Field Story · Uganda From the Guardhouse to the Jailhouse Some stories begin at an ending — a job lost, a man dismissed, a family left without. Brian’s story begins there. What happened next is the kind of thing that reminds you why this mission exists. A man abandoned Brian had been working faithfully as…
Praise God for an amazing mission trip to Indonesia where a team shared the gospel with 2,000 public high school students and encouraged more than 1,000 believers in local churches. The international team of 10 came from Malaysia, Australia, America, and Indonesia to spend 10 days visiting schools and churches across Nias Island.
From Brokenness to Breakthrough: The Gospel in Northern Uganda https://youtu.be/v2ddo9b2QsA When Rex and Melinda Guynn first set foot in Uganda nearly twenty years ago, they had no idea how deeply God would root them in one of the most remote corners of Africa in a region still healing from decades of war. What began as…
Team Delivers Transportation, Relief, and Hope Across the Philippines CMA trip to the Philippines supports MV missionaries, pastors, locals, and more Across nine unforgettable days, 14 CMA members traveled across the Philippines, navigating crowded cities, coastal towns, steep mountain roads, and remote island communities to bring the love of Jesus where it was needed most.…
Forgiveness & faith in the Peruvian jungle written by MV Missionaries Josh & Jennifer Hire I was waiting for one man. Hoping against hope that he would come. Would he come? It was such a long trip, seven hours walking to the nearest river, then a boat ride, a motor taxi, and finally another two…
Immediate Needs in the Philippines In less than two weeks, at least islands in the Philippines have suffered in the wake and aftershocks of recent earthquakes. That comes after typhoons, flooding, and landslides on a third island. With MV partners, staff and missionaries on the ground across the region, updates coming in continue to…
Changing Lives Through Faith and Skill Missionary Ventures’ Trade School in the Dominican Republic In the heart of Redemption Village in Sosúa, Dominican Republic, a quiet revolution is taking place—a revolution not of politics or power, but of hope, faith, and opportunity. Led locally by MV missionary Rick Sucher, Missionary Ventures is transforming lives through its…
Bringing God’s Kingdom to Uruguay How a MV missionary is sharing the Gospel along Uruguay’s Secular Shores Written by Casey McCarty, MV Communications Coordinator, on her first international mission trip. On my first mission trip amid the crashing surf and warm hospitality of Uruguay, God opened my eyes to not only the country’s beauty but…
From Touchdowns to Transformation Marietta Football Team’s Life-Changing Trip to Ecuador While high school football teams spend a chunk of their summer days on workouts and learning plays for the fall, a group of leaders from Marietta High School traveled to Quito, Ecuador in early July to impact the lives of students, other athletes, and…
For more than 20 years, Missionary Ventures has had a ministry presence in Honduras, with long-term missionaries and teams building partnerships and equipping local believers to help transform their communities.
Praise God for an amazing mission trip to Indonesia where a team shared the gospel with 2,000 public high school students and encouraged more than 1,000 believers in local churches. The international team of 10 came from Malaysia, Australia, America, and Indonesia to spend 10 days visiting schools and churches across Nias Island.
Missionary Ventures International is pleased to announce Brad Staton as our next president beginning January 1, 2025. Bill Snell has led MVI for the last eight years, and as he moves toward retirement, Bill will remain connected with MVI serving as President Emeritus during 2025 and connecting with missionaries and partners around the world. Brad…
Ebenezer has never been a wealthy man.
He grew up in northern Ghana in a town called WaleWale, where the average income is less than $10/day and about 25% of the population lives below the poverty line. But as a young man, Ebenezer soon learned that wealth wasn’t measured by material possessions.
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Prayut started battling cancer shortly before Christmas in 2022. His condition deteriorated leading to intensive care and he fell into a coma. Prayut’s doctor was a Christian and he advised Prayut’s wife to pray for Jesus to heal her husband.
It came in a small brown package but carried along a big gift.
The package was filled with letters, pictures, notes, and prayers, all meant to encourage MVI missionaries Tim and Julia Dang.
When Juan Pablo Noreiga was just a young boy growing up in Guatemala, he already had big dreams. “I want to be a doctor,” he told a team of visiting missionary doctors. And it wasn’t just a pipe dream. Juan Pablo was very bright and had been able to read since the age of 3.
“It hurts me to say goodbye so much to so many and so often. Even if it’s just ‘see you later,’ still, I wish I could be in more than one place at the same time.” – Ed Lockett
The program didn’t start with much of a vision. It was just a desire to bless a young high school student named Catarina Chel de Pozo, called Zoila, who wanted to become a nurse.
The meeting with the doctor did not go as expected – he did not want to remove the growth on Elvis’ neck.
The girls took two very different paths. Years ago, during a visit to a rural village in Belize, MVI missionary Elizabeth Ayala noticed two 15-year-old girls, Carmen and María, (not their real names), sitting under a tree. She approached them to chat and learn more about them, intrigued that they were not in school.
When Victor Neagu was around 7 years old growing up in the eastern European country of Moldova, he was gifted a Bible, a special full-color children’s Bible that he cherished. “I loved that Bible, and I read the same stories all the time,” he remembers.
The church has mud walls and grass roof, but it is a place of worship for more than 20 people who have gathered to sing praise to Jesus and listen to Pastor Pablo Mutica share the Word of God.
Even in wanting to bless others, we are often blessed. In San Cristobal, Guatemala, MVI missionary Teresa Harwood has reached out to the local community in a variety of ways. One unique opportunity has come lately in working with her local church’s worship band.
Do team trips actually help? Why not just sent money? How do I choose where to go?
As a 10-year-old Muslim in Benin, Africa, Moustafa started having dreams of a man who walked on water and said to him to “Go quickly meet your Alpha.” These dreams haunted him into his teens and he wondered, who is this Alpha?
Click the image above to read our 2022 Annual Report, filled with stories of God at work throughout the year.
Sometimes we can read the Bible and think those times must have been so different. Does God really heal people the same way? Does the church really grow in exponential ways? We have received encouraging reports from Thailand that the Lord is moving in a similar way to the early church.
In the tiny Kingdom of Tonga, where Missionary Ventures has helped empower Tonga Christian Radio, our New Zealand office (MotiVate) invited their young adult leadership for a retreat in Auckland. Twenty-four young people attended – for 17 of them, it was their first time to leave their island nation.
The live in the wake of Pablo Escobar, the notorious drug lord who destroyed many lives in Colombia. It’s a community of displaced castoffs – people who are without homes, disabled, unwanted, and mostly made of single mothers with multiple kids.