God is doing something new! Rev. Nancy Robinson has accepted the position of Global Missions Coordinator with the conference Office of Missional & Community Engagement.
Nancy will serve within the office as a liaison between the Board of Global Ministries and the Virginia Conference as the Conference Secretary of Global Ministries (CSGM) and provide leadership for The Virginia Partnerships of Hope.
Rev. Amanda Miller Garber, conference Director of Missional & Community Engagement, shared that Nancy will be “reimagining with us our part in sharing the gospel as a conference, as local churches and as individuals – all of us called into meaningful discipleship and relationships with missionaries to transform and nurture hope in a hurting world.”
Nancy brings over three decades of United Methodist mission experience in local, national and global contexts. As a Global Ministries missionary to Sierra Leone and serving as the Southeast Jurisdiction Global Mission Advocate, she fostered connections between Annual Conferences and missionaries and the work of the UMC Global Ministries.
Nancy’s connection to mission goes all the way back to her roots in southern Africa where she was born of Methodist missionary parents in S. Rhodesia, what is now Zimbabwe. Returning there after an absence of 26 years on a Volunteer In Mission team kicked off participation in more than two dozen UMVIM teams to Africa, Latin America and Asia, a call to ordained ministry and being a commissioned missionary. Undergirding her life work in mission is the example of the Shona practice ‘Kuperekedza’, to come alongside and accompany another –‘hospitate’.
Nancy is currently on the Board of Ordained Ministry as worship leader for the provisional team, leads small group seminars and retreats, Bible study, and was appointed as a pastor in the Three Notch’d District for five years before retiring.
She is an ordained deacon in full connection and is passionately and thoroughly enjoying her family and gardening. Welcome, Nancy (and Kip) Robinson!