God is at work in many different ways around the world. We hope you are encouraged to read stories of lives that have been changed as a result of His goodness.
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
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.
Click the image above to read our 2023 Annual Report, filled with stories of God at work throughout the year.
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?
Missionary Ventures International - [email protected] | 1017 Maitland Center Commons Blvd Maitland, FL 32751-7205 | P 407.859.7322 | ©2022 Missionary Ventures International