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VMMissions believes that the incarnation is God’s pattern for mission. Therefore, we equip people to be incarnational wherever they go by serving long-term (2+ years) with our transForm program.
It takes a clear sense of call from the Lord and a deep love for people. It takes a lot of investment in time, training, study, and financial resources to embark on a long-term assignment. Long-term commitment allows the space and time to build friendships and trust with people in your host culture, and for intensive language study if needed.
Living among the people you love and share the gospel with – over the course of years – is a powerful example of humility and solidarity with God’s people and everyone God is calling to repentance and reconciliation.
Opportunities
VMMissions has a number of open service opportunities for 2+ year term commitments. Opportunities are available for individuals, couples, and families, overseas and domestically. Assignments generally include intensive cultural and language learning (if applicable) and training in holistic witness.
Note: all listed service assignments are open for immediate consideration unless indicated. For shorter-term assignments, tranSend offers 1-2 year internships, and team-based opportunities (one to three weeks) are available through E3 Collective.
Join a team working with an array of businesses that transform communities through meeting local needs, operating with integrity and just compensation, and being a example of God's love and heart for justice in word and deed. Receive training, mentoring and support for long-term ministry through business.
Explore church planting and discipleship in the urban, post-Christian setting of Mannheim, Germany, known as one of the more intercultural cities in Germany. Join a team and help to resource a national network for persons interested in living out the gospel in their culture.
Study the Albanian language and Kosovar culture, and form a long-term church planting team, partner with existing believers, and plant gospel seeds through building community relationships.
Join the team in South Asia with current VMMissions workers as you learn language and culture in order to minister to one of the most under-reached people groups in the world while using your particular gifts and passions.
Join a team of people who bring maturity and passion for Jesus to a successful water filter factory business that is opening doorways for impact. Their gospel witness has flourished both among the factory staff, and through the witness of sales representatives with customers in the region.
Respond to God's call to help a Thai network of believers expand into new villages and focus on faith formation among new believers and the second and third generation believers. Join a ministry team with long-term workers engaging and serving with Life Enrichment Church.
Work with youth and families to promote discipleship in rural northeast Thailand. First generation believers have broken free from many types of bondage, but the challenge facing them now is to raise up the next generations to carry forward the gospel witness.
How We Understand Mission
VMMissions believes that the incarnation is God’s pattern for mission. To accomplish our salvation, God became one of us in Jesus Christ, humbling himself even to the point of death. We follow Christ’s example by deeply identifying with the people to whom he sends us, learning and respecting their languages and cultures, serving amid the risks associated with their settings, expressing the grace and truth of the gospel in contextually appropriate ways, and celebrating the reality that God is with us. (Mt 1:22-23, Jn 1:14, Phil 2:5-11)
Collaboration is our posture in mission. God intends the church to be an interdependent community of justice, joy and peace. On the cross, Jesus put to death our hostility toward God and one another, making reconciliation possible. As a result, we gladly partner with churches and ministries from the global body of Christ. Together, we call, equip, send and support believers from diverse backgrounds to offer their gifts in the work of God’s kingdom. (Is 2:1-5, Eph 2:11-22, Rv 5:9)
Multiplication is the intended result of mission. God’s first command to humanity was to flourish and grow, thereby spreading God’s peaceable rule over all the earth. Jesus called his disciples to “fish for people.” Paul entrusted the gospel to faithful people who in turn would teach it to others. Likewise, we seek to form healthy disciples, leaders and churches who multiply sustainable communities of worship, fellowship and mission. (Gn 1:28, Mk 1:17, 2 Tm 2:2)
How to Apply
Download a VMMissions Service Application and complete and email to Jason Showalter, Global Ministries Director.