Missionary Ventures
The purpose of
Missionary Ventures International (MVI) is to encourage and support indigenous Christian Ministries through the personal involvement of people around the world, with short-term mission trips, financial sponsorship, and ministry development.
Missionary Ventures International began in 1983 and currently has seven offices in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Latin America, Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand.
MVI sends mission teams from its various offices and pioneers new missionary outreaches in over 60 different countries. Through these short-term mission trips, people have personally become involved in missions by sponsoring crusades, planting new churches, building new schools, developing clinics and hospitals, organizing feeding centers, orphanages, and Re-Nutrition centers for dying children.
International history
MVI began with the sending of a mission team to Guatemala, Central America in 1982. David Beam was an independent missionary working in Guatemala City. His ministry was to bring the love and message of Christ to the squatter camps that had sprung up after the earthquake in 1976.
Steven Beam (pictured), David's brother, was a pastor at that time in Tampa, Florida, USA. Steve and Tal Owen organized a mission team to go to Guatemala to help David and these desperate people. Soon other mission teams followed.
As the team members built relationships with the Guatemalans, they became excited about continuing their missionary efforts. They discovered how fulfilling missions was when they could personally know the people they were helping. They were able to see the direct results of their efforts.
Steve Beam founded Missionary Ventures in 1983. He has since moved on to fresh opportunities and MVI's current president is
Glen Dubois (since December 2008, pictured below). You can listen to Glen Dubois in a
radio interview, explaining what Missionary Ventures is doing around the world.
This personal involvement in missions gave people a greater desire for continued participation. MVI, a non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization, was established to facilitate continued involvement in missions, administer financial aid and enable tax credit for gifts to the poor.
The vision of MVI is to help indigenous Christian leadership. Consequently, the board of directors decided that MVI would be a servant organization. It was agreed that by working with indigenous Christian leadership we would accomplish long-term missionary endeavors.