History


Verse By Verse Ministry of San Antonio is a young organization.  Founded in 2003, the ministry began as a simple way of distributing recorded teachings taken from the Bible studies of Stephen Armstrong, a Sunday school teacher and itinerant preacher. As Stephen taught the Bible in churches, homes and neighborhood club houses around San Antonio, attendance and interest grew, both in his teaching and the ministry website.  Soon, other men and women with a similar love for God's word joined in the work of the ministry, and Verse By Verse Ministry began to take shape.

By 2005, the ministry began to receive requests from churches around the country to hear Stephen teach, and the online audience began requesting more content than the existing website could accommodate. With the help of a website developer, Stephen began work on a new version of the website, and by Fall 2005 the first major update to the VBVM website launched. Almost immediately, the site experienced a surge in traffic and a regular pattern of donations.

The need to accommodate this rise in financial giving to the ministry led to the establishment of a formal non-profit organization called Verse By Verse Ministry of San Antonio and the appointment of a Board of Directors to provide oversight and accountability.

Over the next several years the ministry grew steadily by God's grace. In 2008, the ministry began producing written studies, and by 2009 the ministry website was receiving over 1 million page hits and distributing nearly 50,000 Bible lessons each month.

The current website launched in July 2009 - a major undertaking that has allowed VBVM to continue expanding to serve Bible students around the world with challenging, verse-by-verse teaching of God's word.

VBV Ministry continues to add volunteer staff and Bible teachers to assist in the development and presentation of new curriculum and written study materials. The primary goal of the ministry remains teaching through all sixty-six books of the Bible verse-by-verse and making that teaching available online for free.