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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Penny Power final total: $30,880
Early Saturday morning at the Virginia Relief Sale, volunteers from Park View Federal Credit Union dumped large blue jugs of coins and bills into a wheelbarrow and then into buckets. The coins went into the counting machine, and soon totals for congregations were finalized. With some funds coming in right after the sale, the total…
Read More“The harvest is plentiful, but…”
On November 1-3, Floyd and I attended the Italian Mennonite Church Conference held at Centro Agape in Palermo, Italy. It is always a joy to return to our Italian family, re-connecting with old friends and meeting new ones. The past year has been particularly difficult because of the untimely deaths of three persons in the…
Read MoreSigns of Life creates space for worship in Deaf culture
MaryBeth and Chris Moore expected God would call them to use their training as nurses to go to impoverished places. So they were surprised in 2000 when they felt convicted to adopt Mynor, an 8-year-old from Guatemala who is deaf. “It was one of those things where if we hadn’t adopted him, it would have…
Read MoreMHI becomes ministry of Virginia Mennonite Missions
Five years ago, Mennonite Hispanic Initiative (MHI) was formed for the purpose of developing Anabaptist Latino ministry within Virginia Conference. In recent months MHI has become nested within Virginia Mennonite Missions, joining common goals of the two organizations into a single focus. VMM seeks to nurture a missional movement within the conference; MHI has sought…
Read MoreSharing the light of Christ in Kosovo
Burnt and abandoned houses dot the countryside of Kosovo as we drive west and north on the highway. These houses and the bullet-pocked businesses lining the highway are scars of war and the accompanying hostilities that are recent in the history and consciousness of Kosovars. As we continue on our drive through the country from…
Read MoreHernandez named local coordinator of IBA
Lizzette Hernandez will serve as the new coordinator of the local Spanish-language Anabaptist Biblical Institute (IBA), a program under the auspices of Mennonite Education Agency that offers diplomas in Theological Studies to Latino church leaders. Lizzette, a third-year Master of Divinity student at Eastern Mennonite Seminary, has been teaching in the IBA program for the…
Read MoreUpcoming international learning tours
Registration is now open for the upcoming Nazareth/Bethlehem Work Group, May 2-19, 2014, sponsored by VMM as part of the Partners program.The work group will engage in work projects at Nazareth Village and at Diyar Consortium, a ministry of Christmas Lutheran Church, Bethlehem. Registrations will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information,…
Read MoreVMC Women’s Retreat focuses on ‘Familiar Blessings, Blowing Spirit’
Some 85 sisters considered the spirituality of our parents and grandparents and how we focus on Jesus today during the annual Virginia Mennonite Conference Women’s Retreat, Sept. 27-29 in Lynchburg, Va. Attendees came from some 20 VMC congregations. The retreat was held at the beautiful wooded Eagle Eyrie Baptist Conference Center. Dawn Ruth Nelson, Mennonite…
Read MoreMaking disciples, creating communities—not just churches
Jesus did not call us to build churches but to make disciples. These were the simple and true yet profound words from Bro. Skip Tobin as he commenced the Saturday session of a three-day church planting seminar with members of the Mennonite Church of Trinidad and Tobago (MCTT). The focal point of the Saturday session…
Read MoreVMM welcomes two new staff members
Virginia Mennonite Missions is pleased to welcome Lynn Suter and Sherah-Leigh Gerber as new staff members. Beginning January 6, 2014, Lynn Suter will begin employment with Virginia Mennonite Missions as Director of Operations and International Ministries. This position will have two key areas of responsibility: assisting the President by providing oversight to the internal operations…
Read MoreEnding and emerging
I come to the end of my presidency of VMMissions at the conclusion of 2013. As tenures go, eleven-and-a-half years is not so long. Earlene and I for the most part are not record-breakers. Add to these years, however, our years assisting two church plants in Virginia Conference, pastoring other churches, serving overseas with VMMissions,…
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