100.vmmissions.orgVMMissions Centennial – Celebrating 100

Years News & updates Events The VMMissions story Photos & video VMMissions.org Donate VMMissions: Celebrating 100 Years Recognizing current and former board members at the centennial Donor and Prayer Partners Banquet. Thank you for joining us in our Centennial celebrations in 2019. Catch up on the latest news and special commemorative content , and browse through a collection of photos and video from our first 100 years. News & Updates A Dream, a Need, a Gift: the Launch of tranSend As told by Ken Horst and Sarah E. Slabaugh Over 100 persons have explored their sense of call to mission through tranSend since the program began in 2005. What were the dreams and needs behind this one-year mission internship program, and how did it become a reality? With his beard and bib overalls, Bob Histand didn’t look any more like a millionaire than a mission mobilizer. But, in fact, he was both. Three… Read More Extending the Reach to Every Nation, Tribe and Tongue By Carol Tobin How does VMMissions direct the missional energy of the church towards those who have not yet heard? With a fan whirring lazily from the ceiling, Michael and Ruthy gathered to pray with their teammates around the map of the South Asian city that was spread out on the table in front of them. After several years of learning language and culture in another city where they were the first… Read More The Walls Came Tumbling Down: Our Entrance Into Albania As told by Willard and Eva Eberly We were swept along, praising God for opportunities!” Willard exclaimed as he reminisced about the beginnings of the work in Albania. We didn’t program it! We connected with him and we could hardly keep up with it!” The story of Mennonite mission in Albania begins with Gesina Blaauw, a Dutch Mennonite woman who had moved to Sicily to establish a Christian bookstore with Christian Literature Crusade.… Read More Will You Go? Our Expansion into the Caribbean By Carol Tobin Twila Y. Brunk’s book, Together in the Lord, is an engaging account of the first twenty-five years of the Jamaican Mennonite Church. The following recounts those beginnings, as well as the expansion of VMMissions’ work into Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago. An elderly pastor and his wife from Manitoba traveled to Florida for health reasons. D.H. and Annie Loewen sensed the Lord saying that a mission station should be opened… Read More From the archives Mahlon Blosser preached at first service in Good Tidings Church, Kingston, Jamaica 1957, with Roy Kiser (VMC Archives) See more photos → What’s happening at VMMissions? E3 Collective E 3 Collective is an initiative of VMMissions that invites followers of Jesus to participate in healthy and holistic short-term (a week or more) mission experiences. As the name collective” suggests, these are team-based experiences. Learn More & Apply 601 Parkwood Drive Harrisonburg, VA 22802 Phone: 540-434-9727 Toll-free: 800-707-5535 E-mail: [email protected] Copyright © 2024, Virginia Mennonite Missions. All...