A history of bold steps
For decades, we've been a strategic partnership of churches dedicated to the Great Commission. We believe that local churches are God's primary vehicle for expanding His kingdom.
We exist to help you take risks. Whether you're revitalizing a hundred-year-old congregation or planting a brand new city center, you don't have to do it alone.
1000+
Churches Reached
8
Strategic Regions
Our Journey
May 24, 1943
Approximately 75 Christian leaders gathered in Chicago to pray and seek a faithful path forward amid rising theological division, affirming the authority of Scripture and the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Late 1943
The Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society (now WorldVenture) and later the Conservative Baptist Home Mission Society (now Missions Door), were formed to train, send, and support missionaries with a commitment to the authority of Scripture and the gospel of Jesus Christ.
1947
After continued concern over drifting theological direction, churches that formed the mission agencies separated from their denomination and formed the Conservative Baptist Association of America to remain anchored in historic gospel convictions.
Today
VCN connects, strengthens, and multiplies churches and leaders, empowering gospel-centered collaboration for greater kingdom impact in every community.
Why this Matters
The Church Can't Afford
to Stand Still
In the last several years, church engagement has declined, pastoral health has suffered, and the cultural space for the Gospel has narrowed. Polarizing agendas and shifting values have placed church leaders at greater risk of burnout, compromise, and disengagement, and the church's influence in both sacred and secular communities is shrinking as a result.
We believe this can change. That's why we're committed to helping churches take bold next steps to re-engage the culture with the Gospel.
Now is the time!
What We Believe
Mission & Vision
Our Core Values
The non-negotiable that drive every decision we make.
Gospel Driven
We are committed to an expanding gospel movement through strengthening local church leaders and the churches they serve to advance the gospel boldly and strategically in their communities. Our conviction is that we are to engage our world with the grace and truth of Jesus Christ from a posture of humility, knowing that it is that same gospel message that transforms, sustains, and renews all of us who follow Him. Through the power of the gospel, our lived-out faith creates a culture of disciples loving God, and loving our neighbor, including caring for “the least of these.”
Biblically Focused
The Scriptures, breathed out from God are without error, and our final authority for life, ministry, and godliness. Our missional movement is shaped by the grace and truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ—that Jesus came as the “Word made flesh” at a specific time and place, to bear our sin, die and rise again. This truth and all Scripture, applies to every place in our lives, communities, and world. We are committed and agree together to the core doctrines of Scripture as our final authority, calling us to a lived-out, incarnational faith. We hold tenaciously to our theological foundation, while celebrating a variety of contextualized ministry forms that advance Christ’s mission.
Disciple Making
Acts is the story of the gospel lived and proclaimed, forming disciples who are being shaped into the image of Jesus. These disciples are forming congregations, with elders and the diakonos being intentionally raised to serve Christ’s movement of strengthening and multiplying disciples and churches. Gifted and empowered by the Holy Spirit, these congregations raise new disciples and congregations, despite context, risk, or danger. Our burden is to see the intentional raising up of next-generation Christ-like disciples, leaders and congregations equipped to propagate and serve the gospel for a never-ending cycle of disciple-making.
Relationally Committed
Our conviction is that healthy effective local churches and leaders are essential for the gospel work of the Church to flourish. While locally self-governing, the church and its leaders will be healthier and will serve best in generous and cooperative interdependent relationships with other like-minded ministries and leaders. We believe that synergistic interdependent partnership will strengthen the church and its leaders. It will also provide shared wisdom, encouragement, and resource, with the freedom to risk, play, dream in a secure environment of relationships with one another and the Scriptures. We believe the Biblical directive to spur one another on calls us to a “fierce cooperation” with each other to advance the mission of Jesus.
Our Strategy
We Connect
We connect leaders and churches together. By intentionally engaging with others committed to a common mission, vision, and values, we believe churches and leaders will be healthier, strengthened, and empowered toward more significant personal and corporate gospel effectiveness. Working together, we reach more.
We Explore
We strengthen leaders and churches by coming alongside and serving them as they uncover their unique opportunities and calling for their Spirit-led bold next step. We believe that the intentional calling and building of disciples will lead to bold gospel advancement, healthy churches, healthy leaders, and transformed communities.
We Multiply
We multiply disciples and congregations. The Great Commission calls leaders and churches to intentional disciple-making and multiplication, from the local to the world. Whether multiplying campuses, services, satellites, plants (or replanting) of new disciple-making churches, together, through prayer, collaboration, and resourcing, gospel-centered, transformational churches will be established in every community.
Led by pastors
Our network isn't run by theoreticians in a distant office. We are led by active pastors, proven church planters, and experienced chaplains who understand the grit required for ministry today.
When you partner with Venture, you gain access to a brain-trust of leaders who have faced your exact challenges and have the scars to prove it.
