VBM Update From the Homebase - Week 46

Ark Encounter, Preview Day & More: News from Vision Baptist Missions

This fall has been full at Vision Baptist Missions. Our team spent time with 1,500 high school students at the Ark Encounter, an intern in West Africa saw someone come to Christ, and we are getting ready to welcome prospective students and interns for Preview Day on November 19. Here is a look at what God has been doing.

Representing at the Ark Encounter

Travis Snode and Bill Schneider drove most of our Vision School of Missions students to the Ark Encounter in Williamstown, Kentucky, to exhibit at the Creation College Expo. About 1,500 tenth through twelfth graders attended the event.

Our team spent the day at the VBM booth talking with students about missions, church planting, and what it looks like to surrender your life to the Lord's call. They also visited the Creation Museum and the Ark itself. We are grateful for every good conversation and every new contact made.

Preview Day: Thursday, November 19

Preview Day gives prospective students and interns a firsthand look at VBM training. Visitors sit in on the life of the Vision School of Missions, meet current students, and hear from missionaries about the needs in their regions of the world.

If you know a young person who is thinking about missions, please send them this post. They can register for Preview Day here.

Meet our Pastoral Advisory Committee

On the same day, many pastors from our Pastoral Advisory Committee will be on campus. These men pray for our missionaries and want to see VBM remain a strong and lasting mission board for God's glory. The 2026 committee includes pastors from churches in Florida, Georgia, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Tennessee, South Carolina, Maine, Texas, Nevada, and West Virginia.

Intern update: a soul saved in Burkina Faso

Grant Snode is serving as an intern in Burkina Faso under missionaries Dallas and Ashley Brown. Grant has been helping in many ministries and discipling believers while learning a great deal about life on the field. Just recently, God allowed Grant to see someone saved. Praise the Lord!

This is what life-on-life training looks like: an intern working alongside experienced missionaries, learning the work by doing it.

Life on campus

Last week, several of our missionaries gave presentations of their ministries, and they did a great job. It is a blessing to serve alongside men and women who are giving their lives to start churches and train leaders around the world.

Between and after classes, our students have a place to play games and enjoy fellowship together. Learning to work and play as a team is part of preparing for the field.

A look back

Over the years, our school has gone by several names. It began as the Baptist College for World Evangelism (BCWE), became Our Generation Training Center (OGTC), and today is the Vision School of Missions (VSM). Look closely at this old brochure and you will spot a young Travis Snode, now our General Director.

We are blessed with a good history and an even brighter future, because our future rests on the promises of God.

Coming up in 2027

Date	Event
January 29, 2027	Training Intensive
April 16, 2027	Shining Light Players: a drama on the story of Jim and Elisabeth Elliot, on the VBM campus
April 26–30, 2027	VBM Orientation at The Wilds
June 15–18, 2027	WCMT (World's Cheapest Missions Trip)

"Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest." (Matthew 9:37–38, KJV)

Please pray for our missionaries, our students, and the young people who will hear God's call in the year ahead. If the Lord is stirring your heart toward missions, we would love to talk with you. Vision Baptist Missions is your path to missions.

Passionate. Prepared. Purposed.

Dr. Jeffrey Bush on Nov 12, 2026