AD 2025 will be 2000 years since John the Baptist announced the Kingdom of God in about AD 25.  AD 2025 will also be 500 years since the beginning of the Anabaptist Movement in the Reformation. 

Elwood E. Yoder teaches AP World History, U.S. History, World Cultures, Kingdom Living, and Church History at Eastern Mennonite High School, Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA

Elwood's books include:

We're Marching to Zion, a history of Zion Mennonite Church, Broadway, Virginia, 1885-2010, May, 2010

Margaret's Print Shop, Herald Press, 2005

Church and Mennonite History Resource Notebook, prepared for the Mennonite Secondary Education Council Church History teachers, 2004

Life in the Kingdom, a student manual on peace and nonresistance from a Mennonite perspective, Eastern Mennonite High School, 1997

Co-author, Through Fire and Water, Herald Press, 1996, 2010

The Bishop's Letters, 2011, published by the Shenandoah Valley Mennonite Historians.

The picture on the home page was taken by Clayton Shank on March 23, 1941, the last Sunday worship services were held in the old Zion Mennonite Church building, Broadway, Virginia, USA, before being torn down and rebuilt.