Posts by VMMissions Staff
Transformed, Transforming.
All of us at Virginia Mennonite Missions share in common the desire to be instruments of God’s transformation. Then, transformation turns around and continues to change us! Thinking we were the ones changing others, we discover that we are the ones being changed.
Read MoreMennonite Church in Trinidad Now “Totally Local”
For many years Trinidadians have been the primary pastors in congregations with VMMissions lending assistance from time to time as requested. Several years ago MCTT embarked on a deliberate effort to discern and call out a local overseer.
Read MoreOur Core Values
One way to promote integrity and reduce hypocrisy is to write down our core values, share them with others, and then openly compare what we do and what we say. Sometimes the results are gratifying. Sometimes they identify areas in which we need to grow.
Read MoreThe Gospel in Cultural Context
Wiang was attending a gathering of followers of Jesus. Questions and cynicism dominated her life since the tragic death of her husband in a tractor accident. The things she had heard and read hadn’t broken through the hard places in her heart. But the joyful dancing she was witnessing did.
Read MoreBaptism as Remembering
I attended a baptismal service again recently, and it brought to mind my own baptism 47 years ago. I didn’t understand everything, but enough to know that the faith of my parents was not something to be absorbed by association, but by deliberate conviction and decision.
Read MoreA Half-Serious Lament
With a bit of sadness this summer, I witnessed the final decisions associated with dissolving Ohio District of Virginia Mennonite Conference. It made sense since the district had essentially become an “empty set,” but a nearly 60-year era has passed.
Read MoreVision becomes reality for Lezha Academic Center
Lezha Academic Center, a vision of Klementina and Dini Shahini and an initiative supported by Virginia Mennonite Missions and Eastern Mennonite Missions, will open its doors in Lezhe, Albania in September 2011. A Vision Support Team is providing oversight to the school.
Read MoreWe Could Never Do This On Our Own
“We could never do it on our own.” These or similar words express the sentiment of everyone at VMMissions—our staff, our board and our workers. We constantly receive reminders that we are involved in something far larger than ourselves
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