Stories of Mission
Explore mission themes in our quarterly magazine as workers tell stories of making disciples in the way of Christ.
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A Snapshot of Kids Club with Seth and Theresa Crissman
Every Monday evening at Immanuel Mennonite Church, you can find volunteers in blue t-shirts with around 40 children, pre-K through 8th grade. Together, they sing, act and retell stories from the Bible, eat and play together as they learn to give and receive God’s love with each other.
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New Creation Opens Shop to Combat Sex Trafficking
God led Caitlin to stay in her own community and to work with New Creation, a Harrisonburg, Virginia, ministry that combats human trafficking. Her heart was drawn to this business fulfilling a need and shining the light of Christ.
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Living the Incarnation
If you joined our team, we would have you live with a local Muslim family for about a year. It is terribly hard: You must eat and sleep as the family eats and sleeps, and function without any English. All of our teammates can attest to days in which each moment was painful.
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Being a Bridge
I need to be God’s humble servant (at least that feels more comfortable to me than being his raging prophet) sharing God’s love when trying to bring the good news into another culture. Only as I really know the culture and love the people will I be aware of how to address the culture’s issues.
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Extending God’s Embrace
On the cross, Jesus extends his arms in an embrace that’s big enough to reach our entire broken world. Embrace is a compelling image for mission in a divided world. Like Jesus, we open our arms to others, inviting them to the kingdom. To make the offer understood, we learn their language and adopt their customs.
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Twinkle’s journey: The education of a Kalinga missionary in the Philippines
Twinkle’s early missionary zeal persisted through her teenage years, as did a sense of inferiority regarding her Cordilleran identity. She was seventeen before, as she says, “I fully embraced my identity as a Kalinga without the shame.”
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Learning to Walk After Jesus
I moved to the slums four years ago. My mind was full of big ideas of hope and the dream of seeing slum communities transformed by the love of Jesus. But in my time here, I have witnessed grueling poverty, a devastating fire, demolition and eviction of over 1,000 homes. What does discipleship mean in such a context?
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Come to the Table
The idea of meeting around the table for a meal and talking, listening and telling stories is all a part of the Mediterranean culture and has been for centuries. During our time in Italy, we were able to experience fellowship at the table as opportunities to share with them the hope of Christ.
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Know Them by Their Fruit
What motivates you? What underlying beliefs and values inform the decisions you make? These are hard questions for many people to answer. Our convictions and motivations often lie below the surface, beyond our full awareness. Yet they are at work all the time.
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Gospel Openings But Few Workers in Hmong Villages
Jonah Yang was part of a team that took 730 pairs of glasses donated to the Lion’s Club to Thailand. These were distributed among seven villages. The majority of the people who received the glasses were non-Christians, and it gave him and the team a good opportunity to live and share the gospel.
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Renewing our Connections
For the past 25 years, Virginia Mennonite Conference (VMC) and VMMissions have shared the publication, Connections. VMC Executive Conference Minister Clyde Kratz and Aaron Kauffman discuss challenges and dreams that have emerged about this communication tool.
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Milk Plant Builds Trust in Kosovo
Whitney’s love of working with dairy cows and her desire to follow God led her to work in Kosovo. So far, she has been here for five months, and for four of those months she has worked at a local milk collection and processing center called Jeta e Re, which means “new life.”
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