VISION

Jesus Village is a covering ministry for many frontline ministries to come together and work together to bring accountability as we teach, train, disciple and build up ministries, musicians and individuals. While challenging and encouraging the body of Christ to reach out to their own communities, to the poor, disinfranchised and forgotten and into subcultures that may otherwise go overlooked by society & often even by the church. We want to reach the lost where they're at, showing them who Jesus is by loving & serving them. Here, as with any Jesus Village event our goal is to build up the local body of Christ including local musicians, teaching them how to do music/festivals as an outreach to their communities. Music missionaries to the lost in their city. We also equip the local church in how to feed the needy in their communities. Taking the church outside the building to where the need is. If you've never been a part of one of these events it is hard to explain, you have to experience it. Just as we try and show our audience Jesus so when they leave, if we did our job right they have experienced the Love of Jesus in a profound way as they saw it poured out on them by a group, a community, a church, a body, a village of believers with Jesus the only agenda. As well as leaving fed both physically and spiritually.

Jesus said the first shall be last and the last shall be first. He also said, you want to be the favorite, the best, the most? Follow me. And He washed their feet. He served the servants and then laid down His life for them and us. Okay, I meant I wasn't going to preach but there you are. That's who we are.

We are a not for profit 501c3. Called to be a covering ministry that teaches wherever possible, but especially in the secular environments where they live. How to serve each other and reach the lost with the love of God, that as believers they should know we are Christians by our love for each other. So our goal is to teach and serve the servants and in doing so reach the un-reachables. Love the un-lovables. Embrace & bless those who are lost and forgotten, broken & left behind in a world that has left them and could care less as to whether they live or die. We go to them to hopefully show them God loves them and with as few words as possible. With our actions, with our lives poured out on them. Not religion or some doctrine of man that too often gets in the way. But a Jesus that's alive and well, though he came to die for us and that He came to give us life and life more abundantly. In an ever increasing world of hurt, pain & darkness. He found us and God gave this to us freely so we in turn give freely that others may receive this precious gift as well.

Biker Outreach
We go to the major secular bike rallies like Sturgis, South Dakota and Bike Week in Daytona Beach to serve national bike ministries by doing outreach concerts to draw in the bikers. Biker ministries are there to serve food and coffee and share God's love one on one during and after concerts. The biker ministries then direct them to the local network of Christian ministries who do follow up. Converts that need a residential program we send to the His Laboring Few Harvest Camp in Highpoint, North Carolina where we are part of a 90 day or 1 year alcohol and drug residential biker rehab program His Laboring Few, geared to handle the specific needs of bikers.

Native American Outreach
All studies on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome have been done on Native American Reservations because of the epidemic proportions of alcohol and drug abuse there. The oppression is greater there than in any other part of America. Yet it was once their land, and for that very reason no one wants to deal with the problem. They are a forgotten people, unless organized crime wants to start a gambling casino. We work with Broken Arrow Ministries on the reservations around America and Canada bringing food, clothes, bot most of all hope to a dying Nation. We also do outreach concerts on reservations working with local ministries to do follow up work

Street Outreach
Usually someone's group has been praying over an area for some time and then they hear of us and ask us into areas where alcohol, drugs and crimes have taken over neighborhoods and cities. We strategize outreach concerts, where we meet the needs of the area, such as food and clothing and bring them into a free concert where we then minister to them and direct them to the group who brought us in. We then refer them to churches and drug rehabs depending on their needs.

Homeless Ministry
We work with many rescue missions around the country ministering where we can: feeding people or doing concerts for the people, or ministering to the staff who always need encouragement since this is a difficult ministry. We have found this to be where we can most effect change with the growing epidemic of millions of homeless in America. We encourage the staff with a concert and sharing testimonies and the Word. We try to make the churches aware of the plight of the homeless in America, encouraging them that it is the churches' responsibility to do something about this problem, not the welfare system or the government.

Prison Outreach
We do a limited amount of ministry in the prisons because it takes a lot to get into them to minister. Each year we have worked in the New York State Prison system with hardcore men, women and even teens, where we have ministered to some of the youngest murderers in America. The needs in this area are overwhelming. We spend a lot of time encouraging others to also go into their local prison system to minister. After an outreach concert in the prison system, we then send the people to the local chaplain or ministry already established in their prison. We then send newsletters as an ongoing ministry.

Feeding Ministry
Where in the past we had a feeding ministry directly to the streets, things have changed through the years. Most places where we were feeding people the work continues. We got more involved through the year in getting food from places then distributing it to other distributors of the food to the needy, especially residential drug rehabs. Around the country, we can now network people to sources of food for their communities. We still try and feed meals at our outreach concerts, but would like to dedicate more resources to getting more food in the hands of local feeding ministries so they can be an ongoing presence in those communities where there is the greatest need on a daily basis. We know that feeding the hungry, in this country where there is so much waste, shows the love of Christ through His people to a population of hopeless, disillusioned, discouraged and hungry to know that someone really does care.