Public Concerts & Events
LVC Community Water Ceremony
Saturday, August 27 from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. in the Peace Garden
Incoming students participate in an informal ceremony in which water representing each family is poured into the ponds of LVC's Peace Garden.
Orientation Worship
Sunday, August 28 at 9 a.m. in Miller Chapel
This special worship service will acquaint students with opportunities for worship and fellowship on campus and congregations in the Lebanon area.
Opening Convocation
Monday, August 29 at 4:30 p.m. in Miller Chapel
Convocation marks the formal opening of the academic year. Students will be led by the executive board of Student Government through a receiving line made up of Lebanon Valley College's faculty, administration, and trustees in full academic regalia.
Christian Concert: The Violet Burning
Sunday, October 23 at 7 p.m. in the Miller Chapel Sanctuary
Free to LVC Students; $10 ADV, $12 Door. Preview the group at
www.thevioletburning.com.
Samhain Banquet
Sunday, October 30 at 5 p.m. outside of the Mund College Center
Learn about nature-based religions such as Wicca, Druidism, and paganism from local practioners while enjoying a hearty harvest meal. We'll also experience a demonstration ritual and Celtic music. Admission: $12/General; $30/Family with children. LVC students may attend for meal exchange. Call the Office of Spiritual Life at 867-6135 by Tuesday, October 25 to register. Seating is limited.
Christian Concert: Cristabelle Braden
November 19, 2011 in Miller Chapel
Cristabelle Braden is probably the most sincere musician you will ever meet. Fresh off the heels of releasing her first EP, Cristabelle is scheduled to perform at 7 p.m. on November 19 at Lebanon Valley College’s Miller Chapel as part of the Chapel Concert Series.
Four years ago Cristabelle sustained a very serious traumatic brain injury which significantly reduced her capacity to function in the world. While other teenagers were learning to drive and going out on the weekends, she was in neuro-trauma rehabilitation therapy learning how to once again navigate her world. Life became very difficult for her, and this is when she began to write music. Her Christian faith has sustained and guided her through her on-going process of recovery, and her songs reflect her deeply felt gratitude and devotion. Now a lively, passionate, successful college freshman, she has a remarkable history and a promising future.
To see Cristabelle perform her music is to be captivated by her sincerity, charm, and beautiful music. As a result, her music career is expanding. Harmony, her first EP, was released this past May and she will be releasing a single early next year. She regularly plays music at coffee houses, youth groups, church services, community festivals, and the like.
The concert on November 19 will feature Cristabelle on vocals, acoustic guitar, and piano, Jeff Yorgey on electric guitar, bass, and keys, and Matt Ramage on drums. All three of them are students at Lebanon Valley College. Jeff is a junior music composition and physics double major who has been playing guitar for twelve years. Matt is a sophomore music education major who has been playing piano since the age of four and over the years has branched out to other instruments. Cristabelle usually plays her shows alone, but since becoming a student at LVC she has met other gifted and passionate musicians that are willing and happy to perform with her, adding energy and a fuller sound to her songs.
If there is one thing you need to know, it’s this: Cristabelle offers more than good music; she offers inspiration, hope, and sincerity.
LVC Students will be admitted free with their college ID. Tickets for non-students are $6 in advance, $10 at the door. Advance orders for groups of 10 people or more are $4/person.
Concert tickets can be ordered by calling (717) 867-6135 or by emailing nsmith@lvc.edu. For more information about Cristabelle, visit her website at www.cristabellebraden.com.
For more information, contact LVC’s Office of Spiritual Life at (717) 867-6135. To set up an interview with Cristabelle, email her at cristabelle@cristabellebraden.com.
Christmas at the Valley
Sunday, December 4 at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. in Miller Chapel
This worship service of the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols includes the Lebanon Valley College Choir, LVC Chamber Choir and LVC Concert Choirs as well as other musical groups and soloists. The readings are those used in the Church of England at Christmas time. Admission is free and no tickets are required. A free-will offering is taken for Operation Santa Claus, which provides food, clothing and toys for needy Lebanon County families during the holidays. There is also a live nativity scene and a reception following each performance.
"A Miracle for Jen" with Inspirational Speaker Jen Barrick
Saturday, January 21 at 7 p.m. in Miller Chapel
While driving home from church on November 5, 2006, the Barrick Family was struck head-on by a drunk driver going 80 miles per hour. Andy, Linda, 15-year-old Jennifer and 11-year-old Josh sustained life-threatening injuries. All four were rushed to different hospitals. Having suffered severe traumatic brain injuries and multiple skull fractures, Jennifer was not expected to live through the night.
Following five weeks in a coma, Jennifer was unable to perform basic addition, to recall that she was hurt in a car accident, or even to remember that she had a brother. Miraculously, however, Jennifer could remember scriptures and praise songs she learned before the accident. God’s work in Jennifer’s life continues to manifest healing power.
Today, Jennifer Barrick is an inspirational speaker who shares a message of hope, courage, and forgiveness. Even though she still suffers from vision impairment and memory loss, Jennifer is finding success as a part-time student majoring in Religion/Women's Ministries.
On Saturday, January 21, 2012, residents, students and church youth groups in Central Pennsylvania will have a unique opportunity to be inspired by Jennifer’s story. The event, “A Miracle for Jen,” will begin at 7 p.m. in the Miller Chapel on the campus of Lebanon Valley College. LVC Student Cristabelle Braden will open the event with worship music, and followed by a message of hope, courage and forgiveness as told by Jennifer and her mother, Linda Barrick.
Seating is limited. Tickets costs $5 for adults and $2 for non-LVC students. LVC students may attend free of charge with their student ID. Seating is limited. Reserve tickets by contacting FOR-U Ministries (
foruministry@comcast.net) with the following information: contact name, contact phone number or email address, and the number of tickets you need to reserve. For more information, call Tom Bender at (717) 222-0888.
Stacy Dee
Wednesday, February 4, 2012 in Miller Chapel
Based in Pennsylvania, Stacey Dee is the founder of the Music Makers Community and the coordinator for the Harrisburg area Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI) workshop. Poetically honest lyrics and emotional melodies mark Stacey’s music. According to one online music critic, she mesmerizes with a ‘vulnerable tenderness’ and ‘a penetratingly kind vocal style.’ “I seek to open a door to the heart and mind of my listeners with a perspective that is inclusive of all humanity,” Stacey comments, “and to make a memorable impression.”
Stacey has received numerous honors and awards for her music. Her songs have been featured on the 2009 ADCOLOR Awards compilation CD, played on MTV2 and prime-time television shows such as “The Hills,” and heard on radio stations across the country. In addition to being a vocal finalist in the Daywind Exalting Him National Talent Search, she was a songwriting finalist at the Gospel Music Association (GMA) Music in the Rockies event in Estes Park, CO, and a semi-finalist in the vocal and band categories. Stacey has opened for Grammy nominated singer/songwriter Katie Herzig, was a featured artist in the February 2008 edition of Nooze Magazine, and has been featured numerous times on 670 KLTT in Denver, CO.
Stacey is also a sought-after public speaker, incorporating her music as she shares her life story.
The program at Lebanon Valley College will open with a student-led Christian worship band. In support of a 30 Hour Famine planned by LVC students, Stacey Dee will include a brief presentation about World Vision’s child sponsorship program as part of her program.
Tickets cost $6 each in advance, and are $10 at the door. Group discounts are also available. The event is free for LVC students. For tickets and more information, contact the Office of Spiritual Life at (717) 867-6135. For more information about Stacey Dee or her music, visit her website at www.staceydee.com.
Mike Yankoski
Thursday, February 16, 2012 in Miller Chapel
Lebanon Valley College and its student organization, Hunger Awareness Leaders of Tomorrow (HALT), are pleased to welcome best-selling Christian author Mike Yankoski to Miller Chapel on Thursday, February 16 at 7 p.m. LVC student Cristabelle Braden will start the event playing original Christian music. Doors open at 5:30 p.m., Braden will play at 6 p.m., and Yankoski will share insights regarding the issue of homelessness at 7 p.m. Admission for the event is free; the donation of one canned food item upon entry would be appreciated.
Between his sophomore and junior years Mike Yankoski did something a little uncanny; he became homeless. For five months, in six different American cities, Mike and friend, Sam, intentionally ate from trash cans and Rescue Missions, slept under bridges, and panhandled in order to survive. They chose to do this not only in order to better understand the plight of the American homeless, but more specifically to observe how the Church and Christians were interacting with this despised corner of American society. Mike's book, “Under the Overpass: A Journey of Faith on the Streets of America” (Multnomah, 2010), captures his journey on the streets and relates the people and experiences that forever changed his life during that five month journey. Today, Mike has a passion to push Christians to live an active and out loud lifestyle of faith, directed by God's will and biblical teaching, and engaged with the surrounding world. He uses his story of Christ's love and calling in his life to captivate and motivate Christians into deeper faith and bolder action.
Mike and his wife, Danae, live in Vancouver, B.C. where they are currently enrolled asgraduate students at Regent College. Mike spends much of his time speaking to audiences across the United States and Canada. He serves on the Board of Directors of World Vision US, the Advisory Board of Kilns College, and is the author of two books:
Under the Overpass: A Journey of Faith on the Streets of America (Multnomah, 2010) and
My 30 Days Under the Overpass: Not Your Ordinary Devotional (Multnomah, 2006). He and Danae are the executive editors of
Zealous Love: A Practical Guide to Social Justice (Zondervan, 2010). When they aren't buried in books or writing papers, their hobbies include running, hiking, and backpacking. They sponsor a Web site at
www.undertheoverpass.com.
Cristabelle Braden has recently begun a music career which is rapidly expanding.
Harmony, her first EP, was released this past May and she will be releasing a single early next year. She regularly plays music at coffee houses, youth groups, church services, community festivals, and the like. Cristabelle’s music may be sampled at
www.cristabellebraden.com.
The event has been sponsored in-part by LVC’s Office of Spiritual Life, Department of Religion & Philosophy, Student Programming Board, and Office of Multicultural Affairs. Mike’s presentation is part of the LVC’s Spring Colloquium Series on
MONEY, a year-long integrated series of guest speakers, roundtable discussions, films, and courses that consider society's idea of money. Programs within the colloquium consider current issues such as unemployment, poverty, and the gender wage gap, as well as discussions on tax policy, the job market and entrepreneurship, and the very ideas of money, the free market, and the morality and theology of capitalism.
John Dominic Crossan
Wednesday, March 14 at 7:00 p.m. & Thursday, March 15 at 9:00 and 11:00 a.m. in Miller Chapel
Leading expert on the historical Jesus, John Dominic Crossan, will come to Lebanon Valley College to share from his most recent book, The Greatest Prayer: Rediscovering the Revolutionary Message of the Lord's Prayer. For the opening lecture, Crossan will help us to consider how the “greatest prayer” can be addressed to God in patriarchal terms, and what it means for God to be conceived of as “Householder” of the World-House.
The three-part first half of the Abba-Prayer involves a balanced focus on the Name, Kingdom, and Will of God. Those three aspects relate in crescendo format so that the God’s Name (reputation) is only holy when the God’s Kingdom is present so that God’s Will is done “as in heaven so on earth” (original Greek word-order).
The three-part second half of the Abba-Prayer balances human food, debt, and temptation against that former divine half. Could we ever have one half without the other or are they dialectically related like twin sides of the same coin? Why those particular three items? And, again, if there is a crescendo effect, what does “temptation” mean? Is it generic for all temptations, or specific for one above all others?
The lectures are free and open to the public, but will be ticketed as space is limited. Please call the Office of Spiritual Life at 867-6135 by Monday, March 12 to register individuals or groups.
HiS (He Is Savior)
Saturday, March 17 at 7:00 p.m. in Miller Chapel
Concert by LVC's own praise band.
Jimmy Needham
Saturday, April 14 at 7:00 p.m. in Miller Chapel
Concert.
Unity Fest
Wednesday, May 2 at 4:30 p.m. in the Academic Quad
Community members are invited to join students, faculty and staff at Lebanon Valley College for its annual “Unity Fest” picnic, an evening of fellowship, food, activity and live entertainment on Wednesday, May 5, beginning at 4:30 p.m. The picnic will be held on the College’s Academic Quad, south of Miller Chapel. Attendees will be treated to live entertainment by six of the college’s Christian performance groups: “Praise Him with Dance”, “He is Savior” praise band, and the a capella group “Songs of Savior.” In addition to the entertainment, guests will enjoy a free picnic featuring buffet tables set with hamburgers, BBQ chicken breasts, veggie burgers, salads, desserts, and drinks. There will also be games, activities and fun for all ages. Admission is free; community members are asked to bring a dessert, if possible. Call the Office of Spiritual Life before noon on Monday, April 30 to sign up.
Baccalaureate
Saturday, May 12 at 9 a.m. in Miller Chapel
Each year on the day of graduation, a special worship service is held in Miller Chapel at 9 a.m. which features a formal academic procession, a distinguished guest speaker, live choral music, and hundreds of exuberant graduates. In 2012 we will welcome Bishop Peggy Johnson to campus for this occasion! All are welcome; admission is free.