Dorie Panganiban – Farmington, New Mexico … The month of April has been a busy month at La Vida Mission* (LVM). It started with a full weekend of events, April 12-13, hosted by Mike and Cathy Kissner, retired Rocky Mountain Conference (RMC) pastor and RMC Adventist Community Services coordinator, respectively.
The Kissners are used to coming to La Vida Mission every year with a truck load of donations for LVM that they gathered from the different churches in the Conference. They have been doing this hard “labor of love” for La Vida Mission for more than 30 years now.
But, April 12, Mike Kissner came to officiate the ordination of church elders, deacons, and deaconesses at the Sabbath service and providing a sermon at La Vida Mission Seventh-day Adventist Church in the morning and at the Crownpoint Seventh-day Adventist Fellowship in Crownpoint, New Mexico, in the evening.
Cathy Kissner conducted the CPR/AED and Disaster Response and Donation Operations training seminar for mission staff, local church officers, and some community members the following day, April 13. A total of 18 participants finished the classes.
Dorie Panganiban, LVM office manager, reflected on the training: “Everybody in attendance was grateful for the knowledge received from the training and feel more confident as they get involved in the community services of the church and in being a disaster responder.”
* La Vida Mission is a supporting ministry of the Seventh-day Adventist Church but is not affiliated with the Rocky Mountain Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
—Dorie Panganiban is the La Vida Mission office manager. Photos supplied.
