Opportunities
Chinese Minority Culture Student-China
Purpose
Chinese minority culture students will attend a Minority University in China. They will work with a holistic, long-term church-planting team to create and maintain gospel-driven relationships with Muslim minority students and local individuals they meet through attending classes and conducting research.
Position Summary
Study minority people culture at a Minority University! As you take classes, you can build friendships with Muslim students and help connect them to a local holistic church planting team of long-term workers.
Qualifications and Skills
Candidates should be a least 20 years old, have completed two years of university and have intermediate Chinese language skills to attend classes conducted in Chinese only.
Responsibilities
The culture student will collaborate with a team to help plant a church. They will:
- Attend classes as a full-time student
- Live among the unreached people group, learning their language and culture
- Teach the Bible in formal and informal settings
- Evangelize and disciple the people
Agricultural Specialist-Chad
Are you interested in forming discipleship relationships through agriculture? We are looking for people with training and experience to join our holistic church planting team working in the Guera region.
We are specifically seeking those who understand the unique attributes of the Sahel region, including how to create irrigation systems. This person must be willing to spend a great deal of time studying and learning from trained experts and local people concerning current agricultural practices. This person must also be self-motivated and willing to learn with and teach those in the community.
Holistic Church Planting-Chad
Do you have a desire to see churches planted among unreached Muslims? Are you drawn to hard-to-reach places?
We are looking for people with practical or technical skills who are interested in building relationships among unreached people groups in the Guera region. Join a team of like-minded people interested in sharing the love of Christ. Our goal is that through effective evangelism and discipleship, churches will be planted and multiplied. Come, serve, and see what God will do in and through you!
Medical Workers-Chad
Are you interested in forming discipleship relationships as you help people with physical illness? Individuals trained in medical disciplines are needed for our holistic church planting team working in the Guera region.
Workers should have a knowledge of the issues involved in practicing medicine in Africa, particularly in rural areas. We are proposing that this team member become familiar with the Life Abundant Program (a community-based health care program) and discern how best to pursue a similar initiative in Chad. Medical workers will serve with a local health clinic and visit nearby villages to help identify community health issues and develop solutions. Training members of local communities in basic healthcare practices and preventatives will be part of the role.
Team Leader-Chad
Are you a mature Christian with strong leadership and interpersonal skills? Do you have a desire to share Christ in response to the work of grace in your own life? We are looking for a leader who will help mobilize and then oversee a holistic church planting team for a new ministry in the Guera region.
As a leader, you will engage in the beginning stages of developing this new ministry. This role needs a wise, humble, experienced, disciplined and intentional learner.
Biogas Project Manager-Chad
Are you interested in forming discipleship relationships through community development? Do you enjoy fixing things and finding creative solutions? Would you be interested in helping the people of the Guera Region find simple ways to use methane as an alternative fuel?
We are looking for a handyman of sorts with the gift of helps to oversee the biogas project while also being available to help the other members of our holistic church planting team with household projects. Expectations include experimenting with different local materials to make and feed digesters, as well as different types of cookstoves that use methane efficiently. As you progress, you will work with, train and develop discipleship relationships with members of the local community.
Student-Central Asia
Purpose
Students will participate in a collegiate-level program (Bachelor’s or Master’s) while participating in a church-planting team and exploring the potential for long-term work in the area.
Position Summary
The Student in Central Asia will be enrolled in a full-time, college-level program. Their coursework will be in English. They will be encouraged to use their time on campus to build relationships with fellow students and professors of various cultural and ethnic backgrounds.
Qualifications and Skills
This role will pursue a higher education degree while reaching out to students and staff, in order to engage in relationship building. Students must have:
- For the bachelor’s program: A degree from a High School
- For the master’s program: A bachelor’s degree
- Willingness to attend and participate in all enrolled classes
- Desire to learn and grow
- Excitement to build relationships on a university campus
Responsibilities
The Student in Central Asia will:
- Be a responsible student and participant in classes
- Be an active member of a church-planting team
- Build relationships with classmates and professors with the aim of being a light and proclaiming the Good News
- Commit to a 2-4 year assignment
Teach English-Central Asia
The English Teacher in Central Asia will serve an unreached people group through fun and effective English classes. As these learners become more proficient in the English language, they will also be better equipped to seek additional employment options. As the English Teacher shares their life, time, skills, and love with their students in practical ways, they will develop positive relationships that will lead to opportunities to share the gospel.
This role is designed for workers who desire to teach English, which may include informal English clubs or formal teaching assignments in a secular institution. Some assignments require internationally recognized certifications, while others may not. The students will gain valuable skills, and the English Teacher will have a natural bridge for building relationships and sharing the gospel.
The English Teacher will use their skills, education, and spiritual gifts to serve the community. Formal Bible training and an exposure to missiological principles is helpful, but not required. The ideal candidate will have:
- Training: People with formal or informal training/experience in teaching English
- Understanding of Culture and Worldview: Ability to be patient and display cultural awareness and sensitivity
- Christian Maturity: Evidence Christ-like character and leadership competency; a humble spirit and a listening heart are essential; maintaining spiritual disciplines as they work with people resistant to the gospel
- Evangelistic Outreach: The desire to participate in implementation of creative church-planting and multiplication strategies
- A Collaborative Style: A team player with good interpersonal, listening, and communication skills, as well as the ability to work cooperatively on a team and within a local network
This role requires:
- Organization: Planning and organizing lessons that meet the team criteria and the needs of the learners
- Dedication: Provision of instruction that is consistent, coordinated, and engaging
- Creativity: Using a variety of teaching techniques and strategies to help learners develop their language skills in a supportive and positive learning environment
- Communication: Evaluating and assessing learners’ progress and providing feedback
- Evangelism and Discipleship: Building genuine friendships that welcome people through dynamic spiritual conversations, sharing the truths of scripture, and discipling believers into an intentional, growing relationship with Christ
- Church Planting and Expansion: Participate in a holistic, church-planting team that desires to plant reproducing house churches in the local community
Professional in Mission-Central Asia
Professional in Mission or Marketplace Workers integrate themselves into the daily lives of Central Asians through working in the marketplace. Pursuing work in a professional capacity is an effective avenue for life-on-life spiritual impact as genuine, trusting relationships are established with coworkers.
This role will make disciples among unreached people groups while using their professional skills and experience in a cross-cultural, business context. Being a ‘Professional’ means living out your faith through your everyday work, with a desire to see Kingdom impact in all your relationships.
The Professional in Mission will use their skills, education, experience, and spiritual gifts to create ministry opportunities while serving in the marketplace in Central Asia. Formal Bible training and exposure to missiological principles is helpful, but not required. The ideal candidate will have:
- A mature, humble walk with the Lord, continually seeking to grow in godliness and to abide in Christ
- Experience in evangelism and discipleship so that as workplace relationships are formed, their new friends will hear the Good News, and may be discipled and equipped to share the gospel and disciple others
- The necessary skills, experience, and education required and determined by the Central Asian employer
The key to success in this role is the ability to build trusting relationships with coworkers. This will require a strong marketplace testimony, consistent communication, and a listening heart. Other responsibilities include:
- Evangelism and Discipleship: Ability to engage contacts through dynamic, spiritual conversations, sharing the truths of scripture, and discipling others into an intentional, growing relationship with Christ
- Church planting: Participate in the holistic church-planting team activities, sharing in the work and desire to plant reproducing house churches in the local community
Children’s Ministry-Cameroon
The purpose of this position is to create biblical literacy among Kwakum children who have never heard the truth about Jesus Christ.
This role will teach Kwakum children biblical truths. Those in this position will engage with the Kwakum in their native language and will learn about their culture. In this community, teaching children is mostly informal. This position will also help church leaders and parents understand and fulfill their biblical responsibility to teach their children God’s Word.
World Team has a zero-tolerance Child Safety Policy and is a participating member of the Child Safety Protection Network.
The ideal candidate will desire to support the training and development of the next generation of Kwakum believers. This role will require:
- Love for Children: A desire to love and invest in the lives of Kwakum children
- Classroom Management Skills: In Kwakum villages, gatherings for children may include one hundred participants of different ages. This role will be able to organize large groups of children while maintaining a positive and engaging environment
- Christian Maturity: Evidence Christ-like character and leadership competency; a humble, loving spirit and a listening heart are essential
- Evangelism and Discipleship: Experience with evangelism and sharing the gospel with children
- Education Experience: Training and experience in education with a willingness to use new and creative techniques to reach children in the Kwakum context
- Excellent Communication Skills: Ability to clearly communicate biblical truth
- Help local Kwakum church leaders and parents understand and practice their God-given responsibility to teach their children the Word of God
- Train Kwakum church workers to conduct Sunday School lessons
- Train Kwakum parents to engage with their children in family worship
- Develop a biblical children’s curriculum in the Kwakum language to facilitate their engagement with the gospel
- Meet regularly with groups of children for evangelism and discipleship
- Equip mature Kwakum adult believers to engage, evangelize, and disciple Kwakum children