Chigozie Obioma, author of “The Fishermen,” will be at Sterling College on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2016, to read from his fiction. Obioma’s “The Fishermen” has been named to more than a dozen best book of the year lists, including The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times Best Book Review. The college will host Obioma at 2:30 p.m. in Cornerstone in the Student Union and a signing will take place immediately afterward. The public is invited to attend this free event.

Sterling College will welcome Phil Vischer as the speaker for The Ross and Fern Freeman Lecture Series for Servant Leadership at 10 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 30, 2016, in Culbertson Auditorium in Spencer Hall. Vischer is the creator of VeggieTales and founder of both Big Idea Productions and Jellyfish Labs. The Freeman Lecture Series, established in 2014, is free and open to the public.