Opportunities
Children’s Ministry Worker – Brazil
Position Summary:
The Children’s Ministry Worker will initiate and/or expand outreach in the areas of evangelism and discipleship among children in the Amazon region in meaningful, replicable ways, working alongside national and native believers where possible. Specific challenges to this role mirror those of any position serving communities marked by poverty, marginalization, discrimination, and the effects of trauma.
Qualifications:
The Children’s Ministry Worker should have a desire to see individuals and communities transformed by the gospel and understand how service to children fits in that big-picture vision. He or she must be relational, creative, flexible, and a natural problem solver. The Children’s Ministry Worker should be a learner, willing to adapt to non-Western norms and approaches. He or she must also have the ability (or a willingness to learn how) to work with children and equip others to do so as well.
Ideal Children’s Ministry Worker competencies are:
- Mature Christian: A Christ-like character with a listening heart that demonstrates a humble spirit
- Theological: An understanding of basic Bible study skills and how to communicate biblical truths in simple language
- Interpersonal Skills: Relational, flexible and an ability to work well on a team and with children and adults
- Training and Development: Strong communication skills, a continual learner, willing to teach and be taught from a variety of sources
- 2-5 years of experience or training with children preferred
- A willingness to learn an advanced level of Portuguese
Accountability:
The Children’s Ministry Worker is accountable to God, the World Team Manaus team leader, and the WTM team.
Responsibility:
The Children’s Ministry Worker will create and/or expand outreach to children in a variety of communities, partnering with local believers where possible. Responsibilities will include:
- Building trust and relationships with adults and children in the communities of service
- Extensive observation and understanding of current outreach efforts and the application of context- appropriate outreach methods and resources
- Learning and gaining understanding around the struggles and barriers children face within their communities
- Outreach to children through evangelism and discipleship
- Training in and walking alongside strong local believers that desire to work in children’s ministry
- Developing outreach ideas in concert with local leadership to further engage the children in their communities
- Recruit, orient, and integrate children’s volunteers into outreach opportunities
- Ensure that the Child Safeguarding policies are observed in all children ministry settings in culturally appropriate ways
- Church planting and multiplication among urban indigenous with the local team
- Work together in tandem with the WTM team and ministry partners
- As part of the Manaus Field, this role will take part in field-level activities, including field retreats and conferences, regular business and prayer meetings, and other tasks as needed.
Anticipated Outcomes:
The Children’s Ministry Worker will be an integral part of helping strengthen local indigenous churches and leaders in Manaus by helping facilitate children’s ministries within the communities served by WTM and local ministry partners.
Evangelism and Discipleship – Brazil
Position Summary:
The Evangelism & Discipleship worker will strive to see the gospel established in unengaged and underreached communities in the urban center of Manaus and the surrounding region. They will evangelize, make disciples within an identified community and work with the nationals/indigenous to establish a healthy, multiplying local church and church leadership. The WTM worker will not become the local pastor but is integrally involved in the church planting process and development and training of local leaders with WTM and other local partners.
Qualifications:
The ideal candidate has a mature walk with the Lord and is continually seeking to grow in godliness and to abide in Christ and is presently evangelizing and making disciples within their current context.
Ideal character traits for this candidate include flexibility, humility, resilience, interest in other cultures and peoples, and a genuine love for the lost. The ministry context involves discrimination, marginalization, effects of trauma, extreme poverty for the communities served as well as pervasive spiritual warfare. Wisdom and spiritual maturity is important to navigate these challenges.
World Team highly values immersion into the local culture and context, so the ideal candidate will be willing to work hard to learn the local language, worldviews, majority culture, and minority subcultures.
The ideal candidate has:
- Biblical and theological training (formal or informal)
- An ability to interpret and communicate Scripture
- A willingness to learn and the ability to adjust methods to a different cultural context, and a desire to equip locals to do the same
- An ability to discern between cultural norms and biblical truths and to address problematic theology in a culturally aware manner
- A highly relational, flexible, and humble spirit
- A capacity for equipping and supporting others in their calling to evangelize and disciple
- Experience with minority, migrant, marginalized, or otherwise vulnerable populations or is willing to learn about the unique challenges of these communities
- Ability to suspend judgment and work in high levels of ambiguity
- At least 1-2 years experience in evangelism and discipleship
- A willingness to learn an advanced level of Portuguese
Accountability:
The Evangelism & Discipleship worker is accountable to God, World Team Manaus team leader, and WTM teammates.
Responsibility:
The Evangelism & Discipleship worker will work on a team to provide mutual encouragement and accountability. They will:
- Establish local relationships
- Share the gospel in culturally contextualized ways
- Make disciples that make disciples
- Identify disciples and connect them to other believers and a local church where possible (facilitating or creating opportunities as needed)
- Promote maturity and healthy Christian living
- Assist in the church planting process
- Train local leadership in reproducible discipleship and evangelism methods
- As part of the Manaus Field, this role will take part in field-level activities, including field retreats and conferences, regular business and prayer meetings, and other tasks as needed.
Anticipated Outcomes:
The Evangelism & Discipleship worker, trusting God for the results, will be responsible for working towards the following:
- An increase in worshipers of God among the urban indigenous in the Amazon region
- Local leadership developed and leading in local churches and among unreached in their communities
- Believers desiring to pursue missions equipped and mobilized
Expansion Team Leader for Muslims – Paraguay
World Team:
World Team is an interdenominational Christian mission agency with more than 350 workers sharing the gospel in 28 countries. We place innovative teams among the lost with a goal of seeing disciples brought into communities of faith that will multiply and impact the world for Jesus Christ.
Position Summary:
The Team Leader will work to create a new ministry site for World Team. They will address two significant challenges to fulfilling WT’s purpose of …establishing reproducing churches focusing on the unreached peoples of the world:
- Reaching the growing number of Muslim peoples in their assigned city/region and then expanding the work to neighboring cities/regions
- Mobilizing and equipping more WT workers for church planting and multiplication (CP&M)
The Team leader will oversee a team of workers serving among an unreached Muslim people group while working alongside national workers to facilitate, maintain, and grow a local church network, train volunteers, and mobilize new workers as they engage in church planting and multiplication.
Qualifications:
To effectively oversee a ministry expansion, the Team Leader needs to utilize a collaborative leadership style. As he/she comes alongside national workers to help shape and develop the team and the local network, he/she will discover the skills, gifts, and abilities of those they serve alongside. Through this, tasks can be assigned by the local team that allow for church planting and multiplication to take place.
Ideal Team Leader competencies are:
- Mature Christian: Leaders should have a strong biblical foundation and Christ-like character (formal theological training is beneficial but not required)
- Character: a listening heart and demonstrating a gospel-humble spirit
- Mobilizing: Implement a mobilization strategy to recruit workers for ministry
- Administrative and Logistical Support: Alongside national brothers and sisters interested or engaged in this ministry, coordinate ministry and training schedules, hold team meetings, provide appropriate forms of reports (written, verbal or other), communicate with donors and other leaders, handle team finances, etc.
- Team Building: Good interpersonal, listening, shepherding, coaching, and evaluating skills
- Training and Development: Strong facilitation skills to provide training for the local teams in conjunction with other WT leaders and the local network
- Networking and Communication: Grow the local church network of those interested in this ministry through vision casting, verbal and written communication, relationship building, training, and providing or discovering [existing] opportunities for service
- 3-5 years’ experience or training in a leadership role
- 3-5 years’ experience in ministry
Accountability:
The Team Leader is accountable to the Expansion Implementation Team leaders.
Responsibilities:
The Team Leader will provide on-the-ground direction, instruction, and oversight for:
- Team: Oversight of workers includes shepherding, team building, evaluation, administration, logistics, and planning
- Outreach:
- Create CPM strategies to reach the Muslim community
- Develop team and volunteer training to expand outreach efforts
- Track spiritual progress of the community
- Networking: Work with local churches and organizations to attract, train and mobilize workers for their ministry location and WT global ministries
- Ministry: Create church planting and multiplication strategies and manage the flow of day-to-day ministry
- Planning: Develop and implement an annual plan, budget, and contingency plan
- Team Evaluation: Perform annual evaluations for the local team
Anticipated Outcomes:
- Expand the vision of churches and individuals in your network for CPM among Muslims
- Mobilize eight workers over a 5-year period for CPM locally and globally from within your network
- Utilize church planting and multiplication strategies to form a CPM movement in the Muslim community
- Mobilization of workers from the ministry harvest
- Be actively involved in God’s ultimate goal of every tribe, nation, people, and tongue in perfect attendance in the throne room (Revelation 7:9)
Length of Service:
- The Team Leader will be asked to commit to serving for five years.
Working Environment:
- The Expansion Implementation Team will work with The Team Leader to create and evaluate ministry strategies, team building and development, training in CPM and disciple-making movements, developing their network and mobilization
- WT Member Care and Training resources (WT Global & WT US) and consultations will be made available to all World Team workers
- The Team Leader and the teams will participate in annual team retreats or conferences for ministry and spiritual refreshment
- The Team Leader’s role is a support-raising, full-time position. Candidates must be able to live and work in assigned ministry site in proximity to selected Muslim peoples
NGO Coordinator – Belgium
World Team:
World Team is an interdenominational Christian mission agency with more than 350 workers sharing the gospel in 28 countries. We place innovative teams among the lost with a goal of seeing disciples brought into communities of faith that will multiply and impact the world for Jesus Christ.
Position Summary:
This role will serve as the leader of an NGO that will allow the team to effectively serve in the local community, as well as provide visas for the team to remain in Belgium. The NGO Coordinator role will address three significant challenges to fulfilling WT’s purpose of …establishing reproducing churches focusing on the unreached peoples of the world:
- Create and implement opportunities through the NGO that will allow for effective outreach to the growing number of Moroccans in Brussels, Belgium and then provide expansion options for the NGO to work in neighboring cities/countries
- Provide the means for mobilizing and equipping more WT workers for church planting and multiplication (CP&M)
- Provide oversight and manage the daily running of the NGO
This individual will join our church planting team working among the Moroccans in Brussels and help to develop a Cultural NGO that will meet the needs of the people they serve. This person must be flexible and responsive to the felt needs of the community. They must be a learner themselves in order to converse on a variety of topics that are being taught within the center. This person will be expected to manage the NGO and work with nationals.
Qualifications:
Organizational, administrative, and strong interpersonal skills are essential to this role. The ideal candidate has the capacity to work effectively with a wide variety of volunteers, networks, and workers. Cross-cultural experience is beneficial, along with a passion for reaching unreached Muslims.
The ideal candidate has:
- A Christ-like character with a listening heart, and that demonstrates a gospel-humble spirit
- Excellent organizational skills and the ability to multitask and manage multiple processes
- Ability to coordinate logistics, ministry schedules, and NGO work schedule
- Ability to develop best practices and improve processes for the local team and nationals
- Proven reporting and tracking skills
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Formal theological training is beneficial but not required
- 3-5 years’ experience or training in an administrative role
Accountability:
This individual is directly accountable to the Team Leader.
Responsibilities:
- Provide NGO oversight for workers and volunteers so that the team can effectively serve the Moroccan community
- Volunteer mobilization (nationals and other workers), training, scheduling, and oversight for multiple weekly activities
- Create and maintain records and provide required reports in a timely fashion to maintain an NGO in Belgium
- Create and provide oversight for the NGO budget, and develop project plans to enhance the NGO
- Organize, schedule, and manage the logistics of meetings and events
- Handle technical issues in their area of expertise
- Carry out general clerical duties as required to operate the NGO
- Church planting and multiplication among Moroccans with the local team
RFIS Teachers and Staff
Position Summary:
Rain Forest International School is located in Yaoundé, Cameroon, and operates as a school for grades 6-12. RFIS was founded in 1991 to provide missionaries in this part of Africa with an excellent academic program for their children. Today, RFIS serves missionary families from all over the world and students from Cameroon.
RFIS offers a Christian academic, social, athletic, artistic, and spiritual environment that prepares students for their next stage of life. We are looking for people with a passion for transforming lives who possess specific skills and abilities:
Current Vacancies (full-time):
- Teacher/Athletic Director
- Librarian
- Guidance Counselor
- Affective Counselor (can be part-time)
- Learning Support
- Highschool Science
- Highschool Math
- Highschool English
- Highschool History
- Middle School STEM (Math, Science, and Computers)
- Middle School Humanities (Bible and Social Studies)
Current Vacancies (part-time):
- Advanced German or Spanish
- Computer
- Middle School English
- IT (Software Implementation and Support)
- IT (Networking)
Qualifications:
An RFIS teacher must have a vibrant spiritual life characterized by consistent practice of spiritual disciplines. They will need to be willing to live in a cross-cultural environment, though their ministry will be primarily to English speakers in the Cameroonian capital of Yaoundé.
The ideal candidate has:
- A Bachelor’s degree in a field related to teaching or equivalent experience.
- Two (2) years of experience in teaching.
- Willingness to commit to a minimum of 1 school year.
Accountability:
RFIS teachers are directly accountable to the RFIS Director of Academics and the World Team Cameroon Field Director.
Responsibility:
RFIS Teachers provide education for RFIS students based on philosophy, policy, pedagogy, and practice, which are in accord with the Word of God and to encourage students to appreciate the subject area and apply the Word of God to their own lifelong learning.
Anticipated Outcomes:
RFIS teachers will be responsible for working toward the following:
- Educate middle and high school students (including but not limited to the children of missionaries).
- Allow fellow missionaries to be able to focus on their primary job roles while knowing that their children will be receiving a good education.
Pol Bible Translation Advisor – Cameroon
Position Summary:
This Pol Bible Translation Advisor will work to create and maintain Gospel relationships with Pol men and women. To do this, they will need to move into the Pol community and learn their language and culture. This will lead to opportunities to evangelize the Pol, disciple new believers, and raise up Pol church leaders. The Bible Translation advisor will also come alongside the Pol community to aid in Bible translation work.
The Pol is an unreached group that primarily follows an animistic traditional religion. As such, ministry among the Pol is considered pioneering and will require an independent and perseverant spirit.
Qualifications:
A Pol Bible Translation Advisor will need to have a vibrant spiritual life characterized by consistent practice of the spiritual disciplines. They will need to have a solid understanding of the Scriptures and particularly how Old Testament stories lead to the person and work of Christ. Patience will also be necessary as it will take time and disciplined study to faithfully communicate to the Pol in their own language.
The ideal candidate has the following:
- A BA in biblical studies or equivalent experience.
- At least a Certificate of Applied Linguistics (or equivalent experience).
- A willingness to commit at least ten (10) years to the project.
- A solid commitment to the spiritual disciplines (i.e., Bible reading, prayer, etc.).
Accountability:
The Pol Bible Translation Advisor is directly accountable to the Cameroon Field Director.
Responsibility:
The Pol Bible Translation Advisor will work on a team to develop self-sustaining, Pol-led, healthy churches while also coming alongside the Pol community to help translate the Bible into the Pol language. They will:
- Live among the Pol people, learning their language and culture before beginning formal ministry.
- Teach the Bible in formal and informal settings.
- Evangelize the unbelieving Pol people.
- Disciple believers in a life-on-life manner.
- Train up future church leaders.
- Exegete Scripture to develop front translations which Pol translators will use.
- Analyze the Pol language and help the Pol people develop a written form of their language.
- Lead translation drafting sessions.
- Lead testing in Pol villages.
- Communicate with Bible translation consultants through the process of editing and finalizing drafts.
- Publish finalized Pol Bible texts.
- Teach literacy among the Pol.
- Other field or agency duties as assigned.
Anticipated Outcomes:
The Pol Bible Translation Advisor will be responsible for working toward the following:
- Professional working proficiency in the Pol language.
- A formal analysis of the Pol language with recommendations for a writing system.
- Faithful evangelism in the Pol language leading to Pol people coming to know Jesus Christ as their Savior.
- A complete translation of the Bible into the Pol language.
- Bible teaching and discipleship in the Pol language leading to mature Pol believers forming themselves into Pol churches.
- Leadership training for the new and discipled Pol believers leading to pastors, deacons, and other Pol church leaders both leading and planting their own churches.
Pol Church Planter – Cameroon
Position Summary:
The church planter will work to create and maintain gospel relationships with Pol men and women. To do this, they will need to move into the Pol community and learn their language and culture. This will lead to opportunities to evangelize the Pol, disciple new believers, and raise Pol church leaders. The Pol is an unreached group that primarily follows a traditional animistic religion. As such, ministry among the Pol is considered pioneering and will require an independent and perseverant spirit.
Qualifications:
A Pol church planter must have a vibrant spiritual life characterized by consistent practice of the spiritual disciplines. They will need to have a solid understanding of the Scriptures and particularly how Old Testament stories lead to the person and work of Christ. Patience will also be necessary as it will take time and disciplined study to faithfully communicate to the Pol in their language.
The ideal candidate has the following:
- A BA in biblical studies or equivalent experience.
- Five (5) years of church leadership experience is preferred.
- A wiliness to commit at least ten (10) years to the project.
- A solid commitment to the spiritual disciplines (i.e., Bible reading, prayer, etc.).
Accountability:
The Pol church planter is directly accountable to the Cameroon Field Director.
Responsibility:
The Pol church planter will work on a team to develop self-sustaining, Pol-led, healthy churches. They will:
- Live among the Pol people, learning their language and culture before beginning formal ministry.
- Teach the Bible in formal and informal settings.
- Evangelize the unbelieving Pol people.
- Disciple believers in a life-on-life manner.
- Train up future church leaders.
- Other field or agency duties as assigned.
Anticipated Outcomes:
The Pol church planter will be responsible for working toward the following:
- Professional working proficiency in the Pol language.
- Faithful evangelism in the Pol language leading to Pol people coming to know Jesus Christ as their Savior.
- Bible teaching and discipleship in the Pol language leading to mature Pol believers forming themselves into Pol churches.
- Leadership training for the new and discipled Pol believers leading to pastors, deacons, and other Pol church leaders both leading and planting their own churches.
Fulbe Church Planter – Cameroon
Position Summary:
This church planter will come alongside believing Fulbe leaders to equip them to evangelize and disciple their people. To do this, they will need to move into the Fulbe community, learn their language and culture, and be willing to work in the background, primarily in leadership development. One of the most significant challenges to achieving these goals is that the Fulbe are a Muslim, unreached people group. It will take caution and wisdom to help Fulbe people understand how faith in Christ will work out in their lives and families.
Qualifications:
A Fulbe church planter must have a vibrant spiritual life characterized by consistent practice of the spiritual disciplines. They will need to have a solid understanding of the Scriptures and particularly how Old Testament stories lead to the person and work of Christ. Patience will also be necessary as it will take time and disciplined study to faithfully communicate to the Fulbe in their language.
The ideal candidate has the following:
- A BA in biblical studies or equivalent experience.
- Five (5) years of church leadership experience is preferred.
- A willingness to commit at least 10 years to the project.
- A solid commitment to the spiritual disciplines (i.e., Bible reading, prayer, etc.).
Accountability:
The Fulbe church planter is directly accountable to the Cameroon Field Director.
Responsibility:
The Fulbe church planter will work on a team to develop self-sustaining, Fulbe-led, healthy churches. They will:
- Live among the Fulbe people, learning their language and culture before beginning formal ministry.
- Teach the Bible in formal and informal settings.
- Equip Fulbe leaders to evangelize the unbelieving Fulbe people (primarily Muslim).
- Train Fulbe church leaders to disciple believers in a life-on-life manner.
- Develop current and future church leaders in Biblical and practical leadership skills.
- Other field or agency duties as assigned.
Anticipated Outcomes:
The Fulbe church planter will be responsible for working toward the following:
- Professional working proficiency in the Fulfulde language (the language of the “Fulbe” or “Fulani” people).
- Leadership development for the current discipled Fulbe believers to help them grow in evangelism, discipleship, and leadership skills.
- Coming alongside Fulbe leaders in their evangelism and discipleship efforts, joining into evangelism, Bible teaching, and discipleship when appropriate with a goal of Fulbe believers forming themselves into Fulbe churches.
Entrepreneur – Central Asia
Position Summary:
The entrepreneur will either join an existing business project or begin their own. They will establish a company that will provide jobs and create opportunities for building community relationships. This person will establish management processes that equip others to share the responsibility and grow in skills. They may also incorporate internship opportunities to train others to be successful in similar endeavors.
Specific challenges to this position include long work hours during the business start-up phase, navigating unique governmental requirements for operating a business, and identifying a viable business niche to engage in.
Qualifications:
A qualified candidate will have a generalized (or specific) business acumen. Specific experience is not required but may be helpful. The type of business one pursues would be dependent upon current skills, interests, or experience and identified needs in the host society. Specific education is not required, but an understanding of doing business with a focus on not just being fiscally responsible but also people/relationally focused is a plus (i.e., an understanding of concepts of BAM). A propensity to persevere through adversity is extremely helpful. This position would require a minimum of a five-year commitment.
Accountability:
The entrepreneur is responsible to themselves and any business partners as well as government regulations for business-related affairs. They will report to their team leader for organization-related accountability.
Responsibility:
The entrepreneur will need to establish a business from start to finish. This includes:
- Establishing a viable business plan
- Gathering capital for the business
- Training staff
- Developing various company policies and protocols
- Incorporating God-honoring principles throughout the business
Anticipated Outcomes:
A successful candidate, by God’s grace, will work toward the following:
- Creating a business that develops others
- Establishing a healthy customer base
- Deep relationships with staff
- Providing visas for other colleagues
- Training others to be successful entrepreneurs
Church Planter – Central Asia
Position Summary:
The church planter will work to see a healthy local church established among an unreached people group. They will focus on building relationships, sharing the good news, and investing in those they identify as faithful to do the same.
Qualifications:
The ideal candidate will have a mature walk with the Lord where they continually seek to grow in godliness and to abide in Christ. Experience in evangelism and discipleship is preferred. They do not need any specific higher education but should be able to handle the Word of God. This position is a long-term opening, as much of the work is still at the evangelism stage. The ideal candidate will also keep their efforts and various relationships before the Father in prayer.
Accountability:
The church planter is directly accountable to their team and team leader.
Responsibility:
The church planter will work on a team to provide mutual encouragement and accountability. They will:
- Establish local relationships
- Share the Gospel
- Identify disciples
- Promote maturity and healthy Christian living
- Develop leaders
Anticipated Outcomes:
The church planter, trusting God for the results, will be responsible for working toward the following:
- The worshipers of God increasing among an unreached people group.
- The development of local leadership developed and those leaders heading up a local church.