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Resounding Service
Part of our ten-week Rooted Discipleship opportunity involves participating in a serve experience. One of the groups in our current...
Mar 18, 20191 min read
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Eternal Home of Hope
On October 25-28, Ventura Missionary Church, in partnership with YWAM's Homes of Hope ministry, sent a team down to Mexico to build a...
Nov 2, 20183 min read
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Dave & Carolyn - Building Bridges to Jesus
Dave and Carolyn Banks have been following and serving Jesus for a long time. They have taught in our Ambassadors Adult Sunday School...
Oct 17, 20185 min read
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Blessing Schools With Good News!
Several years ago, Greg Campbell began to sense a stirring to disciple people. As a result, he responded to an opportunity to serve at...
Sep 13, 20182 min read
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VMC Team Makes Progress on Family Ministry Project in Latvia
On their recent visit, VMC Missionaries Juris and Kristine Bekeri-Brivkalni, shared about their calling and vision to facilitate a...
Aug 2, 20181 min read
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Unsung Heroes - Serving with Humility
We have so many wonderful servants in our church family. Our Deaconesses exemplify those among us who humbly give of themselves, often...
Jul 26, 20181 min read
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Goal Achieved!
In 2006, the missions department of Ventura Missionary had a goal: to share the good news of Christ with an unengaged/unreached people...
Jul 19, 20182 min read
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Sharing the Father's Love with the Fatherless
When VMC Missionaries, Gordon and Grace Griffith, moved to their current residence in the Philippines, they had a heart for the large...
Jun 13, 20183 min read
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Grace Tyner - Using Her Voice for God
God's Word tells us in Ephesians 2:10 that we are "God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works which God prepared in...
May 24, 20182 min read
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The BeBe's Serving in Latvia
Juris and Kristine Bekeri-Brivkalni, or the BeBe's as we have come to call them, are VMC missionaries serving with YWAM in Latvia....
May 17, 20183 min read
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VMC Missionaries | Rene & Cristina Matus
Ventura Missionary Church began a partnership with Pastor Chuy Mondragon in 1998 when our youth group served at a variety of ministries...
Mar 16, 20182 min read
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A Lifetime of Knowing His Messiah
On February 26, 2018, long-time VMC member, Ray Fink, turned 90 years old. Ray grew up in a Christian home in Washington D.C. He says,...
Mar 8, 20183 min read
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A Crucial Resource for Missionaries
Bob Klamser is a VMC missionary who serves with Crisis Consulting International (CCI). Below he describes this increasingly crucial...
Feb 16, 20182 min read
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We Are Servants
Robin Arnold says that one of her favorite verses is Matthew 20:28: "Just as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve." Robin...
Feb 1, 20182 min read
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Homes of HOPE!
Ventura Missionary sends approximately two teams per year down to Mexico to build a home for a family in need. We partner with Youth With...
Nov 22, 20174 min read
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Fruitful Year of Ministry to College Students
VMC missionaries, Alex and Lauren Piasecki, serve with InterVarsity. This year, more small groups were meeting and more decisions were...
Nov 17, 20171 min read
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Well-Crafted Lives Serving Kids & Students
We are blessed with so many people who are giving their time and using their gifts to bless the young people who come through our doors...
Nov 9, 20172 min read
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Sounds That Shine in the Darkness
The sounds over the wall were often angry, even abusive. Gordon and Grace Griffith are situated in a small compound next door to a...
Oct 12, 20173 min read
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Wired to Serve
Matthew 5:16 says, "In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in...
Sep 29, 20177 min read
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Wired to Shine!
All of us have been wired by a Master Designer to shine. Jesus tells us in Matthew 5:14 that we are "the light of the world." The more we...
Sep 15, 20173 min read
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