Virginia Mennonite Conference
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Virginia Mennonite Conference is a conference member of Mennonite Church USA, and is a body of 65 Mennonite churches in the south-Atlantic region of the United States, consisting of Virginia, North Carolina, West Virginia, and the city of Washington D.C. There are also a few Conference churches in Tennessee and Kentucky, as well as one in Ohio, the result of church planting efforts. The churches make up districts including: Northern, Southern, Central, Harrisonburg, Potomac, Eastern, Calvary, Tennessee/Carolina/Kentucky, and Eastern Carolina Districts.
The conference office is located in Harrisonburg, Virginia. The office employs Owen Burkholder, Conference Minister; Sarah Bixler, Interim Conference Youth Minister, Steven Carpenter, Conference Coordinator, and other staff. Virginia Mennonite Conference is overseen by Conference Council, a group that makes larger decisions about the work of the Conference, appoints overseers for the different districts, and credentials ministers.
Virginia Mennonite Conference publishes a monthly newsletter Connections in conjunction with Virginia Mennonite Board of Missions, which is the mission agency of the Conference.
