Community Development / Church Planter-Senegal
Use your experience and training in community development to do church-planting that holistically ministers to the people of Senegal. Share the gospel with those that you connect with and help them to grow spiritually.
Model, teach and promote community development practices that meet communities’ felt needs.
Are you interested in forming discipleship relationships through community development? We are looking for people with training and experience to join our holistic church planting teams working in Senegal.
This role will benefit the spiritual, physical, and economic well-being of local communities. Working collaboratively, the ideal candidate will provide expertise in community development that will benefit local communities.
The ideal candidate will have
- Training or experience in Muslim ministry, evangelism, and discipleship
- A heart to focus on the spiritual journey of people while addressing their physical realities
- Training or experience in community development (community training center, biogas, skills training, literacy, sanitation, water, etc.), and a willingness and ability to adapt that to the local realities
- Good “handyman” skills. Able to creatively find solutions to practical problems with limited resources. This will be useful both to the local people and to teammates.
- Good language learning skills
- Grit: ability to live in a challenging environment. Senegal is hot and dry for half the year, while in the rainy season the desert blooms, but travel becomes more difficult. Many of the comforts of the developed world are nonexistent, intermittent, or expensive. However, the unreached people are very hospitable, and the government is appreciative of missionaries.
This role will involve serving the local people, developing good relationships with all stakeholders, resulting in opportunities to share the gospel individually and as a team.
- Learn the local language to facilitate deep interpersonal relationships with an unreached people group.
- Collaborate well with teammates and national church missionaries and leaders to develop strong relationships with an unreached people group as a platform for sharing the gospel.
- Develop good relationships with local leaders to learn about local challenges and needs, then develop programs to address those needs.
- Partner well with NGOs and government officials to bring development programs within their local sphere of influence. An intermediate level of French will be needed to accomplish this.