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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The Ultimate Adventure Story
“I want this next generation to embrace the challenge leveled at all of humanity in the life of Christ: the challenge that those who wish to be the greatest must be the servant of all,” Ken Wettig writes. “My hope is that SLAQ would be an invitation for young people to be apprenticed to the one person in human history whose Spirit is still present with us today: Jesus of Nazareth.”
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A Vision for Creating Community
People around us are longing for community, but they are not turning to the church. This has been our challenge over the course of the past few years. But in a poor and immigrant-dense part of Mannheim, our Villa experimentis bursting at the seams with life.
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What God Sees For Central Asia
“We sense that we are on the brink of a breakthrough that God wants to bring to this region,” Em says. “For me there is exhilaration edged with nervous anticipation. For Jay there is vigorous and contagious confidence, a beautiful sense of clarity as to what we are to be doing.”
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A Church That Stays Standing
Steve and Laura Campbell’s hope has been to plant Christ as the seed so that a Montenegrin church can grow. “We have worked for the Lord, not for people. This has been both rewarding and intensely draining. We are only responsible for pointing people to God,” they write.
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VMMissions Opens New Category for ‘Marketplace Workers’
The “marketplace worker” category supports and equips believers to “live out God’s kingdom in every sphere of life.” This category enables persons employed in trades or professions to receive coaching toward fruitful ministry in the workplace.
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Putting on God’s Glasses
In leading a 103-year-old mission agency, I confess it can be hard to see where we’re headed sometimes. We do our best to craft careful plans. But to see the present clearly and make sense of it, it helps me to put on the lenses of God’s future.
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Douglas Senior, Beloved Leader in Jamaica Mennonite Church, Dies at 75
Pastor Senior made a great contribution to the development and significant ministry of the Maranatha School for the Deaf in St. Elizabeth, Jamaica. He was known for his warm personality, integrity, prayer life, dignified yet commanding presence, and strong Christian faith.
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Seeds are Bursting Forth with New Life
Patience is hard. We see a broken world in need of Christ and want change to happen right now. But seeds lie dormant for a long time before springing to life. Thank you for providing the support that allows our ministries to bear lasting fruit for God’s kingdom.
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Worker profile: Nathan Carr
Nathan is serving in prison ministry, involved in reaching out to men like himself—helping to draw them out of addiction towards Christ. He can see the joy in the men he relates to when they surrender to Jesus, because he knows the new life that lies ahead for them.
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Call to Prayer: Discovering Parallels with the Past
An Indian believer gave Ruthy and her teammates a church history book describing mission work that had began happening across northern India in the late 1800s and workers who dedicated the majority of their lives there. “What a gift to read their prayer list!” she writes.
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Sentness is a Life Sentence
“We’ve learned to pay attention when a God-given “holy restlessness” emerges within us,” Lee and Peg Martin write. “During these times, we pray for alertness to new doors God might be opening, while seeking to be steady and faithful in our present calling.”
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A Change of Focus, Not of Call
When the most vulnerable and broken people in La Vega, Dominican Republic, came to Christ, Diomedes Franco would refer them to the nearest church to be nurtured, but then he realized that those churches were not ready to disciple people with such brokenness.
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