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2025 Oklahoma City Mission Trip Update 1
May 19, 2025 | Kathy Smarrella
Good evening friends! Hello from Oklahoma City! Our Oklahoma City (OKC) mission team arrived to the OK City Center last evening, after a long 14-hour bus drive from Mishawaka. The bus trip was uneventful (which we are grateful for) and several...
More Than Words
May 13, 2025 | Joyce Moe
Many of us are familiar with the words about love recorded in 1 Corinthians 13. Those verses about love being patient, kind, not easily angered, not envying or boasting and always protecting, trusting, hoping and persevering are even written on...
Spread the Word
April 29, 2025 | Nichole Kirkpatrick
We all know the ripple effect and how our actions and behaviors affect the people in our lives. I was brought up in a Christian household my whole life thanks to my mother. My father was religious too, but my mother was more active with it. She...
The Weight of Guilt—And the Grace That Lifts It
April 22, 2025 | Russ Moe
The earth was frozen beneath me, cold seeping through my jeans as I knelt. My hands pressed into the damp grass, slick with morning dew, the scent of earth and frost filling my lungs. My body convulsed, shoulders jerking with each sob. My face...
The Invitation
April 8, 2025 | Joyce Moe
Hello dear Vineyard Family, I’m new to the Creative Writing Team, although I’ve always loved working with words. I never liked poems, however, until a college English professor played songs and suggested the lyrics were like stanzas...