God’s Worldwide Team

Discipleship has been our focus for our ministry here in Montenegro. Our desire is to introduce Christ and the concepts for his kingdom, and help the church sort out what that looks like in this culture. We talk a great deal about building a bridge instead of a wall.

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Loving Our Refugee Neighbors

The couple of hundred refugees that Harrisonburg receives each year, coming from places such as Syria, Eritrea, Iraq, Cuba, and Congo, are not helpless people that we should feel bad for. In fact, it’s quite the opposite—they are fighters that we should respect.

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Coworkers for the Kingdom

Aaron M. Kauffman

The church often longs for heroes, just like our broader culture. We want spiritual giants whose gifts and charisma loom larger than life. Even so, I’d like to suggest that heroes are not the primary way God brings about transformation in the world.

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Local Church, Global Body

A baptism in Lezhe, Albania

The more effective the collaboration, the more we have hope for lives affected and changed. After people come to the full knowledge of revealed truth, which is salvation in Jesus, we want to disciple them to be able to share the same grace they have received with others.

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Partners in Planting

VMMissions is trying new approaches for church planters. One such approach is the Covenant Partners for New Church Initiatives, which outlines the gifts and responsibilities of everyone involved: church planter, mission agency, and the group of existing congregations who will sponsor the work.

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What is Church?

Vince lives in a town in Kosovo where there is no church currently meeting. He has been called to become church on the fly and in common or routine actions. More often than not, he has no pre-set schedule for what church typically looks like.

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Mission and the Church in a Post-Christian Context

The Stutzman family

When David Stutzman talks about mission in the Western context, he is often surprised about how the post-Christian reality doesn’t catalyze much change within the church. It is as if there is an awareness of the tremendous change going on, but it doesn’t lead to much action.

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A Tidal Wave is Coming!

Shrine in South Asia

God has given us these instructions: “Devote yourself to prayer and the ministry of the Word” (Acts 6:4). It’s not about lifting up our own feeble attempts and ideas to fix all the problems around us. It means entering into God’s presence to hear what his plans are.

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