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Provisions
The basic provisions for all Venturers are:
- assistance in interpreting God’s call on the individual’s life and an appropriate response to that call;
- development of a position for service including job description and supervision;
- living arrangements;
- assistance with travel to and from the place of service;
- and a network for accountability, nurture, and counsel.
Funding
Funding for Venturers’ expenses takes four basic forms:
- Venturers who serve in positions that are closely aligned with mission partnerships and strategies of the BGAV may receive expenses and a small stipend from the BGAV
- Venturers may receive financial resources from the hosting ministry partner.
- Venturers may be asked to provide for their own expenses from fund-raising or from personal fixed income (i.e. retirement). Individuals who serve in positions that are to be self-funded will be offered assistance in training and accounting for fund-raising.
- Venturer placements may be funded by a combination of the three options listed above.
Qualifications
Qualifications for service as a Venturer are as follows:
- Demonstrate a lifestyle of faith in and commitment to Jesus Christ as personal Lord and Savior and to the will of God as basic to all of life.
- Demonstrate a commitment to and involvement in a local church congregation. This church should be related to the Baptist General Association of Virginia or to one of its partnering unions of churches.
- Demonstrate a level of personal maturity and health—physical, mental, emotional and spiritual—commensurate to service in the intended field of service.
- Demonstrate a willingness to live and serve for six (6) months to two (2) years as a volunteer independent contractor related to the BGAV, receiving only basic living needs and, in some cases, a modest stipend.
- Demonstrate a sense of appreciation and respect for the diversity of cultures with whom Virginia Baptists serve. Further, agree to follow a missiology that values the autonomy of ministry partners and the primacy of their visions for God-called mission.
- Agree to be accountable to a field supervisor and to the Coordinator of the Venturer Program, handling differences of opinion with openness, respect and professionalism.
- Be at least 18 years of age.