Join us at Hill House for dinner and a presentation by Jake Armerding, Singer songwriter and violinist, on his practice of this vocation to the glory of God.

Jake Armerding is an American folk musician and multi-instrumentalist from Boston, Massachusetts. He plays mostly acoustic string instruments like the mandolin, acoustic guitar, and fiddle. In 1990, Jake began playing with Northern Lights occasionally. He joined the band full-time in 1992 and was a member until 1999 when he left the band to pursue a solo career. Jake attended Wheaton College where he received a degree in English literature. In 2001, Armerding won the Best New Artist Award from Boston's folk-radio station, WUMB.

In addition to his solo efforts, Jake makes up half of a duo, The Fretful Porcupine, along with saxophonist Kevin Gosa. Armerding is also a member of Barnstar!, a "bluegrass [band] for people who hate bluegrass." He is on the faculty of the Traditional Music Project housed at the Real School of Music in Burlington, Massachusetts.

Join us at Hill House for a July 4th cookout and a presentation by Greg and Mary Jane, campus ministers, on their practice of this vocation to the glory of God. This will be followed by a viewing of the fireworks at Congress St. Bridge.

Greg Grooms came to Hill House in August of 1994 from Huemoz, Switzerland, after working with L'Abri Fellowship for 15 years. While studying biochemistry at Tulane University in New Orleans, he discovered his faith needed to grow if it were to survive the questions and pressures of living in the modern world. This led him to Francis and Edith Schaeffer’s study center in the Swiss Alps where the historic Christian faith of his childhood was reaffirmed and expanded to apply to all of life and culture.

Greg met and married his Canadian-born wife Mary Jane in Switzerland. They have five children, all of whom are now post college.

Mary Jane brings over three decades of experience in teaching, counseling and hospitality to her role as Co-Director of Hill House.

Greg and Mary Jane's conviction in leading Hill House is that the Bible is true and that all of life is spiritual and meant to be lived to the glory of God. It is a conviction that is reflected in Greg’s teaching. He begins with the Bible and moves to everything else, from academics to pop culture.

Join us at Hill House for dinner and a presentation by Laura Dunn, documentary filmmaker, on her practice of this vocation to the glory of God.

Laura Dunn started making documentaries in response to her undergraduate experience at Yale University. Through a chronicle of labor strikes on campus, THE SUBTEXT OF A YALE EDUCATION examines the corporatization of higher education. She then returned to her birthplace to make GREEN, a sobering look at environmental racism along the Mississippi River petrochemical corridor, a.k.a. “Cancer Alley”. Other work includes experimental films BABY, a personal take on population issues, and BECOME THE SKY, an ecological map of power in Texas.  Her first feature documentary, THE UNFORESEEN, executive produced by Robert Redford and Terrence Malick, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, was released theatrically and broadcast on the Sundance Channel.  Her new film, LOOK & SEE, also executive produced by Robert Redford and Terrence Malick, and funded in part by the Sundance Documentary Film Fund, is a cinematic portrait of writer and farmer Wendell Berry.  Honors include a Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship, Student Academy Award, Yale’s Trumbull Fine Arts Prize, International Documentary Association Pare Lorenz Grant and an  Independent Spirit Truer Than Fiction Award. She lives in Austin, Texas with her husband and six young boys.

Bond West graduated from the University Scholar Program at Baylor University where he studied Classics with an emphasis on early European civilization and culture.

Bond became interested in language study, particularly Old Norse, while studying abroad at St. Andrew's.  Upon graduating. he received a Fulbright scholarship to attend the University of Iceland where he earned his first masters degree in Medieval Icelandic Studies.  

He later attended Selwyn College at the University of Cambridge. where he received an MPhil in Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic.  Most recently, he has been teaching Latin and Greek at Regent Preparatory in Tulsa, OK.  Bond intends to start a PhD this coming fall.