Village Ministries

Since its inception, the mission of Village Ministries International has been to reach villages and remote areas of the world with the gospel of Jesus Christ. Often, the window of opportunity for missionary activity is open for only a brief period of time. Our organization's goal has been to identify gifted men native to these areas and equip them to carry on the delivery of sound Bible teaching after foreign involvement is discontinued, thus "making disciples" in fulfillment of the Great Commission given to us by our Lord and Savior.

Development began in mid-1998 with the intent of producing a simple, understandable study guide for pastors in the villages of third-world countries. Many of those we came into contact with had no formal Bible training nor had they the means to get it. Their Bible translations lack any type of study helps, and the Bible study tools we take for granted in the United States were either unattainable, unaffordable or both. Our desire was to provide some help that could be mostly self-taught.

Foundations is the first part of our Equip program, which is designed to provide training resources for indigenous pastors and Bible teachers throughout the world so that the gospel can be spread and disciples made.

Foundations is a 500 page, non-denominational book that is designed to teach Christians how to study and interpret Scripture so they may understand the fundamentals of the faith. Also finished and published in English and Spanish is the Foundations Workbook, which is designed to accompany the main book. Coming soon is Foundations with a Study Guide which combines the book and workbook.

Foundations is now touching many different parts of the world. It is offered for no charge to any person who is interested as supplies are available. As distribution began, we saw a huge demand for the material, not only on the foreign mission field, but also from churches in the United States. Many are using it in Sunday School, discipleship classes or special outreach classes. It is also being used in several prison ministries. Demand for the book continues to increase.

In an effort to stay consistent with our purpose of ministry and reach some of the larger populations first, VMI has undertaken the translation and printing of Foundations in several languages—Spanish, Russian, Burmese, , Malayalam (India), Kannada (India), Hindi (India), Tamil (India and Sri Lanka), Tagalog (Philippines), Nepali, Urdu (Pakistan), and Kiswahili (Tanzania and Kenya). We have watched in awe as the demand has extended to many other languages. In various stages of translation and proofing are Arabic, Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Chin (Myanmar), Lisu (Myanmar), Oriya (India), Punjabi (India), and Sinhalese (Sri Lanka).

You may download Foundations in its entirety by clicking on the highlighted translations below:

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English with Study Guide

Burmese Translation

Kannada Translation

Kiswahili Translation

Malayalam Translation

Russian Translation

Spanish Translation

Spanish Workbook

Tamil Translation

Tagalog Translation

Telegu Translation

Urdu Translation

Coming Soon

Hindi Translation

Sinhalese Translation

If you would like an English Foundations, English Workbook, or a Spanish Workbook mailed to you, please contact us. Foundations is offered to everyone on a grace basis which means that we do not charge for this study book, and no one may charge any individual or group of individuals for its use.