God is Fueling His Mission

God is Fueling His Mission – By Guest Author, Bob Rasmussen   Along with all gatherings, our MVC mission conference was cancelled due to the stay-at-home order. However, thanks to video technology, we had a terrific worship service, with a message from...

Your Love is Strong

Your Love is Strong by Guest Author, Casey Giffen   Singer songwriter Jon Foreman has a song entitled Your Love Is Strong. The lyrics relate an artistic interpretation to The Lord’s Prayer. Ironically, the first time I listened to Your Love Is Strong was...

Free from Worry

Free From Worry. MVC Guest Author – Michelle Van Vliet    “Therefore, I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds...

Dear Students

By Pastor Dan Navarra   Dear Students,  It’s the way I start this letter but it’s also a phrase describing my shepherd’s heart for you all. You are dear to me, students. No doubt, this quarantine that has caused your spring full of school and dreams of life to be...

An Invitation to Pendulate

A Formation Practice for Unsteady Times: Invitation to Pendulate   In his poem If, Rudyard Kipling puts words to what most of us would like to be able to say is true of us today; “If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs…” Despite all that...

Petitions and Praises

Submitted by Guest Author, Audrey Silva   Turning off the lights to my barren classroom, my chest tightens, my throat closes, tears well up in my eyes as I look at my classroom stripped of any recognition of the students or the teacher inhabitants that once...