I started going on short-term mission trips with Vision International Missions in 2009 and by 2011 was volunteering with the organization, joined the Board in 2013 and still volunteer as Board Secretary and Fundraising Director. With this direct, first-hand experience with VIM, I can tell you that there are no paid employees--not even the director. Everyone volunteers their time, wear more than one hat and work to share the love of God with a needy world. The mission trips are what we jokingly call "low luxury". We travel to 3rd world countries, meet up with missionaries on the ground there and do medical and dental clinics, evangelism, marketplace ministry training, building projects, and more. We have relationships that extend back 35 years with full-time missionaries in various countries. We recently learned that over 116 churches have been planted in Ghana over the last few years as a direct result of the mission visits by team coordinated through VIM! Join us by praying for team safety, providing financial support so we can reply to missionary requests and natural disaster relief request, consider taking a trip with us and consider volunteering. God bless you with abundance in financial security and good health.
I have gone on mission trips to Guatemala and Haiti through this volunteer organization so I write this review having first-hand, direct experience. This is a volunteer organization headed by Ken Whitten who has been traveling on missions around the world for 30 years. With a Haitian-born pastor, Ken opened an orphanage on the island of LaGonave, Haiti, in 2011 which currently provides housing, food and education for 28 children. Most of the children have been at the TiPalmiste Community Orphange since it opened. They are all healthier, well nourished and educated. Every penny donated is stretched to provide services, medicines, clothing, etc needed for the orphange or any of the other missions in Guatemala, Honduras, Romania, and right here at home in Manchester, NH or Dorchester, MA. They reach out to the homeless, the poor and the orphaned bringing much needed food, meds and supplies and the word of Jesus. I promise your donation will go far. Only a very small percentage goes to overhead of having a small office & storage room in a warehouse facility, electric, internet and office supplies. God bless Ken and his family for their efforts and God bless you for donating. Jeanie Gorski