Three years ago, when Miguel Bernedo, a pastor in Mountain View Conference's Parkersburg district, was invited to have dinner with some community folks, he never imagined where it would lead.
In mid-spring, more than 2,300 people toured Messiah’s Mansion in Logan, W.Va. Community member Andrea White from Chapmanville, W.Va., summarized her experience perfectly: “It was an amazing tour, and it was very interesting and eye-opening!”
When the Mountain View Conference introduced their new initiative, “Let’s Grow Together," they provided their pastors with a yearly blueprint, full of program ideas of how to accomplish it.
The Mountain View Conference welcomes Lynnwood Spangler, the Summersville church district pastor, and Roger Curtis, the Buckhannon, Glenville and Parsons church district pastor.
When he joined a nondenominational Facebook group for pastors, D.W. West, pastor of the Charleston Boulevard/Point Pleasant district, never dreamed that someday his decision would take him around the world.
Allegheny West Conference’s Multicultural Department, in partnership with Mountain View Conference (MVC), recently went on a mission trip to India. Sixty-one missionaries got on a plane and arrived in the city of Hyderabad two days later.
Recently, a group of 16 brave Mountain View Conference members ventured across the Atlantic Ocean to serve in India on a short-term mission trip to serve “the least of these.”
This April, as the Mountain View Conference moves into a new quinquennium, I cannot help but see how far we have come. Prayer has been the foundation and will continue to be as we press forward.
