Michael Santana

Michael Michael Santana

USA, Virginia, Harrisonburg

Michael (name changed) is serving as a ministry apprentice at Mosaic of Grace Church, Harrisonburg, Virginia. As part of his internship, he served for several months alongside long-term workers in a slum in Southeast Asia and is currently exploring a possible return to that largely Muslim context.

Randall Schlabach

Randall Randall Schlabach

USA, Ohio, Mt. Eaton

Randall is a pastor who is launching a recovery ministry from pornography addiction for men in Wayne and Holmes counties in Ohio. His plan is to offer men’s groups that revolve around two Christian recovery programs, a well-known 10-week study called The Conquer Series, and also an eight-month program called Seven Pillars of Freedom.

Lewis and Ashley Roberts

Lewis and Ashley Lewis and Ashley Roberts

USA, Virginia, Harrisonburg

Lewis and Ashley’s tranSend internship gives them an opportunity to grow in leadership as local recovery mission workers. They have already been living into Jesus’ new life and learning what it is to be a family on mission, and they have many powerful stories to share about how God has met them, changed them and through them is changing other men and women too!

Joy Joy M.

Central Asia

Joy M. (name changed) has been appointed to a tranSend assignment, serving on the Central Asia launch team and teaching at an international school. She will spend half-time in language learning and connecting with the launch team, and half-time teaching.

Elaine Elaine U.

Central Asia

Elaine U. (name changed) has been appointed to a tranSend assignment, serving on the Central Asia launch team and teaching Elementary English and Government/Social Studies at upper levels. She will spend half-time in language learning and connecting with the launch team, and half-time teaching.

Agape Home, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Thailand: Minister at a Christian-run orphanage in Chiang Mai

Southeast Asia, Chiang Mai

Serve on an short-term team ministering at Agape Home, a Christian-run orphanage in Chiang Mai, Thailand, alongside VMMissions worker Rissa Martin. Serve May 25 – June 4, 2024.

South Asia

Adam and Elise Adam and Elise Sauder

USA, South Carolina, Myrtle Beach

Adam and Elise (names changed) have been appointed by VMMissions as Associated Workers serving with YWAM (Youth With A Mission) at the YWAM Myrtle Beach base and will lead teams in global mission experiences in Asia and Europe.

Kenya: Soccer Camp

Soccer Camp in Kenya

Africa, Diani

Love to play soccer? Love to share God’s good news? Join an E3 Collective team to southern Kenya in July 2024, centered around a soccer camp outreach that will bless and engage with local kids and adults. (Apply by February 29.)

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Thailand: Church-planting Intern

Southeast Asia, Ubon Ratchathani province

Do you have a heart for the unreached? Do you long to connect with what God is doing on the frontiers of the Kingdom? Join long-term workers in northeastern Thailand in the rhythms of cross-cultural pioneer church-planting among one of the most unreached people groups in Southeast Asia.

Huntington Mennonite Church

United States: Ministry Intern

USA, Newport News

Participate in the life of the Huntington Mennonite Church congregation, receive weekly mentoring, explore and share gifts of music, teaching, leadership roles, media presence, and more. Based on interests, HMC will connect an intern to work with one or more partner agencies in the area.

International business

Central Asia: International Transformational Business

Central Asia

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.

Nazareth Village

Israel: Discipleship Intern

Asia, Nazareth

Serve as a discipleship intern at Nazareth Village and/or Nazareth Hospital, and encounter the cultures and peoples of the land as well as travelers from around the world as you share the love and good news of Jesus.

Abide Project

United States: Discipleship and Creation Care

USA, Keezletown

Serve as an intern with the Abide Project of Church of the Lamb, which is establishing welcoming places for their neighbors: a parish, gardens, and an abbey that unites faith with work and vocation and provides a place for spiritual formation and healing.

Highland Retreat staff

United States: Highland Retreat Ministry Intern

USA, Bergton

Disciple young people in faith at camp while serving in a beautiful outdoor setting at Highland Retreat! This assignment works with the camp director and staff to oversee the operations of Highland Retreat as it engages in faith formation for children and youth.

US: Worship and Campus Ministry

United States: Worship and Campus Ministry

USA, Harrisonburg

Minister to college students through worship gatherings, Bible studies, one-on-one meetings, and in other ways at colleges in the Shenandoah Valley: Eastern Mennonite University, James Madison University, Bridgewater College, or Mary Baldwin University.

Joyel Allen

Joyel Joyel Allen

USA, Virginia, Harrisonburg

Joyel serves in college ministry, in partnership with Every Nation Campus. She is leading Bible studies and small groups at Mary Baldwin University, Staunton, Va., and focuses on identifying and mentoring leaders for campus ministry.

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Thailand: Pioneer Church Planting

Asia, Det Udom

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.

Jason and Jenny Wagner

Jason and Jenny Jason and Jenny Wagner Zachary, Joshua, Bethany, Timothy

USA, Virginia, Harrisonburg

Jason serves in a full-time position as chaplain at the Augusta Correctional Center, a medium security prison in Craigsville, Va. He and his wife Jenny serve with VMMissions as Associated Workers, enabling them to partner with others who are passionate about God’s life transformation.

Paulo and Ana Silva

Paulo and Ana Paulo and Ana Silva Juliana, Marcos

Central Asia

Paulo and Ana (names changed) serve in a Central Asian country and focus on mentoring new workers. They spent 17 years in the region prior to this assignment, serving as team leaders of multinational teams. They have extensive experience and expertise in organizational management and speak four languages.

Ben and Risa Yutzy

Ben and Risa Ben and Risa Yutzy Corin, Efram, Rezin, Aksa

USA, Virginia, Timberville

Ben and Risa are ‘making disciples who make disciples’ among the Spanish-speaking farm workers with whom they work as they bear witness to Christ and nurture expressions of simple church.

E3 refugee ministry

Refugee Ministry in Jordan

Asia, Various locations

Share God’s love through Christ in refugee camps and under-served communities. Work with a local church, short-term teams offer support to continuing ministry to refugees fleeing long-term instability in their home communities.

Workplace ministry

Workplace Ministry and Formation in Mission

Asia

In this one-year assignment, stay in your current job or start a new one while receiving training and biweekly connection with a tranSend cohort, learning about how to share good news in workplace contexts and approach any job with a kingdom perspective.

Wayfarers

Wayfarers

Europe

Join us on a pilgrimage through Germany in May and June 2024, visiting old cities and new projects, getting to know people and communities, and exploring what it means to follow Jesus in the post-Christian landscape of today’s church in Europe.

Germany childcare

Germany: Childcare Assistant and Café Ministry

Europe, Mannheim

Empower a long-term pioneer mission worker family through child care and home help as needed while participating in the life of the Emmaus Gemeinschaft missional community, and build relationships through service at a Christian café.

South Asia internship

South Asia: Living God’s Mission With Muslim-Background Believers

South Asia

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.

Mike and Risha Metzler family

Mike and Risha Mike and Risha Metzler Hannah, Joel, Tobias

USA, Virginia, Harrisonburg

Mike and Risha are co-pastors and church planters of Mosaic of Grace Church, Harrisonburg, Va., which envisions a community redeemed by Jesus Christ and transformed into a dwelling place of the Holy Spirit, together pursuing the glory of God for the good of the world. Mosaic’s mission is to share the joy of knowing and […]

Thailand Youth and Family Worker

Thailand: Youth and Family Worker

Asia, Northeast districts

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.

Southeast Asia B4T

Southeast Asia: Business for Transformation (B4T)

Southeast Asia, (City withheld)

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.

Alfonso Alvarado

Alfonso Alfonso Alvarado

USA, Virginia, Harrisonburg

Alfonso serves as a pastor and church planter of Iglesia Menonita Monte Moriah in Lacey Spring, Va., in partnership with Grace Mennonite Fellowship, Lacey Spring, Va.

Nazareth Village

Nazareth/Bethlehem Learning and Work Tour

Asia, Nazareth

A unique, hands-on opportunity to encounter the land of Jesus’ earthly ministry and relive the stories of Jesus as the team meets, works, and prays together with Palestinian Christians. Note: The 2024 trip has been cancelled and rescheduled for 2025.

Media and tech intern

South Asia: Media and Tech Intern

South Asia, urban context

Join a team with current VMMissions workers and use your media and technology skills as an intern prepared to learn and serve as you enhance the outreach ministry to Muslim-background persons and connect with new believers as you study language and culture.

Albania: Teacher’s Assistant for Preschool

Europe, Lezhë

Serve as a teacher’s assistant for the Joshua Center preschool, working with the Roma population of Lezhë, Albania. Work with Joshua Center director Norma Teles and other preschool teachers to educate and share the good news of Jesus with children.

South Asia: Living God’s Mission with Muslim-Background Believers

South Asia, urban context

Dive into an immersion experience in a Muslim context with home stays, language study and mission mentoring among Muslim-background believers in Jesus. Join a team with current VMMissions workers as an intern prepared to listen, learn and minister in this context.

Kosovo: Pioneer Church Planter

Europe, Istog

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.

Mannheim, Germany

Germany: Church Planter and Discipleship Pioneer

Europe, Mannheim

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.

Southeast Asia internship

Southeast Asia: Serving Among the Last and Least

Southeast Asia, urban context

Join a team living and working in a major Southeast Asian city’s slum where skills such as nursing, teaching, and/or social work are an asset. Serve alongside VMMissions workers, study language and culture, live with a host family, and experience the radical incarnational life of this ministry.

Yosiah and Anita Rahma

Yosiah and Anita Yosiah and Anita Rahma Josh, Simon

Southeast Asia

Yosiah and Anita Rahma (names changed) live and serve in a slum community, running a preschool and after school program for neighborhood kids called House of Hope in a large Southeast Asia city, serving with Servants to Asia’s Urban Poor, in partnership with VMMissions as Associated Workers.

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