Volunteers for Mission began in 1976 as a program in which people of various backgrounds, skills and professions offer themselves in voluntary service from six months to two years. Volunteers are supported primarily by their local congregations or dioceses.
The Volunteers for Mission program makes personnel appointments in response to requests from bishops of dioceses throughout the Anglican Communion, and ecumenically. Volunteers are placed in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, the Middle East, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Europe.
Forms of service are varied. Volunteers offer their skills in medicine, education, agriculture, development, counseling, administration. They are partners with the host Church wherever they go. Their talents are offered in response to God¹s call, in the context of love, and out of a desire to participate and share in the mission of the Church.
