Missions
VBBC’S MISSION ENGAGEMENT
“You
are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither
do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on
its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In
the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your
good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.”
Matthew 5:14-16
“But
you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will
be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the
ends of the earth.”
Acts 1:8
HOME MISSION AGENCIES THAT WE SUPPORT FINANCIALY:
ATLANTA METRO BAPTIST MINISTRIES:
The Atlanta Metro
Baptist Association is a historic association of churches that have
partnered together to change the Metro Atlanta Region. Utilizing their
unique diversity and missional opportunities, the Atlanta Metro churches
will plant churches, renew churches, and engage communities for the
gospel of Jesus Christ. The hope of the world resides in the hope of the
gospel of Jesus.
Our churches are assisted to saturate every heartbeat in every
neighborhood of Metro Atlanta with the gospel through a network of
discipled influencers connected to multiplying churches.
Three components of our vision include neighborhood
understanding, discipled influencer development and multiplying church
strengthening.
ATLANTA METRO BAPTIST ASSOCIATION (atlbaptist.org)
DEVELOPMENT
DISABILITIES MINISTRY:
DDM is a nonprofit, charitable corporation serving adults with
developmental disabilities and their families. DDM owns/operates 18
group homes in the State of Georgia, serving approximately 70 residents.
At DDM, our mission is to empower persons with developmental
disabilities to achieve their highest level of social, physical,
emotional and spiritual maturity.
Our church has assisted one of their group homes with needed
supplies in addition to our financial support to DDM.
Developmental Disabilities
Ministries | Where Hope Lives (ddmga.org)
GEORGIA BAPTIST
CHILDRENS HOME:
This Christian agency believes in caring for and loving people as Christ
would have us do, maintaining a posture of serving, and walking
alongside children and families.
They use “The
Sanctuary Model®” as a process of growth and change, empowering their
staff, children, and families with the tools needed to manage loss,
promote healing, and create a hopeful future.
Georgia
Baptist Children's Homes and Family Ministries (georgiachildren.org)
GEORGIA BAPTIST
CONVENTION:
GBC’s mission is to provide a
broad range of resources, support and opportunities to strengthen,
empower, and equip Southern Baptist pastors and churches in Georgia to
better fulfill the great commission in their local communities. Their
vision is see Georgia reached with the gospel through healthy, strong,
and thriving pastors and churches.
Home - Georgia Baptist
Mission Board (gabaptist.org)
STEWART CENTER:
The Steward Center is a community development organization that exists
to see our neighbors living purposeful lives in pursuit of their full
potential. The Center has been serving Atlanta communities since 1916.
The organization provides educational enrichment, wellness resources,
and affordable housing solutions to residents of the Pittsburgh
community of southwest Atlanta.
Andrew P. Stewart Center – Serving
Atlanta Communities Since 1916
SPECIAL ANNUAL MISSIONS OFFERINGS:
EASTER: ANNIE ARMSTRONG
OFFERING [Home Missions]:
The offering was started in 1895 by
Woman’s Missionary Union® (WMU) to benefit the work of the Home Mission
Board (now North American Mission Board).
In 1934, it was named in honor of Annie Armstrong, a bold missions
advocate and WMU’s first national executive leader.
Annie Armstrong Easter
Offering 2022 – NAMB
CHRISTMAS: LOTTIE MOON
OFFERING [Foreign Missions]:
The Lottie Moon Christmas Offering® is
an annual offering collected by Southern Baptists to support
international missions. The offering was officially named in 1918 by
Woman’s Missionary Union in honor of Lottie Moon, a missionary to China,
who urged churches to give sacrificially to continue the work of foreign
missions.
Lottie Moon Christmas Offering - IMB Generosity
MISSION AGENCY ON OUR VBBC SITE:
GLOBAL FRONTIER MISSION:
It is our privilege to have GFM leasing office space on our premises
and to see the work that they are doing both locally and abroad.
Global Frontier Missions (GFM) is a movement of Christ-centered
communities dedicated to mobilizing, training, and multiplying disciples
and churches to meet the physical and spiritual needs of the least
reached people groups of the earth.
GFM has a 5 month training school right down the road in
Clarkston where they prepare missionaries for long-term service by
having them serve among the refugees there.
GFM always has had strong convictions that the best way to train
missionaries is on-the-job training by actually doing the work of
evangelism, discipleship and church planting.
They began engaging Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists in “home hubs”
in order to make disciples who will make disciples.
Their goal is to raise up people from these “home hubs” to pray,
give, go, welcome and mobilize others strategically to see the remaining
7,000 unreached people groups have access to the Good News of Jesus.
GFM has also spent the last decade seeking out many strategic
partnerships with other churches and missions organizations to work
together to see the Gospel taken to every tribe, tongue, people and
nation. Check out GFM’s
Story:
https://globalfrontiermissions.org/our-story/