Responders are individuals or groups of individuals with specialized skills, abilities, knowledge or experience or with other particular resources such as commitment to prayer, financial giving, or simply an able body and willing heart who stand “on call” to offer themselves when Virginia Baptists’ mission ministries have need of their gifts and talents.

Examples:

Disaster response ministries, construction missions, medical missions, Crisis Care Chaplains, volunteers helping with administrative needs, financial adoption of a missionary or orphan child, and prayer support for victims of disaster or for particular mission ministries ventures, etc.
 

Servants are individuals or teams who serve in hands-on missions for one week to six months.

Examples:

INDIVIDUALS: project or field coordinators,
collegiate summer missionaries, ministry apprentices

TEAMS: Partnership teams, youth groups on mission trips, camp staff, Impact VA! and Transformers

Venturers are individuals, eighteen years or older, who serve in hands-on mission roles for a period of six months to two years.

Examples:

Young adults taking a break
between high school and college or during their college career, new college graduates, adults transitioning from a secular career into a ministry, and retirees

Kingdom Advance Ambassadors are individuals who serve in an on-going specialty role in a mission field setting. Terms are usually longer than two years.

Examples:

Ambassadors to a country or people group (China, Liberia, Romany Gypsies, Latinos,
Military, and Muslims)