"Carrying the Word to the World"
Purpose and Objectives
The PURPOSE
- To encourage and support indigenous missions (native Christian leadership's outreach to their own people) through personal involvement, financial sponsorship, and ministry development.
- Missionary Ventures exists to serve and support the indigenous church.
The OBJECTIVES can be divided between those in the USA and those abroad:
USA
- To bring about an awareness that leads to action among Americans as to the plight of the lost and hurting world.
- To create, develop, coordinate and administrate personal involvement in missions (mission teams, funding, prayer, encouragement, etc.)
- To provide an accountable means of managing and administrating designated support to the mission field.
Abroad
- To facilitate the development of responsible indigenous Christian leadership through the establishment and expansion of Bible schools, leadership training conferences, and correspondence courses.
- To assist these Christian leaders in the planting of churches in unreached areas.
- To enable these Christian leaders and churches to start ministries and outreach to their own people; i.e. feeding centers, orphanages, schools, clinics, etc.
Theological Statement of Faith and Action
- We stand on the Bible as the divinely inspired and authoritative Word of God.
- We believe there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
- We proclaim that a Christian is a person who has come into the Salvation and Lordship of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the Son of God, born of virgin birth, lived a sinless life, performed miracles, died a vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, bodily rose from the dead, ascended to the right hand of the Father, and will personally return in power and glory.
- We rely on the convicting, guiding, empowering, equipping, indwelling presence and work of the Holy Spirit to bring us into a holy life and a ministry within the church and witness to the world.
- We teach that Christians will be resurrected along with the lost, yet saved unto the resurrection of life while they that are lost will be resurrected unto eternal judgement.
- We see the church as the assembly, the community and the fellowship of all Christians united in Christ.