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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What Do Motorcycles Have to Do With Mission?
An idea that started at Powhatan Mennonite Church ten years ago has now raised nearly $115,000 to support the mission of VMMissions to “equip the church to share new life in Christ with neighbors near and far.” And this year’s tenth anniversary ride broke records, including the amount raised for missions!
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VMMissions Celebrates 30 Years of Involvement in Albania
As many persons gather June 18-19 in Albania to celebrate 30 years of Guri i Themelit Church, and 10 years of Lezha Academic Center in Lezhë, Albania, learn more about the long involvement of VMMissions in Albania.
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The Gospel is for Everyone
We launched A Church of Many Cultures in 2021 with the goal of raising $3 million for three new areas of ministry: Business for Transformation, Global Church Planting, and a Mission Training Center. I am happy to share that as of this month, we have raised nearly $2.7 million.
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Worker profile: Andressa Coutinho
Andressa’s assignment consists of cultural and linguistic learning as well as support of the church planting ministry of Albanian leaders and VMMissions workers Rafael and Solange Tartari, currently serving in northern Albania in the city of Shkodër.
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Call to Prayer: Reminding Ourselves of God’s Future
“It is good that we remind ourselves of God’s future…So often, our prayers reflect our present sorrows, weariness and broken hopes. Our God wants to hear those things, for he cares deeply about us. But, God also wants to speak to us about what he wants to do,” Ruthy writes.
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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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