Reaching out
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Mountain View Fellowship reaches out to its neighbors through such events as an Easter Egg Hunt on the Saturday before Easter with a variety of activities for children in addition to the egg hunt. We collaborate with three local churches in McGaheysville to offer Vacation Bible School each summer, and we hold a Trunk-or-Treat and Pet Parade each October. From May through September we hold monthly community picnics in which we invite residents of specific neighborhoods to come to our pavilion for food and fellowship and an opportunity to meet other people from their neighborhoods. Many in the community join us as we have ice cream and music and watch fireworks on Massanutten Mountain for the Fourth of July. We have a float in the McGaheysville Parade each July where we pass out bottles of water in reference to Jesus' “living water.” We provide weekend meals to children at Cub Run Elementary School through the Backpack Program as well as coats or other needs at Christmas time. We have helped build ramps and repair roofs on occasion. Our youth and others visit nearby nursing homes to sing Christmas carols each December.
The Bethel Bible Series is held on Wednesday mornings and Thursday evenings, with a meal and children/youth activities added on Thursday evening "Family Nights." A Zoom prayer meeting is held Wednesday evenings and the youth meet twice a month on Sunday evenings with a local church for Bible study, activities, and refreshments.
Outside our community, several of our members have taken part in the Brethren Volunteer Service program and some participate in Brethren Disaster Service, which helps communities rebuild after hurricanes and flooding and other disasters. For the past several years the church has held a Mission Weekend in September in which we host speakers and hold a fundraising event to support mission work in various areas, including a Mennonite ministry in Thailand whose missionaries are children of members of the church, a ministry in Guatemala with family connections to a member of church, and for Church of the Brethren outreach in South Sudan.
Mountain View Fellowship reaches out to its neighbors through such events as an Easter Egg Hunt on the Saturday before Easter with a variety of activities for children in addition to the egg hunt. We collaborate with three local churches in McGaheysville to offer Vacation Bible School each summer, and we hold a Trunk-or-Treat and Pet Parade each October. From May through September we hold monthly community picnics in which we invite residents of specific neighborhoods to come to our pavilion for food and fellowship and an opportunity to meet other people from their neighborhoods. Many in the community join us as we have ice cream and music and watch fireworks on Massanutten Mountain for the Fourth of July. We have a float in the McGaheysville Parade each July where we pass out bottles of water in reference to Jesus' “living water.” We provide weekend meals to children at Cub Run Elementary School through the Backpack Program as well as coats or other needs at Christmas time. We have helped build ramps and repair roofs on occasion. Our youth and others visit nearby nursing homes to sing Christmas carols each December.
The Bethel Bible Series is held on Wednesday mornings and Thursday evenings, with a meal and children/youth activities added on Thursday evening "Family Nights." A Zoom prayer meeting is held Wednesday evenings and the youth meet twice a month on Sunday evenings with a local church for Bible study, activities, and refreshments.
Outside our community, several of our members have taken part in the Brethren Volunteer Service program and some participate in Brethren Disaster Service, which helps communities rebuild after hurricanes and flooding and other disasters. For the past several years the church has held a Mission Weekend in September in which we host speakers and hold a fundraising event to support mission work in various areas, including a Mennonite ministry in Thailand whose missionaries are children of members of the church, a ministry in Guatemala with family connections to a member of church, and for Church of the Brethren outreach in South Sudan.
