Stories from the Field

Lummi Island is accessed by a 20-car ferry.  On any given Saturday during tourist season, the island is a magnet for day-travelers.  This particular day, there was a wedding on the island as well as a separate reception for the daughter and son-in-law of Village Missionaries Chris and Tammy Immer.  It was NOT a good […]

We are continuing to see people returning to the church and welcome newcomers who have moved into the community. Those who remained faithful during the difficult times are excited to see the pews fill up again and to be reunited with those who had left! In the past, the church partnered with the Baptist church

Another Village Missions church — Union Chapel Community Church in West Liberty, Ohio — sent a work team to our church.  They got so much done, and they were a huge blessing to us!  One of the projects they did was remove the unneeded handicap-access ramp and install it at the house of an elderly lady who needed

After we returned from the Village Missions Staff Conference, I (Robert) made a follow-up call to a young lady named Tandy who used to attend youth meetings years ago.  It turned out that the day I called, she was going through a very severe trial and started crying out to God.  She took my call

The church board members and I have been going through the book Developing Leaders for the Small Church by Glenn Daman and watching the companion videos. It has opened the eyes of our whole board as to what is the responsibility of the church leadership. I proposed that each board member select four people in the congregation

This year during the 79th Annual Stonyford Rodeo we moved our church service to the rodeo grounds for “Cowboy Church.” The service was well attended by our church members as well as out-of-town guests. Since then we’ve seen a few new folks attending our fellowship. Bigger than all of that is the immeasurable impact: the

On Saturday a beautiful thing happened. One of our members organized a pine needle-raking clean-up for another member who’s still recovering from Covid. Altogether there were 15 of us raking and collecting the pine needles into about 50 trash bags. One person who helped said that this was one of the best things our church has done

This week we also had our last youth meeting for the school year. It went pretty well. We had a kid show up who never came before and he still received the gospel message personally and a gift to remember it through the summer. That was an exciting thing to say that everyone who came

Leslie had a neat experience with her kids down in Foundations (Junior Church). She asked the kids what it meant to to be a Christian. She received answers about church attendance, being the best version of themselves and various other answers.  After explaining to them that none of those things makes you a Christian but only accepting

The fire department has been tremendously busy this month. Mostly grass fires, but we had a car accident and a house fire.  The house fire had a neat incident.  After we got the house out, myself and a couple other members went inside to try to recover some valuable and necessary items – hearing aids, truck

I had the opportunity to talk with a girl about my age who has been searching for Truth. She had attended a number of churches and was full of questions about church and the Bible. So I did my best to answer her questions while telling her about our personal call to ministry and bringing