Mars Hill Church gives 10% of its budget to support church plants and missionaries through Vision Nationals and the Acts 29 Network.

Vision Nationals began when Jesus Christ called a young man from a Hindu family to follow Him. From the beginning, Arjuna Chilguluri knew that God had chosen him to carry the gospel of Jesus Christ throughout Asia. He prepared for this task through prayer and study. After completing his Masters of Theology from Talbot Seminary in 1987, he held teaching and administration jobs while allowing the God who saved him to form the vision in his heart and bring together everything necessary to launch the ministry.

The time came in 1992. Vision Nationals was incorporated, and the ministry began as a single church plant. Master’s Fellowship, the church planting aspect of the ministry, had begun! God was gracious and more church plants followed. Most of the pastors in these new rural churches were Hindu converts with no theological training, and it was not long before Leadership Training Programs began as a means to equip these leaders to pastor the people in their care. In 1996, Master’s College of Theology was founded as the need arose to prepare young people for ministry in a full-time, highly academic environment.

In addition to church planting and training schools, God’s command to care for orphans and widows had weighed heavy on Arjuna’s mind since the beginning. In 1999, God opened the doors, 22 children arrived at a two-bedroom house to start a new life and Master’s Home for Children was born! Out of this ministry grew the Master’s Public School to provide a first-class education for all of the children in the Master’s Home as well as children in the surrounding area who could not otherwise afford an education.

The Acts 29 Network exists to start churches that plant churches. God is significantly using our network to influence and shape the church planting culture through both rock-solid theology and contextualizing the gospel. We will not waver on either of these commitments. We won’t water down our theology to reach more people and we won’t attack the culture in the name of Christianity. We are planting churches that are missionaries in their respective communities sent by Christ with the gospel (John 20:21). It is our desire to plant 1,000 new churches in the next 20 years.

Within the Acts 29 Network, Mars Hill Ballard has the privilege of supporting several individual churches. This page is a place to learn more about these churches and receive updates on their ministries.