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Venezuela Lutheran Mission Partnership:
supports evangelism, church planting, and
leadership development in Venezuela. We are servants of and partners
with: the Lutheran Church of Venezuela (ILV) and the missionaries of
the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod serving in Venezuela. To
learn more go to About
VLMP or Contact Us.
Interested in sharing Jesus' love in another culture?
Want to make friends with Christians in another country? VLMP is now
accepting applications for two short-term Mission Vision Trips in 2007 --
July 13-23 and August 10-20. Participants will experience living on an
active mission field in a different culture and be able to form relationships
with local Christians as you work to strengthen their church. Please email
venmission@hotmail.com for an application or further information.
The specific
destination will be set based on the priority of the churches in
Venezuela. The team will do work projects based on the team
skills and needs of the local church as well as children’s ministry and
community outreach projects.
Pre-trip training includes
overviews on Venezuelan culture and core value system and well as
Missiology, preparing your own testimony and how to fund-raise for your
mission.
La
Finca Luterana "Tierra de Gracia" - An
agricultural
mission project. With the help of La Iglesia
Luterana de Venezuela, the national Lutheran Church of Venezuela, the
congregation of Cristo Rey in Maturin, capital of the eastern state of
Monagas, is supporting the development of a working farm in the
surrounding countryside. According to a business plan developed by
agricultural missionary Dale Saville, the farm will train agricultural
workers in better means of crop production and marketing, and generate
enough revenue in its own right to support one to two pastors who would
serve small rural churches that cannot afford to pay full-time church
workers on their own. Learn more about this project at http://finca.ilv-venezuela.net/inglis.html.
Get Involved. In five years VLMP has progressed a lot.
But for our mission society really to be the start of
something big, we need
many more volunteers --perhaps even you. Listed below are 13 task
forces needed to advance our efforts. For more detailed
descriptions of each of the task forces and to learn how to volunteer,
please click any one of the links below.
1.
Annual
Meeting: to
facilitate an annual membership event or "fiesta".
2.
Publicity:
to get the word out and
rally support.
3.
Prayer:
to coordinate and
promote prayer support.
4.
Making Amigos:
to develop ongoing
Venezuelan friendships.
5.
Theological
Education: to
train pastors and church leaders.
6.
Short-term
Mission Trips: to provide mission experiences.
7.
Financial
Projects: to
meet needs for funds
and materials.
8.
Development:
to establish a solid
financial base.
9.
Self-sufficient:
to develop
micro-businesses in Venezuela.
10. Children:
to promote missions
among children in the US.
11. Global Mission:
to promote missions
among Venezuelans.
12. Missionary Care:
to serve the needs of
missionaries.
13. Missionary
Recruitment: to
call and prepare missionaries.
VLMP is a
member of ALMA, the Association of Lutheran Mission Agencies.
VLMP is legally incorporated in MN as a nonprofit corporation under MN
Statute Chapter 317A.
©2002-2007
Venezuela Lutheran Mission Partnership. All rights reserved.
Last
updated January 16, 2007.
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