Meetings Resume!
We’ve been waiting a long time for this: we’re resuming face-to-face meetings! Thursday, 6:30 pm (meeting now): Baptist Youth Center, 700 W. Market St. (about a half mile west Read More
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Our Facebook Is Down
Someone hacked our Facebook account. We managed to reclaim it, but we can’t get in. Oddly, Facebook now requires you to be logged in ion order to log in. We’ve Read More
Healing the Hopeless
This sermon, preached via Zoom for Immanuel Mennonite Church, uses the story of the Gerasene Demoniac to describe the nature of addiction, the challenges to Church faces in addressing it, Read More
Financial Update
I (D.J.) have raised enough funds to become sponsored by Virginia Mennonite Missions (VMM) as an intern. That means I’m officially a 3/4 time missionary, so I no longer have Read More
Is God Listening?
With everything going on in our lives and in the world, we may wonder of God is listening to our prayers. Malachi 3:1-7 offers a challenging look at this question.
“A Most Practical Book”
My eyes have been opened to dimensions of addiction I never knew about. One of the most practical books I have read in a long while, I expect to use Read More
The Problem with Religion
Religion is powerful. It has justified and motivated wars that have killed millions of people. And it has moved people to great social change, from nonviolent movements like the abolition Read More
Miracles Among Us?
Do you see miracles in the world? I do. Every person who recovers from addiction is evidence of God’s work in the world. That may be the best reason why Read More
Newsletter October 2020
The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned. –Isaiah 9:2 It’s Official! On October 11, D.J. Read More
D.J. Mitchell Installed as Special Minister
D.J. Mitchell (left) was installed as a Special Minister with Virginia Mennonite Conference on October 11, 2020 at New Song Anabaptist Fellowship. Pastor Basil Marin led the service, and D.J.’s Read More