About
the Vision International
Extension Institute Resource Centers
Local Church
Schools of Ministry in more than 150 nations
Indigenous Mission
Vision is thoroughly committed to indigenous
missionary endeavors. Vision places a high level of
respect on the local culture and customs of our
partners around the world, allowing them to
translate, contextualize, and adapt the curriculum
to suit their own needs in their immediate ministry
environment. Vision is not imperialistic in its
education outreach; rather, it seeks to provide
curriculum where there is a lack of curriculum and
education where there is a lack of education,
allowing the people to benefit from our partnership
in every possible way. Vision does not maintain nor
enforce international copyrights on its curriculum,
textbooks, or material. In most cases, Vision
permits the local, indigenous peoples to translate,
reproduce, and sell the books and materials to help
fund their Resource Center.
Vision does not seek to convert or indoctrinate;
rather, Vision cooperates with many international
partners. Vision's educational outreach does not
seek to dogmatically evangelize the Christianity of
other cultures to a westernized mindset or the
doctrinal standard of a specific denomination.
Rather, Vision provides the academic and vocational
training tools to open new doors for educational
exploration and leadership development in the
immediate cultural context, language, and Christian
tradition.
For more information, please see our
Bible College in a Box®
initiative. The Integration of Church Planting and Leadership
Training
The two major themes turning heads in the missions
community are leadership training and church
planting. A problem exists, however, in a lack of
integration of these two major streams of mission.
Church planting ministries are desperate for trained
workers and Leadership Training Ministries are
looking for places for their graduates to minister.
Through a Strategic Partnerships between Vision
International Education Network and Principle of 12
Project over 6,000 churches were established
worldwide during 2005.
Church Planters need
to be trained for:
Assurance of a sound theological foundation for
ministry
An understanding of integrity and ethics needed
for ministry
Understanding of the Call of God on their life
for ministry
Quality of Leadership needed to plant sustaining
churches in the nations
Avoidance of frustration and burnout in ministry
from lack of adequate training
Impartation of the Vision of a worldwide ministry
Vision International Educational Network's focus on
local church based education positions itself to
help bring integration between leadership training
and church planting. The vision for church planting
comes from hundreds of strong local churches Vision
partners with, and who have a compatible vision to
plant churches. Through Vision, church planters can
be trained in the local setting. By working together
we can see leaders trained and churches planted
around the world.
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