Village Missions

Summary

Village Missions ("VM") provides full-time, qualified, spiritual leadership primarily to rural areas in the United States and Canada where there exists a definite need to win and disciple people to Jesus Christ through the proclamation and demonstration of the Gospel and to continue such leadership as long as requested. Village Missions conducts a missionary ministry in a local church context by placing leadership in rural communities of North America. Each missionary is appointed for an unspecified period of time, ministering in a given location as the Lord directs. Wives are an important part of the missionary team, but must balance their ministry with family responsibilities. The objective is to reach the entire community; therefore, denominational issues are avoided. Missionaries are encouraged to extend their ministries beyond the community of their residence through visitation, home Bible studies, and wherever other opportunities exist. Rev. Walter Duff founded VM in 1948. This organization is a nonprofit organization. Contributions to it are fully deductible to the extent allowed by law. It is a member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA).

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Village Missions ("VM") provides full-time, qualified, spiritual leadership primarily to rural areas in the United States and Canada, where there exists a definite need to win and disciple people to Jesus Christ through the proclamation and demonstration of the Gospel, and to continue such leadership as long as requested.

Village Missions conducts a missionary ministry in a local church context by placing leadership in rural communities of North America. Each missionary is appointed for an unspecified period of time, ministering in a given location as the Lord directs. Wives are an important part of the missionary team, but must balance their ministry with family responsibilities. The objective is to reach the entire community; therefore, denominational issues are avoided. Missionaries are encouraged to extend their ministries beyond the community of their residence through visitation, home Bible studies, and wherever other opportunities exist. Rev. Walter Duff founded VM in 1948.

This organization is a nonprofit organization. Contributions to it are fully deductible to the extent allowed by law. It is a member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA).

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Village Missions uses the following to express its mission:

It is the aim of the dedicated leaders of Village Missions to provide a Christ-centered community church program capable of involving the entire population.

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Statement of Faith [ Back to top ]

Village Missions uses the following to express its Statement of Faith:

• The supernatural and plenary inspiration of the Scriptures - that they are inerrant and that their teaching and authority are absolute, supreme, final and complete;
• The trinity of the Godhead - God, the Father; God, the Son; and God, the Holy Spirit;
• The personality of God - the personality and deity of Jesus Christ, begotten of the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, very God and very Man; the personality of the Holy Spirit;
• The resurrection of Jesus Christ - that His body was raised from the dead according to the Scriptures, and that He ascended into Heaven and sitteth on the right hand of God as the believer's Advocate;
• The sinfulness of man - that all human beings are born with a sinful nature, are totally depraved and need a Savior from sin;
• The Atonement - that Jesus Christ became the sinner's sacrifice before God and died as the propitiation for the sins of the whole world;
• The necessity of the new birth - salvation is by grace through faith and not of works; saving faith will maintain good works in the life of the believer;
• The literal resurrection of the body, both of the just and of the unjust;
• The everlasting blessedness of the saved, and the everlasting punishment of the lost;
• The evangelization of the world - the supreme mission of the church in this age is to preach the gospel to every creature;
• The second coming of Christ according to Scripture.

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VM was founded in 1948 as an outgrowth of the work being done by Mrs. Helen Duff Baugh and Miss Mary Clark in their formation of Christian Women's Clubs. As they traveled around they saw the tremendous number of churches that were closed or without a pastor. God led them, along with Mrs. Baugh's brother, to organize VM. The Mission was launched on September 9th, 1948 at Cannon Beach, Oregon with the Rev. Walter Duff, Jr. as National Director.

From that time until his death in 1993 Rev. Duff was the guiding hand that shaped and directed the mission. VM is what it is today because he was the type of man that he was. It was his strong faith and deep concern for the unsaved people in rural communities that defined the call for the entire mission. Through his efforts many churches have received pastors and thousands have come to know the savior through the work of village missionaries.

In 1968 VM began providing missionaries in Canada as well as the United States. There are now more than 30 Canadian communities have received full-time missionary pastors through VM.

In 1993, with the passing of Rev. Duff, the mission entered a new phase. It was now too large for one man to personally oversee all the missionaries. The leadership passed to Dr. Jack Canady, who is assisted by Regional Administrators for the Western U.S., the Eastern U.S. and Canada. Under them there are District Representatives who are constantly involved in supporting and advising the missionaries in their districts.

The Gospel of Jesus Christ does not change, but the world around us changes constantly. As the culture evolves the mission has stood fast on the Gospel while attempting to grow and adapt so as to most effectively reach the unsaved people throughout rural North America. The testimony of how well that job is being done is found in the over 250 fields in the U.S. and over 30 in Canada that Village Missions is serving.

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Ranking Category	Rating	Overall Rank	Evangelism Sector
Overall Efficiency Rating		58 of 348	6 of 28
Fund Acquisition Decision		58 of 348	6 of 28
Resource Allocation Decision		of 348	18 of 28
Asset Utilization Decision		of 348	18 of 28

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