Vernacular Video Mission International
Vernacular Video Mission International (VVMI) partners with local churches and other mission organizations who develop ministries that communicate the Gospel through multimedia in ethnic cultural communities (vernacular groups). Our goal is to bring people into a relationship with Jesus Christ, making an eternal difference in the lives of people of many cultures where God leads us throughout the world.
VVMI provides mission leadership and coordinates strategic projects, short-term mission trips, and training of ethnic Christians for the promotion of vernacular evangelism and discipleship.
PRAYER
We value prayerfully seeking Christ’s leading of this mission.
CONNECTING THE CHURCH
We value connecting local Christian congregations across cultures.
TECHNOLOGY
We value using simple and powerful technology.
THE GOSPEL
We value proclaiming the Gospel in the vernacular (i.e., common language).
WORKING WITH NATIONALS
We value empowering indigenous missionaries, churches, and organizations through partnering and networking.
COLLABORATION
We value promoting collaboration in the Body of Christ to spread the Good News of the Gospel.
WORD OF GOD
We value communicating and distributing the Word of God in the vernacular.
RELATIONSHIP
We value developing friendships and relationships with our ministry partners.
STORIES AND TESTIMONIES
We value the sharing of stories and testimonies of how God is furthering His Kingdom.
VVMI affirms the following 9 statements as its official Statement of Belief, taken from Short-Term Evangelical Missions International (STEM):
- The divine inspiration and consequent authority of the whole canonical Scriptures as the inerrant and only Word of God.
- The doctrine of the Trinity: God the Father, Jesus Christ the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
- The fall of man and his consequent moral depravity and need for repentance and regeneration.
- The atonement for sin through the substitutionary death of Jesus Christ.
- The doctrine of Justification by Faith.
- The regeneration and renewal of man through the work and presence of the Holy Spirit in his life.
- The resurrection of the body both in the case of the just and the unjust.
- The eternal life of the saved and the eternal punishment of the lost, as described in scripture.
- The human sexual experience rightly expressed through commitment in marriage between one man and one woman.
VVMI Partners: VVMI accepts and joyfully works together with all others who adhere to the basic tenets of faith as expressed in one or more of the following historically-and universally-recognized Christian Creeds/Confessions/Covenant:
- The Apostles’ Creed (circa A.D. 175)
- The Nicene Creed (A.D. 325)
- The Augsburg Confession (A.D. 1530)
- The Westminster Confession (August 1647)
- The Lausanne Covenant (July 1974)
- Other similar or contemporary statements of belief that do not contradict or disaffirm in part or in whole STEM’s Primary 9-Point Statement of Belief.
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