From Tod Vogt, Executive Director:
Listing your milestones is like storing a pocketful of sunshine for a rainy day. -Winston Churchill
Since 2024 is Mission Alive’s 20th year of ministry, we are taking the time to list some important milestones:
September 2005 – The first Mission Alive church was planted.
Spring 2007 – John Cooke, Tod, and Candace Vogt joined the Mission Alive team.
January 2011 – Kevin Vance planted the first inner-city church plant.
April 2012 – Mission Alive developed a focus on discipleship training.
January 2014 – Wes Gunn planted the Redland Hills Church in Wetumpka, AL.
January 2015 – Tod Vogt became Mission Alive’s executive director.
July 2017 – Mission Alive founders, Gailyn and Becky Van Rheenen, retired to Atlanta, GA.
August 2019 – Blake and Katie Burchfield planted the Peace Initiative among the Lakota Sioux of southwestern South Dakota.
January 2021 – Steve Shaffer and Tod Vogt published Catalyze Coaching. Later that year they collaborated with several other authors and published Discipleship Cohorts.
June 2023 – Vini and Rachel Montesdeoca started a discipleship network among Spanish speaking people in Abilene, Texas, that will eventually become a church. Steve and Laura Allen launched The Table – Irving, a church plant working alongside several nonprofits to help the poor and working class of Irving, Texas.
While it is true that in between these events, there have been some significant challenges, it is also true that staying focused on all of the good God has done provides the power to look ahead to the next 20 years. Would you join us in praying for God to lead us to plant more churches in more places and see more people come to Christ in the next 20 years?