Opportunity and Conscience: Mennonite Immigration the theme of Heritage Banquet
Written by Steve Diehl on May 4, 2017
The 2017 Heritage Banquet was held on Friday, April 28th at the Heritage Center
“Let us walk again the pilgrim path.”
With these words from the invocation of Steve Kriss, Executive Minister of the Franconia Conference, 80 guests headed down that path. One storyteller was Friedrick Alldörfer, whose passage was across the Atlantic in 1733. Friedrick was portrayed by Heritage Center historian Joel Alderfer, an actual descendant. He hosted guests in the cross-section of his ship, the focal