2018 Archives - Virginia Mennonite Missions

Thank you for helping us share the greatest gift ever given

Thank you for your generosity as we finished 2018. We raised $103,401, or 92% of our Mission Fund goal. Thank you for helping us share the greatest gift ever given?

VMMissions short-term programs now accredited

VMMissions is excited to announce that it has passed the accreditation process with Standards of Excellence in Short-term Missions (SOE) and is now a fully accredited member of SOE.

Grants received for Thailand Anabaptist Gathering

Traveling for up to 14 hour by public bus, van and train, Anabaptist believers from Thailand and Laos gathered together in Chonburi, Thailand, for a rich time of lively worship, fellowship and interactive teaching at the 4th Thailand Anabaptist Gathering (TAG), October 8-12, 2018.

Consider Alternative Christmas Gifts this holiday season

Each year, VMMissions workers propose projects to meet some special or immediate need for our Alternative Christmas Gifts program. Consider a gift to engage their ministry passion and enhance their mission.

New ways of being church

Instead of asking, “Why aren’t people coming to our church? Where is the younger generation? What is the future of the church?” we need to be asking, “Where is God at work? How can we participate in what God is doing in this context? What are we inviting people to be part of?”

A culture of multiplication

If you were asked, “What are the irreducible minimums of the church?” what would you say? An assembly of some number? What number? A pattern of assembling? What’s the pattern and what mission and values would it reflect? Beyond discerning that biblically, and agreeing what church should be for a particular context, how would you multiply it?

Donors & Prayer Partners Banquet is November 17

As a small token of our gratitude for the ways in which you have prayed earnestly and given generously to the work that God is doing through Virginia Mennonite Missions, we invite you to an evening of food, music and stories of our work in the past year and right now.

Results of fiscal year end campaign

We are seeing the fruit of changed lives and communities that God is producing through our ministries! Like an abundant harvest, a great deal of work lies behind these fruitful ministries. Thank you for making this possible.

N.T. Wright to give lectures in Harrisonburg, VA

Prolific writer and New Testament scholar N.T. Wright will give a series of presentations on “Discerning the Dawn” in Harrisonburg, Va., November 13-14.

From anywhere to anyone

At first glance, the idea of all of us “going” sounds like a perfect recipe for chaos! But, somehow, this is what the Holy Spirit does when he gets a hold of us. Our hearts enlarge. Our vision expands. We go beyond our culturally comfortable borders.

Called to go: Norma’s story

Norma Teles is a Brazilian VMMissions worker in Lezhë, Albania, working with Roma children at the school she has founded, the Joshua Center. By Norma Teles Norma Teles at the Joshua Center. Courtesy of Janet Blosser I grew up in a Christian family with nine siblings in Salvadore, Brazil. I was expected to…