Step out.
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tranSend provides the opportunity of one year of service for young adult individuals and couples who are exploring a future long-term ministry. Through this valuable experience, you will learn the principles of international ministry which can build a foundation for future long-term service.

Go beyond.

A cross-cultural ministry setting is a place for learning and practicing holistic ministry along with the guidance of an experienced field worker.
Core areas of work and study include:
• Team building
• Language and culture
• Major world religions
• Church planting
• Teaching English
• Online academic training with Eastern Mennonite Seminary
• Other areas adjusted to individual’s interest and call

An experienced field worker will walk alongside you providing encouragement, accountability and insight. Relating to the local community and other mission workers allows for discernment as God’s call becomes clear.

Learn like a disciple.

Jesus’ disciples learned while following Jesus’ call to witness and serve in the world.

You can also learn this way. Through a special arrangement with the Biblical Lands Educational Seminars and Service (BLESS) of Eastern Mennonite Seminary, you can participate with other volunteers around the world in the course “Cross-Cultural Discipleship” and other seminary courses offered on-line as part of your tranSend assignment.

tranSend workers are eligible to receive a full tuition scholarship for one or more BLESS courses during their term of service.

Find your foothold.

Your interests and gifts can fit many service locations around the world, and tranSend can open the door for you to:
• Shadow a long-term mission worker
• Witness among the unreached
• Teach English
• Teach the children of mission workers
• Teach music for worship
• Organize youth clubs
• Participate in community development
• Receive training for long-term cross-cultural ministry
• Explore other talents and ways to use them

The next step.

If you are called to work in areas of human need, tranSend is for you.
• Make a difference in the lives of those suffering from all manner of societal problems, including poverty, health needs, and social deterioration
• Connect your ministry with a local Mennonite congregation or agency
• Integrate your service with intentional spiritual or evangelistic participation in your placement community

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Annual application deadline: February 28
Orientation begins July 12, 2012 and continues through July 18.
Commissioning will be July 19, place TBD.

For more information, contact Ken Horst, Director
(540) 434-9727
(800) 707-5535
ken.horst@vmmissions.org

tranSend application (PDF)
Want a brochure for tranSend? Email us! (info null@null vmmissions NULL.org)
Check out some mission worker blogs!

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Open tranSend opportunities:

Albania
Secondary teachers at Lezha Academic Center
Preschool teacher at Joshua Center

Belize
Church planter for deaf community

Cambodia
Rural ministry volunteers

China
English teachers with Mennonite Partners in China (http://www NULL.mennonitepartnerschina NULL.org/)

Costa Rica
Volunteer at Pura Vida Missions (http://puravidamissions NULL.com/)

Czech Republic
Church planting team

Guatemala
Central American Study & Service (http://semilla NULL.mennonite NULL.net/ingles/CASAS/casas NULL.html) (CASAS) volunteer

Honduras
Nurse in Christian hospital
Volunteer staff at an orphanage

Indonesia
Urban ministry volunteer with Servants to Asia’s Urban Poor (http://www NULL.servantsasia NULL.org/)

Israel/Palestine
Nazareth Village (http://www NULL.nazarethvillage NULL.com/) volunteer

Lithuania
Pastoral intern in English-speaking congregation
English teachers at LCC International University (http://www NULL.lcc NULL.lt/)

Philippines
Interns with Peacebuilders Community (http://peacebuilderscommunity NULL.org/)

Thailand
Rural English teachers
Volunteers (teachers, social workers, nurses) at Bangkok Refugee Center (http://www NULL.brcthai NULL.org/)

Ukraine
Teaching English at Donetsk Christian University (http://old NULL.dcu NULL.org NULL.ua/en/aboutdcu/about NULL.php)

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tranSenders say…

“Participating in VMM’s tranSend program gave me the opportunity to see the Church in a global context. There were cultural differences but the core was the same — all of us were worshipping the same God. The highlight of my year in Paraguay was the relationships formed there—with my host family, the youth group, the neighborhood, and the church people—all very enriching! Learning to converse in Spanish was both humbling and rewarding. I’m so grateful for the privilege of living in South America for a year.

—Rose Jantzi served in Asunción, Paraguay

“ . . . radical obedience calls us to interesting places . . .I am on a journey with the Lord, I am in a relationship with a living God that has no end. It will only continue to deepen. . .I know in my own experience overseas I have learned much more about what I believe from interactions during my assignment rather than reading textbooks at home. Experience trumps the seminary classroom nine times out of ten.”

—Connor Guptil, Asbury seminary student, served in Nazareth Village, Israel

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