About V3

Who We Are

Our Story

The church is in a major season of upheaval. Sunday-centric, sermon-focused, program-driven approaches are increasingly becoming irrelevant in Post-Christianity. We need new but rooted ways of being the church. In 2013, JR Woodward after 20 years of planting missional churches in Virginia and LA, sensed God inviting him to equip the future of church planters into movemental practices. The GA (the General Association of Virginia) was looking to contribute to a fresh ecumenical kingdom-movement. A deep partnership was formed called the V3 Movement.

A team was assembled to build training that would take dreamers and doers through a journey to plant multiplying mid-size communities. 10 years later the V3 Movement has trained over 600 planters, built a family of coaches, and launched a national gathering. In 2017 Dan White Jr. and JR Woodward crystallized their training in The Church as Movement (InterVarsity Press). The training has moved beyond the American church and has gone international as leaders are looking to move beyond the Church as an Industrial Complex into the Church as a Movement.

Our Team

JR Woodward

National Director

Jessie Cruickshank

Movement Leader (Executive)

Dan White, Jr.

Movement Leader

Emmanuel Mustapha

Director - V3 Africa

Aaron Thomas

Recruitment and Enrollment Manager

Felix Banson

Operations Manager - V3 Africa

Matt Alexander

Community Developer

Taeler Morgan

Coach

Jeffrey Riggs

Awareness Coordinator

Emii Philips-Kim

Executive Administrator

Scott Austin

Coach

Matt Watson

Coach

Benedict Atkins

Coach

Tonya Variya

Webinar Coordinator

Austin Almaguer

Coach

Asaph Jeka

Coach - V3 Africa

Craig Barber

Apprentice Coach

Loise W Wangechi

Coach - V3 Africa

Jonathan Gibson

Apprentice Coach

Sueyoshi Minori

Apprentice Coach - Japan

Cory Doiron

Coach

About V3

What We Embrace

Three V's

The V3 in our logo stands for Vision, Voice, and Viral which represents: discovering a hopeful vision for the in-breaking Kingdom of God in our local places, learning our unique voice within the 5-Fold ministry of Jesus, and developing practices for being a viral movemental church.

Theology and Practice

Theology

God is a community of one - Father, Son, and Spirit in an eternal dance of self-giving love. What is God like? God is like Jesus. God has always been like Jesus. Jesus reveals who God is and what God is like. We didn’t always know this. But now we do.

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Creation is good and beautiful but broken. History is messy and tragic but headed somewhere. God is putting everything back together - renewing, restoring, and reconciling all things.
The gospel is the good news that Jesus, the crucified and risen Messiah, is Lord. This good news is beautiful, radical, expansive, and subversive. God is inviting all of us to submit to His reign and participate in the sharing of this good news in the world.
The kingdom of God is God’s loving, healing, rescuing reign, launched by Jesus on earth as in heaven. We do not wait until we get to heaven to experience this, we get to experience this in part now.
Salvation is God rescuing, judging, and healing all creation. We experience this salvation and enter God’s kingdom by trusting and following Jesus. Then we join God in the renewal of all things.
The church is a concrete local community following the way of Jesus together. The primary work of the church is the mission of God. This mission draws us out into the world with hospitality towards strangers, foreigners, and even our enemies.
The gifts of the church (Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Shepherd, Teacher) are distributed to both men and woman. We believe God needs the whole body working together without favoritism towards one gender over another.
The way of Jesus is the way of love, forgiveness, generosity, peacemaking, and creativity. Jesus does not coerce or control others in his work to change the world. His primary tactic for change is self-emptying love.
The Bible is God’s story and our story, from Israel to the early church to us. The Bible is a God-breathed gift to us. We don’t just read the story or study the story. We live the story. The Bible shows us how to be disciples, on mission, in God's world, in the way of faith, hope, and love.
The future is full of possibilities, promise, and potential. In Jesus, God is throwing a party and everybody is invited. Everybody. We seek to welcome and include everyone, regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, age, education, mental or physical capacity, marital status, or socioeconomic background.

Practice

Life-Forming Discipleship
Rather than starting with a big launch approach to church planting we must start with discipleship. This discipleship must be a concrete pathway for others to join that shapes them into Communion with the Father, Son, and Spirit, Community with others in shared-life, and Co-mission into their places of witness. Without discipleship we are merely creating an audience of consumers. Discipleship is not an extra curricular activity of the church it is the engine of the church. It is vital to recover the act and art of disciple-making.

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V3 is the national church planting movement of the The General Association. (GA).

Contact us at info@thev3movement.org

V3 is the national church planting movement of the The General Association. (GA).