Van Stone Productions Online Ministry School Program Helps To Create Ordained Ministers by Van Stone frontpagenews1@yahoo.com (267) 293-9201
Dr. Michael Anthony Morgan, D.D.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—Van Stone Productions Foundation Community School, otherwise known as VSP, the largest online school ministry to anyone who wants to become a licensed or ordained minister in the state of Pennsylvania, has reached an extraordinary milestone in its Ministry Training School program. Announced during the organization’s 17th anniversary last month, an astonishing 100,000 articles and training materials have been published online for around the world since the program began 17 years ago. This program, funded through charitable donations, has made a crucial difference in advancing the VSP Foundation Community School ministry in the United States.
In June 1995, training materials was launched to meet a pressing need: In many of these troubled neighborhoods in cities across America, thousands of ministers being trained as community counseling specialist by VSP Foundation School of Ministry and eager to evangelize and disciple adults locally in the VSP Foundation School of Training program had the funds to buy the curriculum to do so. Through hard work, VSP printed the curriculum at its headquarters in East Lansdowne, Pa., and then emailed pages of the curriculum for a minimum fee to the ministry’s workers abroad. The high-quality of scriptural lessons that make up the curriculum make the Ministry comes alive for adults.
The leader of VSP Foundation School of Ministry Dr. Michael A. Morgan, D.D. captured the effectiveness of this program when he said: "We are thankful to VSP for those who have a heart for providing the materials to enable our trainees to effectively take the Ministry to adults. The VSP Foundation Licensed and Ordained Minister program has enabled hundreds more to be reached with the How to become a Better Minister Training Manual and has greatly encouraged those trainees who, due to financial abilities, have been able to afford the materials."
The manual How to Become a Better Minister provided a written representation of the many tasks that must be accomplished to get the curriculum around the world, such as fundraising, writing, printing, binding and shipping, to name a few.
The number of training materials emailed has steadily increased each year. In 2010, 12,000 were sent out and in 2011, the total was 16,000. This year, the VSP ministry school expects to more than 18,000 emails in the U.S.A. As a result, the number of adults VSP School of Ministry Trainees has steadily increased through the years. Going back to 1999, the ministry was able to reach just 1 million adults. Last year, the organization reached more than 5 million adults worldwide in 180 cities and territories around the country.
"VSP Foundation School of Ministry has been a popular charitable cause," Dr. Michael A. Morgan, D.D., executive vice president of VSP Foundation Community School, said in a recent interview. "The program fills a concrete need, and as soon as those training materials are received, the community benefit greatly."
