Four Bluffton residents will share their stories on WTLW TV 44's Grace for Today program in early February.
Phil and Sharon Zimmerly, of Common Grounds coffee shop, Jim "Train" King of Ebenezer Mennonite Church and Beth Boehr-Miller, who recently launched a news business, are the guests, according to Christina Ryan Claypool, herself a Bluffton University graduate, and host of the television program, which airs at 9 a.m. each morning.
A Martin Luther King Day benefit lunch, with all proceeds going to the Fight Back Center, New Orleans, La., is planned from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday, Jan. 18, at the First Mennonite Church, Bluffton.
Tickets at the door are $10 for adults, $5 for youth under 12 and free for pre-school youth, according to Wendy Chappell-Dick.
Daniel Hughes of Bluffton is the featured speaker of the Bluffton Inter Church Board's Martin Luther King Day celebration. The event is Thursday, Jan. 21, at the Bluffton Senior Citizens Center.
A community meal is at 6 p.m. The King program follows the meal. Both are open to the public.
Hughes will give a tribute to King with a speech Crossing Over Into the Promised Land.
Ebenezer Mennonite Church will host a series of programs from Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University.
The programs are from 6:45 to 8:15 p.m., Wednesday and Sunday evenings beginning the week of Jan. 17. In addition two preview showings are Sunday, Jan. 10, (9 a.m.) and Wednesday, Jan. 13, (7 p.m).
Financial Peace University is a 13-week, video based small group study that teaches families how to beat debt, build wealth and give "like never before."
The program is free and open to the public. Dave Ramsey's Peace University web site is daveramsey.com.
