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Stories of Mission

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Friends at Our Community Farm

Our Community Farm Internship Opportunity

Our Community Farm serves as both a residential drug and alcohol recovery community for up to eight male adults and a sustainable farm. Jonathan and Joel provided much needed mentorship and lay counsel to those coming to the farm.

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Aaron M. Kauffman

Virginia Mennonite Missions Selects President

Aaron M. Kauffman of Harrisonburg, Va., was chosen by the board of VMMissions as the next president. Kauffman has extensive mission experience, serving most recently on staff as Global Ministries Director and Advancement Associate since 2011.

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Team members and Maranatha students

Signs of Life Team Visits Maranatha School for the Deaf

Signs of Life church members went to Maranatha and conducted a seven-day Bible school on the book of James with the Maranatha students. All eight members of this team can communicate in American Sign Language, a first for a short-term mission team.

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Park View’s Blitz Packs 1,500+ Kits

A lot of congregations put school kits together for distribution by Mennonite Central Committee (MCC). But how many produce more than 1,500? Nearly a hundred assembly-line volunteers packed a total of 1,562 kits at Park View Mennonite Church, Harrisonburg, Virginia.

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Laura and Vera with Laura's girls

Learning Through Faith

Our main goal during our current term is language learning. We have a language tutor (and dear sister from the church), Vera (which means ‘faith’), who comes to our home twice a week and teaches us for one hour each-while the other parent watches the girls.

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Loren Horst

Start Here

Seven years ago VMMissions became intentional in providing a “doorway into missions.” People could start with VMMissions and go virtually anywhere that Mennonite missions has been involved, and beyond. The old mission “field” language is obsolete when referring only to some remote exotic far-off location.

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First Graduation at LAC, Bible Camp and Summer School Follow

LAC’s first graduation went off without a hitch. Sam Scaggs was our main speaker and additional comments were given by board member Elaine Moyer, Principal Klementina, and senior class president Xhild.

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Egypt’s Big Role in God’s Story

To know the story of Egypt is to know the whole Christian story at once—a story of personal calling, of provision, and of the promise of salvation. Although Christians number only ten percent of the population in Egypt, Angie has a deep sense of pride.

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tranSend class in 2013

Orientation for tranSend Interns Held at VMMissions

Orientation for service is multi-faceted; it includes heart, mind and soul. Each morning, participants listened for God’s voice in silence, watched for him in nature, and reflected on what God said to them in various settings, encouraging them to seek God heartily.

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Loren Horst

Why Short-term Missions?

If you or your congregation are thinking of a short-term mission experience, get in touch with us at VMMissions. We can help you turn a good idea into an excellent experience and avoid the kind of mistakes that have sometimes given short-term missions a bad name.

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Manuel and Aurora

Taking Bold Steps of Faith and Obedience in Palermo

As these two young people have grown as believers over the past couple of years, they both desired to be baptized as an expression of their faith in Christ. As Manuel and Aurora took this bold step, the church was filled with family and friends from throughout Sicily.

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Alan Hirsch

Forming Missional DNA in Our Congregations

“If you want to dig a new hole, don’t dig the current one deeper,” shared Alan Hirsch at a resource event on May 16 in Lancaster, Pa. Hirsch’s central thought is that God has implanted a missional DNA in every church that seeks to follow Jesus in any time and place.

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