservations now through April 12 at kraybill@lancastermennonite.org or 653-5236. For information about the hymn sing or the Gateway to Kraybill project, please call Matt Weaver at 299-0436, ext. 706.
The Gateway to Kraybill project will include a new main entrance, enlarged lobby, additional classroom for PreK and kindergarten (facilitating options for a full five-day program, as well as 1/2 day schedules), relocated offices, enlarged middle school hallways, and other changes that will improve the flow of student traffic between classes and provide more effective security for the school.
In February the Kraybill Campus kicked off the Gateway to Kraybill project in conjunction with the campus’s annual March Hoagie Sale, which this year is benefitting the renovations. The goal for the hoagie sale was $22,000. Gateway cost projections are $1.5 million, including endowment. So far, $303,000 has been raised. Work is now being done on final drawings. For groundbreaking, 80 percent of the total cost is needed.