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Prayer Request for Glen Guyton, Executive Director of Mennonite Church USA, and His Family

By Jon Trotter | November 12, 2021

Please join Mennonite Church USA and Virginia Mennonite Conference in prayer for Glen Guyton, executive director of Mennonite Church USA, and his family. It is with deep sadness that we share the news that Glen’s mother, Manetta Guyton, 93, of Kosciusko, Missouri, died on Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021. Manetta was a long-time Sunday school teacher…

Our Stories, God’s Story: Mennonite Women of Virginia retreat

By VMC Staff | January 19, 2016

[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”3″ gal_title=”Mennonite Womens Retreat 2015″] “My story is as sacred to God as God’s story is sacred to me. Nothing is lost on the breath of God,” became a familiar refrain by the end of Mennonite Women of Virginia retreat, October 30-November 1. A crisp fall weekend at Massanetta Springs Resort, near Harrisonburg,…

Four presentations in Harrisonburg by Cherith Nordling in September

By VMC Staff | August 11, 2014

Cherith Fee Nordling will give four presentations in Harrisonburg, September 15-17, on “Being Human, Becoming Christian: an embodied reconciliation of heaven and earth.” She asks, “Is our embodied humanity a temporary curse or permanent, glorious reality?” “Does salvation seem to imply getting out of our bodies, or is it about finally being at home in…