Come and join us for our annual Block Party! It will be a time of fun, food, music, featuring the band Waiting for Ravens. There will be live music, food, go karts, a water balloon toss for all ages and a bounce house for the kids, and a dunk tank featuring our pastor. This is a free event and all are welcome to attend...invite someone you know! The event is located at 2727 Reed Rd, between Vance and State... We…

Southwest Lutheran Church, 5120 Homestead Road in Fort Wayne, IN, will hold a Car Show, Mental Health and Wellness Fair Sunday afternoon September 23 from Noon to 4:00 PM. This will be the 3rd year for our Classic Car show. We had 75 cars registered last year with more expected this year! Registration is $5.00 per car, benefiting Cross Connections. There will be 20 People’s Choice awards, and dash plaques for the first 100 cars, as well as goodie bags…

The average child in developing countries walks 3.7 miles (6 kilometers) carrying jugs of water. Bringing clean water and other valuable resources and services to these areas helps safeguard orphans and vulnerable children from poverty, abandonment and human trafficking. The event will help raise funds and awareness for the population of children we serve in Uganda, Zimbabwe, India, Malawi and Nepal. What: 6K Competitive Run, 3K Family Walk When: Sunday, September 23 1:30 pm registration 2:30 pm race starts Where:…

The 2018 Northeast Indiana Light the Night Walk will be held Sept. 25, with participants once again taking to the streets of Kendallville to raise awareness and money to find a cure for leukemia and lymphoma. Registration and family activities will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the parking lot at East Noble High School, 901 Garden St, Kendallville, IN 46755.  A short program will start at 7 p.m., and the walk will immediately follow. Nancy Sible of Kendallville is the…

One of the world's most beloved and celebrated singers, Renée Fleming opens the Fort Wayne Philharmonic's 75th Anniversary Season with a wide-ranging program beginning with Richard Strauss's ravishing Four Last Songs, plus popular songs on the second half. The concert will begin with the world premiere of an overture for the Philharmonic’s Anniversary Season by American composer Joel Puckett.

October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard is award-winning author Lesléa Newman’s deeply personal literary and theatrical response to the events of October 6, 1998, when 21-year-old Matthew Shepard was brutally beaten and hung on a fence to die in one of the most brutal gay hate crimes of recent memory. This work of poetic imagination, married to the hauntingly beautiful music of Curtis Heard, serves as an illumination to those unfamiliar with the tragedy, and as a powerful, enduring…