March 19-21, 2010
All Hesston alumni and friends and golfing teams/individuals are invited for a weekend of warm springtime weather and activities in Arizona.
Weekend activities include:
- On-your-own golf rounds at premier courses in the Phoenix metro area at group discounted prices during the three day weekend
- Participate on Saturday morning in the Hesston National Golf Benefit Tournament to be held at The Legend at Arrowhead. Proceeds support the Hesston College Fund.
- Evening group events planned with opportunities to attend MLB spring training baseball and NBA basketball games.
- Food and fellowship with Hesston alumni and friends throughout the weekend.
- Optional group discounted hotel accommodations, air travel reservations, and car rentals available through Reflection Travel of Wichita, Kan.
Make plans now for you and your family and/or golfing friends to spend your spring break in warm and sunny Arizona and support Hesston College at the same time! Questions? Call 866-437-7866 (866-HESSTON) or e-mail alumni@hesston.edu to learn more about travel arrangements, lodging, and other weekend events.
Hesston College National Golf Benefit Tournament, The Legend at Arrowhead, Saturday, March 20, 8 a.m.
Weekend events
- L.A. Dodgers vs. San Diego Padres MLB Spring Training Game at Camelback Ranch
- Saturday, March 20, 5:30 p.m., with 7 p.m. game time, 10710 West Camelback Road, Glendale. Bring the whole family for baseball, dinner, and group fellowship in the Bullpen Patio. Dinner provided by vendors at various costs, with a college update given. Reservations required. Call the alumni relations office toll free at 866-437-7866 to reserve your ticket. Reduced price adult tickets are $10 per person, with children 12 years and under at $5.
- Common Threads: Anabaptist and African American Songs and Stories of Suffering and Hope
- Trinity Mennonite Church, 4334 W. Vista, Glendale, 6 p.m., Sunday, March 21. Common Threads explores the way Anabaptist religious persecution and African-American racial suffering have intersected. Hesston faculty members Tony Brown (professional baritone, artist in residence, and sociology professor) and John Sharp (history professor, storyteller, and author of A School on the Prairie, A Centennial History of Hesston College 1909-2009) will give voice to Anabaptist martyrs and African-American slaves by singing their hymns and telling their stories. A free-will offering will be taken. A reception will follow the event.
- Sunday morning worship services
- —President Howard Keim will bring the morning message at Trinity Mennonite Church, at the 9:30 and 11 a.m. services on Sunday, March 21
—Brown and Sharp will present a Common Threads worship message at First Mennonite Church of Phoenix, 1612 W. Northern Ave., 10:30 a.m., on Sunday, March 21
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