Organizations Filed Purposes:
Village Missions transforms communities by full-time missionary pastors preaching the Word and loving the people. Village Missionaries serve struggling rural churches, developing a healthy Christ centered church that impacts the entire community. This is accomplished through worship services, visitation, community involvement, Bible studies, after school clubs, VBS, and other activities.
Village Missions is committed to helping country churches not only survive, but thrive. Since 1948, we have been helping country churches thrive all across North America. We place pastors in rural churches and help those churches get back on their feet. We care about the country church and are working to keep the church a vibrant and vital presence in more than 230 rural communities throughout North America. We're here when crisis hits, when the community is searching for somewhere to turn for answers.
Christianity Programs: Rural Ministry. Provide spiritually qualified missionaries to rural churches. Village Missions recruits, screens, trains and hires prospective candidates for ministry. Candidates are assigned to churches upon acceptance. District Representatives come alongside to provide guidance to the church, and mentoring and supervision to the Village Missionary. Village Missions also provides salary support, as well as a group health plan and related benefits. Approximately 80 of 200 churches served in the US and Canada received full or partial salary support in the year.
Christianity Programs: Conferences. The acronym R.E.S.T perfectly describes what we hope to achieve for each missionary. Renewal, Encouragement, Strengthening and Training. Village Missions gathers our missionaries together in 6 locations throughout the US and Canada each summer for mutual edification, encouragement and equipping. Summer 2020 conferences were suspended due to Covid, however virtual sessions and smaller regions gathering were undertaken as permitted in order to continue ministry to missioanries.
Christianity Programs: Candidate School. Village Missions conducts orientation classes to screen and train prospective Village Missionaries. This is the final step in a rigorous screening process where the the call of candidates to the ministry is validated and their final acceptance is determined. We hold Candidate School in the Spring and Fall of each year. This week-long event gives potential missionary-pastors a good look at Village Missions: our history, policies, mission, and vision. At the same time, we get to know the candidates. The candidates are trained for rural ministry and spend time in prayer together. They get to know the International Service Center staff. At the end of the week, the candidates hold a service where they share their testimonies and Executive Director John Adams gives a short message. The public is invited to this service. As part of our continuing efforts to find new Village Missionaries to bring to Candidate School and send to fields who are waiting for leadership, we take special time to pray each month. To join in with us, visit our RIPE page https://villagemissions.org/ripe/.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| James Cross | CFO | 45 | $83,001 |
| John Adams | Assistant Director | 45 | $80,255 |
| Brian Wechsler | Exec Director | 45 | $74,530 |
| Keith Walker | Board Member/Emp | 1 | $18,934 |
| Gilbert Doebler | Board Member/Retired employee | 1 | $7,650 |
| Peter Corak | Board Chair | 1 | $0 |
| Bill Nicholson | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Ken Moore | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Glenn Faxon | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Glenn Daman | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Sheldon Blattner | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Roy Bell | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
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