The membership of the Village Chapel responds to the love of Jesus Christ by fulfilling His mandate to His Church as recorded in Matthew 28:19 to "…go and make disciples of all nations."
This is Christ’s Great-Commission-–-the first and primary function of His Church beginning with Pentecost in Jerusalem. We confirm this mandate in the Village Chapel’s Mission Statement, appearing on the Home page.
Currently, the Village Chapel’s Mission outreach is dedicated in support of the following ministries which present the Gospel, serving locally and state-wide, nationally, and internationally:
I. Local and State-wide Great Commission Works:
(1) Boys and Girls Homes of NC – Lake Waccamaw, NC:
The mission of the Boys and Girls Homes of NC is to provide residential and foster care/adoption programs for neglected, abused, and hurting children that emphasize academic and Christian education to address their physical, emotional, social, and spiritual needs. Funds from our missions budget specifically support Chaplain John Cobb’s Evangelism Fund. This enables Chaplain Cobb to hold an Evangelistic Outreach Week over the summer with outside speakers and many Christian activities for the children. It also provides a Study Bible and additional Christian material for each resident at the home. www.boysandgirlshomesofnc.com
(2) Prison Ministry - Scotland Prison, Laurinburg, NC:
Men from The Village Chapel, including our pastors, regularly work with the inmates of Scotland Prison by providing Bible studies, worship and baptism services, as well as a listening ear. This is a maximum security prison where many of the inmates are on death row or serving life sentences. Due to the closing of other NC prisons, this facility has recently been expanded to house approximately 3,000 inmates. The men are hungry for God’s Word and the opportunities for evangelism and Christian growth are many. Laud Pitt is the contact person for this ministry.
(3) Life Care Pregnancy Center – Carthage, NC:
Life Care Pregnancy Center, which is part of the nation-wide CareNet umbrella organization, is a Christ-centered ministry that promotes the sanctity of human life by providing Christian direction, compassionate care, accurate information and practical assistance for individuals and families facing crucial decisions surrounding an unplanned pregnancy or pregnancy-related crisis. Suzanne Clendenin serves as Executive Director of this ministry. www.lifecarpregnancycenter.org
(4) The Village Chapel Youth Ministry Missions Trip (to Atlanta, GA):
Pastor Mark Storz is scheduled to take middle and high school students to Atlanta, GA from July 25 through July 30, 2010. The group is to minister in an apartment complex and plans to present our Vacation Bible School materials to young children and also work in a homeless shelter.
(5) Teen Challenge of the Sandhills – Carthage, NC:
This local facility is part of the larger Teen Challenge ministry headquartered in Rehrersburg, PA. The Carthage facility houses 40 men, eighteen years of age or older, who are fighting addiction to alcohol and drugs. This Christian Ministry introduces these young men to Jesus Christ and literally transforms their broken lives and prepares them to return to their families, the work force and society. These men give drug and alcohol presentations and a strong Christian witness to many high school and middle school audiences in our state. Sal and Deb DiBianca are the contact persons. www.sandhillstc.org
(5) WYLD Life (Middle School) and YoungLife (High School) of the Sandhills:
WYLD Life and YoungLife minister to hundreds of middle and high school students in our area through weekly Bible Clubs, smaller home Bible studies, weekend retreats, summer camps and personal counseling. This organization reaches out to many young people whose families are unchurched. Greg Noble is the Director and contact person. www.sandhills.younglife.org
II. National Great Commission Works:
(1) Bible Broadcasting Network – Headquartered Charlotte, NC:
 Bible Broadcasting Network currently owns 237 radio stations in both North and South America. These stations broadcast approximately 50% solid Bible teaching based on the inerrancy of Scripture and 50% conservative Christian music. BBN’s programming can also be heard in 8 different languages through the Internet. BBN provides an online “Chat” ministry in 8 languages with well-trained pastors and Christian educators, providing many seekers with answers to their questions about Christianity and the Bible. BBN’s “Bible Institute” offers many free online Bible and other Christian courses in several languages. www.bbnradio.org
(2) Focus on the Family – Headquartered Colorado Springs, CO:
Focus on the Family (FOTF), founded by Dr. James Dobson, works to nurture and defend the God-ordained institution of the family and promote Biblical truths world-wide. Core activities of this organization include broadcasting a daily radio program by Dr. Dobson and FOTF’s staff, provision of free resources and family counseling according to Biblical views, and publication of a variety of magazines, videos and audio recordings. In addition, children’s programming such as Adventures in Odyssey, can be heard on many Christian radio stations. FOTF also produced The Truth Project, which has been viewed by close to 300 of our church family. www.focusonthefamily.com
(3) Samaritan’s Purse International – Headquartered Boone, NC:
Founded by Dr. Franklin Graham, provides Christian relief programs nationally and throughout the world to people in need as a result of poverty, famine and natural disasters (for example, Katrina hurricane and Haiti and Chili earthquake victims). Their work, including in countries hostile to Christianity, always includes a presentation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The Village Chapel participates in Operation Christmas Child. Through this outreach program, millions of “shoeboxes” filled by individuals with toys and treats for children, are delivered, along with Christian materials appropriate for language and age, to even the very remotest areas of the world. www.samaritanspurse.org
III. International Great Commission Works:
(1) Chosen People Ministries – Headquartered New York, New York:
This ministry of Messianic Jewish believers reaches out to evangelize Jewish people in many parts of the world. In supporting this ministry our church follows the Biblical mandate “to the Jew first …” The Village Chapel supports two missionaries working through Chosen People Ministries. Neriyah Arabov and his family live in Tel Aviv, Israel and are involved with pastoring a local Russian Messianic congregation, running a soup kitchen and homeless shelter with a drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility, and administrating a new Messianic Christian School. Avi Yampolsky and family work in Israel, Russia and other parts of Europe in various aspects of outreach to their fellow Jewish people. www.chosenpeople.com
(2) Christian Aid Mission – Headquartered in Charlottesville, VA:
Christian Aid Mission seeks to establish a witness for our Lord in every tribe and nation by supporting highly effective indigenous (native) evangelical missionary ministries in closed lands and poorer countries overseas. This mission follows a different approach to foreign missions. Rather than continue the expensive tradition of sending American missionaries to foreign countries, they send financial help to indigenous evangelistic missions already present in those countries. They accomplish 90 percent of the pioneer mission work among unreached people groups at a fraction of the cost of sending out American missionaries. Additionally, Christian Aid provides disaster relief to help indigenous ministries rebuild after earthquakes and floods. They also provide aid and relief to persecuted Christians ministering in countries hostile to Christianity. The Village Chapel directs a portion of our funds to this ministry to support the Barner Learning Center, a Christian School and orphanage in Davao City, Philippines. www.christianaid.org
(3) Christian Veterinary Mission – Headquartered Seattle, WA:
 Our church supports Dr. Gerald and Frances Mitchum, who have served in Mongolia since 1995. Dr. Mitchum formerly had a veterinarian practice in Southern Pines. Through an organization which they founded, known as V.E.T. Net, the Mitchums provide much needed current veterinarian education by bringing to the country both long term and short term veterinary missionaries of many different specialties. They have also made it possible for the Mongolian veterinarians to purchase high quality drugs for their animals. Their veterinarian work has allowed them to also expand into building schools and providing Christian teachers for children in even the remotest parts of Mongolia. All of their work is done with a very strong Christian witness, including Bible training for Mongolians in all “aimags” (provinces) of the country. In addition to supporting the Mitchums, The Village Chapel fully supports the Delgerkhangai County in their “Claim A County” Outreach Program, which provides ongoing education and Bible training to various aimags in Mongolia. This ministry has been an extremely effective ministry since the fall of the country’s former communistic government in the early 1990s.
(4) Crossover Communications International – Headquartered
Columbia, SC:
Crossover Communications International, headed by Dr. Bill Jones who is also President of Columbia International University in Columbia, SC, was founded by Dr. Jones in 1988. Crossover’s mission is to multiply church planters to plant “multiplying churches” among the people groups of Eurasia, primarily focusing on the countries surrounding the Black Sea. This ministry works with indigenous Christians to reach some of the most unreached people groups in Eurasia. They recently completed their initiative “Mission Black Sea” to plant 100 churches in these Black Sea countries. These areas are predominantly Muslim and many of the countries they work with are hostile to a Christian presence. www.crossoverusa.org
(5) SAT-7 (Christian Arab TV) – Headquartered Cyprus:
SAT-7 TV is a Christian Satellite Television network run for and by the people of the Middle East and North Africa and broadcasts 24 hours per day, 7 days a week. This ministry has 4 channels SAT-7 ARABIC, SAT-7 PARS (Farsi), SAT-7 Kids (Arabic), and its newest channel TURK-7 (Turkish). These four channels are watched in more than 70 nations (including 44 in Europe and more than 20 across North Africa, the Gulf, and the greater Middle East) and reach a potential audience of more than 500 million people, with a known audience of 10 million viewers. The programming on these channels presents a strong Christian witness. Many of the countries in this viewing area are hostile to Christianity, and local TV programming is largely controlled by the government. Receiving SAT-7 programming on satellite dishes, which at present are not government controlled, is predominantly the only way to present the Gospel of Jesus Christ to millions of Muslim people. www.sat7.com
(6) SEND International – Headquartered Farmington, MI:
Through aggressive evangelism, intentional discipleship and strategic leadership development, SEND International starts churches where there are none. In those places where a national church already exists, they partner together to reach into regions and people groups that are not yet touched. The Village Chapel supports John and April McDuffee, who with their three children, minister with the Vicalvaro church in Madrid, Spain. Their stated purpose is “to glorify God by the proclamation of the gospel, establishing churches, and discipleship of God’s people. In a post-modern, secular country, the only means of accomplishing our task is through ongoing prayer, dependence upon the work of the Holy Spirit, and through communication of the Word of God. In everyway possible, we are committed to working with the national church, and our intent is to establish churches directly affiliated with existing Spanish church groups.” www.send.org
(7) Trans World Radio – Headquartered Cary, NC:
Trans World Radio’s (TWR) mission is to assist the church to fulfill the commands of Jesus Christ to make disciples by using and making available mass media with broadcasts around the world to proclaim the Gospel of salvation to as many people as possible, and to instruct believers in biblical doctrine and daily Christ-like living. TWR is additionally involved in providing wind-up radios to very remote people groups who do not have electricity. Presently, TWR produces Christian webcasts in 40 languages, has satellite distribution in Africa, Europe and Asia, and maintains over 2000 local AM and FM stations worldwide in more than 72 countries. www.twr.org
(8) Voice of the Martyrs – Headquartered Bartlesville, OK:
The mission of Voice of the Martyrs (VOM) is to encourage and empower Christians to fulfill the Great Commission in areas of the world where they are persecuted for their involvement in propagating the Gospel of Jesus Christ. They accomplish this by providing Bibles, literature, radio broadcasts, medical assistance, and other forms of aid. VOM gives relief aid to families of Christian martyrs in these areas of the world. VOM equips local Christians to love and win to Christ their enemies who are opposed to the gospel in countries where believers are actively persecuted for their Christian witness. Additionally, they undertake projects of encouragement, helping believers to rebuild their lives and Christian witness, in countries that have formerly suffered under communist oppression. VOM emphasizes the fellowship of believers by informing the world of atrocities committed against Christians and by remembering their courage and faith. www.persecution.com (also, Children’s website: www.kidsofcourage.com)
(9) Wycliffe Bible Translators – Headquartered Orlando, FL:
 Wycliffe Bibles Translators translate the Bible into languages that do not have a written language – only an oral tradition. “It is important for the people to have the Word of God in their own language because this is their personality, their identity, their cultural background, what makes them people,” says one Wycliffe worker. God created every language and culture on earth, and it is His desire to redeem each one of them as His own. Many people groups have had the message of the gospel for generations but still do not have a translation of the Bible in their own language. When they experience the Gospel in their own language, it is as if they are hearing it for the first time. Presently, there are 350 million people who do not have a Bible in their native language. Wycliffe Bible Translators has as its goal to have a Bible translation effort started in every language still needing one by year 2025. The Village Chapel specifically supports Jim and Petey Winters and their family of four children, who work with Bible translations in the western African country of Senegal. Additionally, our church supports the Bassari Language Translation Project in this country of Senegal. www.wycliffe.org
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