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Stories of Mission

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Reflections on the City of Rubble

My host’s voice carries a longing of someone who has lost a love. She sees through a lens of memory, now clouded with the blood, dust, and destruction of decades of war. She remembers more. I see only ruin.

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Checkups with members of the Haiti medical team

Medical Team Helps Hundreds in Haiti

When our medical team arrived in Haiti in February, we had a difficult time getting through customs with 14 suitcases of medication. We saw about 780 patients in five days of clinic.

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Manuel and Nancy

God is Showing the Way in the Midst of Trials

Kristel, 14, is deaf and likes to sign “God is so good” from a worship song during worship at Jesus Deaf Church. Manuel, 21, has grown in confidence and faith, and now knows with certainty that God has called him to pastor our church.

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God is Raising Up a New Pastoral Couple in Trinidad

Richard and Margaret Keeler quickly noticed the spiritual growth in a married couple at Sangre Grande Mennonite Church. Humble and teachable, they began participating in Friendship Bible Coffee (FBC) studies, and later became leaders, accepting additional responsibilities in the church.

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Rodney with Jamaican friends

Chickens, Pigs, and More at Maranatha School for the Deaf

We have been blessed to be a part of the work at Maranatha School for the Deaf and the local Mennonite Church. It’s awe-inspiring to see how God works in our lives and provides for us, the school, the church, and our friends.

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Peyton Erb with her host family

“Gracias a Dios” for Every Small Miracle

The Guatemalan people have been God’s light in my life. They have taught me to take higher value in my relationships, to stop worrying about the hour and instead focus on the present, and to be hospitable in my home, on the street, or in the bus.

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Terry Witmer (center right) with members of the women's group she meets with in La Mesa, Colombia

An Accidental Hair Appointment?

Our time in Colombia has been, from the beginning, enveloped in relationship: who we have come to know, who has put down roots in our hearts, and who we cry for in prayer. God has sewn our lives inextricably into the lives of so many people here.

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Willard and Eva Eberly (left) with Mara and Dino Colonna.

The Unfinished Task

Although those of us serving long-term with VMMissions face the constant challenge of overcoming spiritual barriers and strongholds, the persistent hope of establishing viable, Christ-centered churches with Italian leadership propels us forward.

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Riddles with son's classmates

Doors for Ministry Open Through Italian Schools

The schools that our boys attend have become major areas of ministry for us. We help teach English in the middle school. This has been an open door to talk to and be a healthy example to youth that have few good adult role models to follow.

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Norma Teles and Joshua Center children, 2012

Mission Encouragements at Joshua Center

It has been a cold winter here in Lezhe, but we have been blessed in a lot of ways. The work at Joshua Center is going well. I can see God working in a very special way in the lives of the little ones.

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Allen Umble (right) and Samuel Jablonski, member of the EMM YES team.

A Thirty-year Round Trip of Mission

Thirty years and the circle has come around complete. Only God knows what else will come around full circle in the next thirty years out of the obedience to the call of Jesus by his followers.

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Jessica Hedrick and LAC senior

Miraculous Turnaround at Lezha Academic Center

We have been through our share of fires this year at Lezha Academic Center. The first months of our ministry here were full of conflict. Each of us had days when we felt like throwing in the towel, but somehow we made it through.

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