Stories

“That would be the worst job in the world!” I thought when I first heard of “recruiting full-time intercessors to join overseas church-planting teams.”

If you pass by 450 North Prince Street in Lancaster, you might think it’s just another office building with a coffee shop on the first floor. You might even think that Lancaster doesn’t need another building like this one, even if the coffee and tea are excellent. But that would be an incorrect assumption … because of other activities that you might not notice.

In the past few years, we refined our vision to focus on what we consider to be God’s call for us in this season: to catalyze Jesus movements among the least-reached; in places where there are very few Christians. We’ve specified some particular areas of the world that we want to focus on: Central Asia, Southeast Asia, Central Europe, and West Africa.

“Unexpected Peace” drew so much interest for its November 9 premiere that Penn Cinema in Lititz added three more showings to meet the demand. The film is a nominee for Best Picture in the Red Rose Film Festival, which is happening at both Penn Cinema and Zoetropolis in Lancaster City.

When the Vietnam Mennonite Church (VMC) was seeking legal recognition by the government, Pastor Nguyen Quang Trung, VMC president, now deceased, made it very clear that the VMC did not have leaders with formal training.