On Tuesday, June 21, Heritage Farmstead Museum will host a special “Day at the Farm” event. The event – which is sponsored by Credit Union of Texas – will allow guests to tour the farm and enjoy sheep shearing, tractor-driven hay rides, crafts, story time, games of the past, a variety of special demonstrations, and hands-on activities like feeding chickens.

"You are invited to join us for a day at the Farmstead," said Heritage Farmstead Museum Executive Director M'Lou Hyttinen. “Take a step back in time with us, try your hand at stilts or spoon races, explore the farm and enjoy the many fun activities and presentations available at this event!”

The event will also feature a demonstration by the Dallas Weavers Guild. Guests will also have the opportunity to meet the farm’s new ducks and to milk Buttermilk, the farm’s interactive educational display milking cow.

Day at the Farm will take place on Tuesday, June 21 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Pre-purchased online tickets are $8 per child and $5 per adult. Tickets at the door are $10 per child and $5 for adults.

Event sponsor Credit Union of Texas will provide free lunch to all event guests via their Community Grill Food Truck. The lunch menu includes Angus hamburgers and cheeseburgers, 100 percent beef jumbo sausage dogs, assorted chips and bottled water.

This event is also sponsored in part by the City of Plano. The Heritage Farmstead Museum is located at 1900 West 15th Street in Plano. Registration for this event is available at https://www.heritagefarmstead.org/event-list/a-day-at-the-farm-10/ or by calling 972.881.0140.

About The Heritage Farmstead Museum:
The Heritage Farmstead Museum, a four-acre historic site consisting of a restored, 14-room 1891 Victorian farmhouse with its original outbuildings, interprets rural life on the North Texas prairie between 1890 and 1925. The museum provides tours, field trips and programs for 35,000 visitors each year. For more information, call 972.881.0140 or visit www.heritagefarmstead.org. 

On Saturday, April 9, Plano's Heritage Farmstead Museum will host its Victorian Eggstravaganza and Spring Festival.  The event features an egg hunt including thousands of eggs filled with prizes for children ages 10 and under, but guests of all ages will delight in the joys of spring on the Blackland Prairie with the shearing of the Farmstead's sheep and a variety of other family-friendly activities.

"Grab your Easter basket and join us for a fun day on the Farmstead," said Heritage Farmstead Museum Executive Director M'Lou Hyttinen. “Take a step back in time with us at this unique, springtime event!”

The event will also include hands-on demonstrations, historic exhibits, hay rides, food trucks, children’s crafts, house tours, historical activities, a photo booth, live banjo and ukulele music and more.

The Victorian Eggstravaganza and Spring Festival event will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.  Egg hunts for children three and under start at 10:15 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. Egg hunts for children ages four to six years start at 10:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. Egg hunts for children seven to 10 years start at 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Children are encouraged to bring their own Easter baskets.

Online admission and egg hunt ticket purchase is preferred, and a $2 discount is available if tickets are purchased online. Egg hunts fill up on a first-come, first-served basis. Admission tickets are $6 per child, $8 for adults and $5 for Heritage Farmstead Museum members. Egg hunt tickets are $2 per child for all children birth to 10 years. Food truck purchases will be charged separately.  All photo booth proceeds benefit the farm’s livestock program.

The Heritage Farmstead Museum is also debuting its new spring exhibit, titled ‘For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow” in the Farrell Wilson Home, which depicts an early 19th Century George Washington-themed birthday party complete with games, ice cream and patriotic ragtime music.

This event is sponsored in part by the City of Plano. The Heritage Farmstead Museum is located at 1900 West 15th Street in Plano. Registration for this event is available at https://www.heritagefarmstead.org/event-list/victorian-eggstravaganza-and-spring-festival-6/ or by calling 972.881.0140.

About The Heritage Farmstead Museum:
The Heritage Farmstead Museum, a four-acre historic site consisting of a restored, 14-room 1891 Victorian farmhouse with its original outbuildings, interprets rural life on the North Texas prairie between 1890 and 1925. The museum provides tours, field trips and programs for 35,000 visitors each year.  For more information, call 972.881.0140 or visit www.heritagefarmstead.org. 

Faith Lutheran Church and School of Plano today announced it will host a presentation by renowned author Dr. Gene Edward Veith on Thursday, February 3 at 7 p.m.  Dr. Veith will discuss his book Postmodern Times: A Christian Guide to Contemporary Thought and Culture.

“We are pleased to welcome Dr. Veith to our campus,” said Faith Lutheran Church Associate Pastor Rev. Stephen W. Kieser, who also serves as Headmaster for Faith Lutheran School.  “His book, Postmodern Times, is a must-read for all Christians.”

In Postmodern Times, Dr. Veith reminds readers that it is important to understand present day thought and culture. Relativist and postmodern ideas have gripped the nation's universities, which turn out today's lawyers, judges, writers, journalists, teachers, and other culture-shapers. Truth, meaning, and individual identity do not exist in the postmodern mindset. But Christ has called us to proclaim the gospel to a culture grappling with postmodernism.

Faith Lutheran Church members recently enjoyed a Bible study focusing on Dr. Veith’s book The Spirituality of the Cross, and Faith Lutheran School’s high school scholars read Postmodern Times during their course of study at the classical Lutheran school, so inviting Dr. Veith to the church and school was a natural fit, Kieser added.

Gene Edward Veith, Jr., is a writer and a retired literature professor.  He is Provost Emeritus at Patrick Henry College and the Director of the Cranach Institute at Concordia Theological Seminary in Ft. Wayne, Indiana.  He previously served as Culture Editor of WORLD MAGAZINE and Professor of English and Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences at Concordia University Wisconsin. He is the author of more than 25 book including Postmodern Times: A Christian Guide to Contemporary Thought and Culture, The Spirituality of the Cross: The Way of the First Evangelicals, Classical Education, and God at Work: Your Christian Vocation in All of Life.

Dr. Veith was born in Oklahoma in 1951. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1973 and received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Kansas in 1979.  He has honorary doctorates from Concordia Theological Seminary (2005), Concordia University California (2014), and Patrick Henry College (2016).  He has taught at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College and was a Visiting Professor at Wheaton College, Gordon College, and Regent College (Vancouver).  He was also a Visiting Lecturer at the Estonian Institute of Humanities in Tallinn, Estonia. He and his wife Jackquelyn have three grown children and twelve grandchildren.  They live in Blackwell, Oklahoma.

Faith Lutheran Church of Plano is a member of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, and the congregation was founded in 1964. With Jesus at the center of all that is taught and preached, Faith Lutheran Church is faithful to the Scriptures and to the Lutheran Confessions.  For more information, please visit www.faithplano.org or call 972.423.744.7

Faith Lutheran School of Plano serves students in preschool through grade 12. Founded in 1971, the classical Lutheran school embodies both the sound doctrine and the educational model that are essential to training up children in the faith and cultivating in them wisdom and virtue, a love of learning, sound reasoning, and the ability to confess and defend the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Faith Lutheran School partners with families to provide a true, good, and beautiful classical education built upon the foundation of God’s Word and the Lutheran Confessions to present every person complete in Christ. For more information, please visit www.flsplano.org or call 972.423.7448.

Faith Lutheran School high school sophomore Elizabeth Crawford of Plano was recently selected to participate in the National Honor Choir at Concordia University in Seward, Nebraska.

Crawford was one of 110 talented high school singers chosen from more than 200 students across the country who auditioned to be in this prestigious group.

“It is always a great pleasure to see our dedicated and talented students recognized,” said Faith Lutheran School Headmaster Rev. Stephen W. Kieser. “We are very proud of Elizabeth and her accomplishments.”

Crawford and other National Honor Choir members experienced extensive rehearsal on the Concordia University – Nebraska campus on Friday, November 5 with the university’s renowned music department chair Dr. Kurt Von Kampen. Rehearsals culminated with a late afternoon concert at St. John Lutheran Church in Seward, Nebraska the same day. This concert also featured the university’s popular A Capella Choir, which includes two Faith Lutheran School alumni, John Merritt of Plano and Nathan Kieser of Wylie.

Faith Lutheran School of Plano serves students in preschool through grade 12. Founded in 1971, the classical Lutheran school embodies both the sound doctrine and the educational model that are essential to training up children in the faith and cultivating in them wisdom and virtue, a love of learning, sound reasoning, and the ability to confess and defend the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Faith Lutheran School partners with families to provide a true, good, and beautiful classical education built upon the foundation of God’s Word and the Lutheran Confessions to present every person complete in Christ. To learn more about Faith Lutheran School, please call 972.423.7448.

Faith Lutheran School in Plano will conduct a school-wide open house on Wednesday, November 17 at 6 p.m.  At this event, prospective families will learn about our preschool, lower school, and upper school programs, meet our faculty, and tour our facility. In addition, Faith Lutheran School will host a high school specific open house on Tuesday, November 30 at 6 p.m. At this event, guests will have the opportunity to visit with current high school parents and students, meet with faculty and discover our robust high school offerings. Faith Lutheran School is located at 1701 E. Park Blvd in Plano.  All are welcome...please join us!

Faith Lutheran School of Plano serves students in preschool through grade 12. Founded in 1971, our classical Lutheran school embodies both the sound doctrine and the educational model that are essential to training up our children in the faith and cultivating in them wisdom and virtue, a love of learning, sound reasoning, and the ability to confess and defend the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We partner with families to provide a true, good, and beautiful classical education built upon the foundation of God’s Word and the Lutheran Confessions so that we may present every person complete in Christ (Colossians 1:28). To learn more about Faith Lutheran School, please visit www.flsplano.org or call 972.423.7448.