Opportunities
Children and Youth Ministry-Cameroon
The purpose of this role is to teach Baka children and youth biblical truths through storytelling, songs, games, and other creative techniques. In addition, they will train Baka adults to engage and disciple children and youth.
The ideal candidate for this position will have education experience and a desire to impact the lives of Baka children, youth, and young adults as they teach them truths about God. Those in this position will engage with the Baka in their native language and will learn about their culture. In this community, teaching children is mostly informal, and patience and compassion are necessary, as many of the children come from difficult home situations.
World Team has a zero-tolerance Child Safety Policy and is a participating member of the Child Safety Protection Network.
This position will require:
- Love for Children: A desire to love and invest in the lives of Baka children, youth, and young adults
- 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 and youth
- Education Experience: Training and experience in education with a willingness to use new and creative techniques to reach children and youth in the Baka context
- Communication Skills: Ability to clearly communicate biblical truth
- Develop curriculum in the Baka language geared toward Baka children and youth to facilitate their engagement with the gospel
- Meet regularly with groups of children, youth, and young adults for evangelism and discipleship
- Engage and equip mature Baka adult believers to evangelize and disciple the children and youth
MK Homeschool Ministry-Cameroon
The MK Homeschool provider will free up linguists, medical professionals, Bible translators and administrators by providing their children with a quality homeschool education.
This position will live with a missionary family that serves on a Cameroon team as they participate in church planting efforts among the Baka people. Missionary families value gifted and creative homeschool teachers as they help meet their children’s educational needs and significantly impact their lives.
World Team has a zero-tolerance Child Safety Policy and is a participating member of the Child Safety Protection Network.
- A love for children and a heart to serve a missionary family by homeschooling their children
- Strong ability to supervise and maintain a positive, nurturing, and organized learning environment
- A degree in teaching is not required
- Using the curriculum provided, prepare age and grade-appropriate lessons for daily engagement with missionary children, providing education and supervision while their parents are working
- Maintain accurate records of progress and grades throughout the year
Oral Bible Storying-Cameroon
In order to fulfill our mission to spread the gospel, we find that many people groups are oral-based societies and are thus more able to understand and respond to a spoken presentation of the Bible in their heart language. Stories are easy for nationals to learn and share orally and often incorporate drama, songs, and visual arts.
This role will join a Kwakum church planting team utilizing Oral Bible Storying in Cameroon. You will share the gospel and help people learn to study and grow in faith as they hear the Scripture and learn biblical truths.
- Training in Oral Bible Storying
- Artistic talent such as music or dance would be helpful
- Strong verbal communication skills
- Develop proficiency in the local language and learn the cultural norms
- Explore Kwakum storying techniques before beginning Oral Bible Storying
- Invite local people to learn Oral Bible Storying
- Teach Kwakum people Oral Bible Storying; rehearse the stories with them, then accompany them as they go to new locations, helping them to retell the stories accurately. Continue to train and mentor local people in this way so they can go out on their own
Literacy-Cameroon
In order to give the Baka and Kwakum people greater access to the Scriptures and to enlist their participation in translating the Bible into their respective tongues, Literacy Workers will teach them to read and write in their own language. This will further allow these people groups to read and study the Scriptures for themselves.
Literacy Workers will live among the Baka or Kwakum people, serving as members of a church planting team while learning the indigenous language and culture. This role will teach reading and writing to all age groups in their respective native language.
- Gifted in management
- Educated in promoting mother-tongue literacy
- Teaching experience preferred but not required
- A heart for the unreached poor and underserved
- Become proficient in the local language and learn about the local culture
- Create literacy materials with local people in their native language
- Teach literacy classes
- Train literacy teachers
- Network with local leaders to promote literacy in village settings and public schools
Biblical Leadership Development-Cameroon
Live in community and disciple new believers among the Kwakum while encouraging and training maturing believers.
Equipping and empowering national leaders is an essential part of establishing churches that will grow and multiply. Ideal missionary candidates will be authentic, humble servant-leaders who can teach developing leaders to follow Christ in servant-leadership.
Sports Evangelism and Discipleship-Cameroon
This position will utilize sports and fitness activities as catalysts to engage Baka people of all ages for evangelism and discipleship. Focusing on physical well-being will open doors to develop relationships and provide avenues to share and spread the gospel within the village and to the surrounding communities.
This role will have access to a well-equipped outdoor gym in the center of a Baka village to attract and reach the community with evangelism and discipleship in mind. You will lead Bible studies, pray with people, and organize sports-related outreach to other Baka villages.
- Thorough knowledge of the Bible
- Evangelism and discipleship experience
- Ability to organize and conduct fitness and sports events
- Learn the local language and culture
- Conduct fitness and sports events for the community
- Use fitness and sports as a way to teach biblical truths to the community
- Disciple believers to use fitness and sports as a means of evangelism
Women’s Ministry-Cameroon
This role will work with Fulbe women in Cameroon to encourage and disciple believers.
The believing Fulbe women are hungry for spiritual encouragement and receptive to teaching, discipleship, counseling, and mentoring. This position requires flexibility as well as relational and team-oriented women to develop a discipleship ministry that can be multiplied.
The ideal candidate will be an experienced and authentic servant leader who can disciple believers. They will possess:
- Christian Maturity: Evidence Christ-like character and leadership competency; a humble spirit and a listening heart are essential
- Evangelism and Discipleship Experience: Effectively share the gospel and disciple believers
- Leadership Ability: Strong organizational skills
- Learn the local language
- Disciple women in a life-on-life context
- Help women honor the Lord in their roles as wives and mothers
- Teach older women to disciple the younger women
Suggest a Ministry-Cameroon
Do you have a specific skill set and a passion for serving among unreached people groups? Do you have a hard time seeing how your skills and passions can work together in cross-cultural missions?
Perhaps the Cameroon field could be blessed by your gifts and create a job description that is customized for you. Contact a mobilizer today to inquire about how your skill set could be used within one of our church planting teams.
Church Planting-Cameroon
Church Planters in Cameron will serve, evangelize, and disciple an unreached people group, including the Baka, Fulbe, Kwakum, Pol, or Nizaa. This role’s mission is to disciple new believers toward Christian maturity, faithfully teaching the Bible in their native language. In the process, the Church Planter will identify and equip leaders from among the discipled believers and will assist them as they lead their own people in churches they establish within their individual communities.
The Church Planter will work to create and maintain gospel-driven relationships with the people they serve, living among them and learning their language and culture. This will lead to opportunities to evangelize, disciple new believers, and train church leaders. The majority of the Baka, Fulbe, Kwakum, Pol, and Nizaa are unreached people groups. Ministry among these groups will require perseverance and commitment.
This position requires a vibrant and dedicated spiritual life characterized by consistent practice of spiritual disciplines. The Church Planter will need to have a solid understanding of the Scriptures and be able to teach and clearly communicate how the Old Testament points to the person and work of Jesus Christ. Patience and dedication are necessary, as the Church Planter must learn to communicate with the assigned unreached people group faithfully and accurately in their native language.
The ideal candidate will have:
- A Biblical Studies BA or equivalent experience
- Experience with evangelism and discipleship
- Willingness to commit at least 10 years to the project
- A solid commitment to the spiritual disciplines (i.e., Bible reading, prayer, etc.)
- Proficiency in the assigned unreached people group’s language
The Church Planter will collaborate with a team, preparing indigenous servant leaders to establish and lead healthy, self-sustaining churches. They will:
- Live among the unreached people group, learning their language and culture before beginning formal ministry
- Teach the Bible in formal and informal settings
- Evangelize and disciple the people
- Identify and equip native leaders to evangelize their people
- Train indigenous church leaders to disciple believers in a life-on-life manner
- Develop current and future church leaders with biblical and practical leadership skills
- Perform other field or agency duties as assigned
Micro-Finance & Community Development-Cameroon
The Micro-Finance Professional and/or Community Developer will join a holistic church planting team among the Fulbe of Cameroon to address the expressed needs of the people. Converts to Christianity lose all family monetary support and must learn how to support themselves and their churches in new ways. This role will use their expertise and experience to make a positive impact in the spiritual and economic lives of individuals and communities in the Adamawa Region.
Beginning as a student and a listener who is able to discern and develop contextually appropriate solutions, the Micro-Finance / Community Development professional will help believers who have lost their financial support develop or create options and/or networks to sustain themselves and their churches.
- Training in entrepreneurship and/or community development
- A solid commitment to the spiritual disciplines (i.e., Bible reading, prayer, etc.)
- Become proficient in the local language and learn about the local culture
- Analyze the economic system in which the people live
- Brainstorm ideas for economic stimulation with the people
- Launch projects designed to raise monetary support for individuals and communities
- Introduce biblical truths to counter fatalistic beliefs