Opportunities
Spain – Business as Mission
The Business position will explore Business as Mission (BAM): projects to serve as part of church planting teams in Spain.
The BAM worker will utilize their business experience and acumen to support the work of a holistic church planting team in Spain.
The ideal candidate will be trained in international business and have some business experience. The choice of business opportunity would be dependent upon skills, interests, or experience and would have to support the identified needs of the host society.
The BAM worker must have a good understanding of how to conduct business, with a focus on financial responsibility and a firm grasp of the concepts of Business as a Mission (BAM). They would also need to be people and relationship oriented. This position would require at least a five-year commitment.
The BAM worker will plan, implement, and grow the chosen business. This includes:
- Establishing a viable business plan
- Gathering investment capital for the business and its expansion
- Managing a multifaceted marketing emphasis
- Providing a work contract or letter of invitation for potential colleagues as needed
- Training staff – developing positive, gospel relationships with them.
- Developing company policies and protocols
- Establishing a healthy customer base
- Incorporating God-honoring principles throughout the business
Spain – Administrative Support
The Administrative Support position is a multifaceted role. The primary function is to support the church planting team, ensuring that it can operate effectively, thereby allowing other team members to focus on their areas of gifting and calling.
As part of a holistic church planting team, this position will support missionaries using skills in organizing, planning, fiscal management, and executing other administrative and logistical functions. In addition, the Administrative Support worker will spearhead the residency process and function as a liaison between the Federation of Evangelical Religious Entities in Spain and the field members. The ability to multitask and manage time well is essential.
This position allows participation in other ministry areas of interest on the church planting team.
Strong organizational, administrative, and people skills are essential. The Administrative Support role must have the capacity to work effectively with a wide variety of workers and organizations. Cross-cultural experience is beneficial, along with a passion for reaching the unreached.
Ideal candidate competencies include:
- Mature Christian: Displays Christ-like character that demonstrates the gospel with a humble spirit and a listening heart
- Excellent organizational skills with the ability to multitask and manage multiple processes, including administrative tasks, planning, and the tracking and reporting of data and information in a timely fashion
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- 3-5 years’ experience or training in an administrative role
- Will need to learn Spanish to a proficient level
The Administrative Support worker is responsible for:
- Creating and maintaining various records and reports, with the ability to meet deadlines.
- Helping to maintain the team budget and implement project plans. This would involve taking on the role of treasurer of World Team Spain.
- Utilizing strong administrative skills, including fiscal management, planning, organizing, scheduling, and coordination of meetings and events.
- Performing general clerical duties as assigned.
Moldova – Worship/Youth Director
International Christian Fellowship (ICF) is an international church in Chisinau, Moldova, reaching out to foreign workers and students in the capital. People from North America, Europe, India, Central Asia, and the Middle East attend ICF. There is a need for a Worship Director and University Minister to serve in ministry to students.
The Worship Director will lead worship during church services and manage multiple worship teams. The University Ministry role will engage and disciple university students from India and Central Asia.
The ideal candidate must have experience participating in or leading a worship team, be in good standing with their home church, and have a consistent history of working collaboratively with others in ministry. The position requires a desire and vision to see others grow in faith and ministry service and to identify those who are ready to serve.
- Able to coordinate Sunday worship
- To meet with students on a flexible schedule
- To participate in church activities throughout the week
- Meet regularly with the church Leadership team
Moldova – Church Planting Facilitator
The Church Planting Facilitator will partner with and develop church planters and local Moldovan church leaders. They will encourage, equip, and mentor them as they work together to plant healthy, self-sustaining, multiplying churches that are centered on the gospel in unreached areas.
There are many small or stagnant churches in Moldova and numerous villages with no evangelical witness. The Church Planting Facilitator will use their skills, gifts, and experience to see local churches multiply throughout the region.
The ideal candidate will have a background in church ministry leadership, pastoring, and/or church planting, as well as a history of making disciples. This role will have:
- Training and Experience: A Biblical Studies BA or equivalent experience, including church ministry leadership, pastoring, and/or church planting
- Evangelism and Discipleship experience
- A solid commitment to the spiritual disciplines (i.e., Bible reading, prayer, etc.)
- Proficiency in Romanian or Russian or a local language
- Assist local pastors in developing outreach opportunities in their region
- Train local pastors and leaders to disciple new believers toward Christian maturity
- Identify and equip discipled leaders to evangelize their own people, training them to disciple new believers in a life-on-life manner
- Develop current and future church leaders with Biblical and practical leadership skills
Moldova – Business Development
The position of Business Developer is to assist those in ministry to create alternative sources of revenue. This assistance to local pastors and church planters enables them to obtain a steady income so they can spend more time focusing on ministry. The locations would include Moldova and Central Asia.
This role will teach pastors and church planters how to create and implement business plans, as well as accounting, marketing, and how to secure funding. The Business Developer focus could include tech start-ups, agricultural endeavors, or other areas of expertise. To appropriately serve in this position, they must learn about and understand the marketplace and have creative business ideas.
The ideal candidate will have extensive knowledge and experience in the business industry and/or an advanced degree in this area. They should have:
- Education/Experience: business understanding and extensive experience in running a successful business are most beneficial.
- Evaluate business plans
- Assist in obtaining funding for the projects
- Conduct regular reviews
- Onsight visits
South Asia – International School Teachers
International School Teachers and staff are responsible for educating students from South Asia, as well as children from all over the region.
Make a valuable investment in the lives of students while enjoying the thrill of living and working in another culture! World Team has a zero-tolerance Child Safety Policy and is a participating member of the Child Safety Protection Network.
The ideal candidate has:
- A Baccalaureate degree in a field related to teaching or in the specific area of expertise for non-teaching positions or equivalent experience
- Two (2) years’ experience in teaching or in the specific area of expertise for non-teaching positions
- Willingness to commit to a minimum of two school years
The teacher will collaborate with a team of like-minded educators to provide high-quality education for students. They will:
- Teach classes in various subjects based on need
- Live among the unreached people group, learning their language and culture
- Work with a holistic, long-term church-planting team to create and maintain gospel-driven relationships with local individuals outside the school
South Asia – Church Planter
The Church-Planter role will engage unreached people groups in order to evangelize, disciple, and equip them to live in community, to follow and share Christ with others, and to spread the gospel.
- The church planter will work to see a healthy local church established among a Muslim people group.
- They will focus on building relationships, sharing the Good News, and investing in those they identify as faithful to do the same.
The ideal candidate will have a mature walk with the Lord where they continually seek to grow in godliness and to abide in Christ. They will also have:
- A passion for reaching the lost is vital to this role
- Formal Bible training is preferred but not required
- Experience in evangelism and discipleship among Muslims is preferred
- A desire to serve long-term as much of the work is still at the evangelism stage
- The ideal candidate will keep their efforts and various relationships before the Father in prayer
The church planter will work on a team to provide mutual encouragement and accountability. They will engage in:
- Language and Culture: Live among an unreached people group, learn about their culture, and become proficient in language before beginning formal ministry
- Relationship Building: Establish genuine relationships in the community
- Evangelism: Faithfully and consistently share the gospel in word and deed in the community
- Discipleship: Disciple believers into a mature and healthy relationship with Christ through teaching the Bible in formal and informal settings
- Training: Train, develop, and release disciples to plant the church
- Developing Leaders: Identify and equip leaders for the church and for planting churches in neighboring communities, training them to disciple new believers in a life-on-life manner
- Spiritual Progress: Track the spiritual progress of the community
- Networking: Develop and expand a network of local churches and organizations to attract, train, and mobilize volunteers for ministry
South Asia – TESOL Instructors
The English Teacher 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 the 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 networ
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
South Asia – Community Development
Use your skills and experience in community development to make a positive impact on the spiritual and economic life of individuals and communities in South Asia. Our approach to church planting is holistic, addressing the expressed needs of the people we serve while sharing Christ and developing contextually appropriate solutions.
Beginning as a student and a listener who is able to discern and develop contextually appropriate solutions, the Community Development professional will help communities discover ways to develop options and/or networks to sustain themselves and their daily needs.
- Professional Training: a degree/training in entrepreneurship and/or community development would be helpful
- 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 the implementation of creative church-planting and multiplication strategies
- 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
- Proficiency: Become adept in the local language and learn the local culture
- Analyze: Study the economic system in which the people live and help determine direction for community development projects
- Brainstorm: Develop ideas for economic or community stimulation with local people
- Organization: Planning and organizing lessons that meet the team criteria and the needs of the learners
- Creativity: Using a variety of techniques and strategies to help communities address felt needs
- 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
South Asia – Training and Education
Are you interested in forming discipleship relationships through educational interactions? We are looking for teachers/professionals who understand how people learn in different cultures. Help individuals create better lives for themselves, their families, and their communities through education.
Opportunities exist in the areas of literacy, computers, and TESOL. Come join our holistic church planting team and see God transform lives among Muslims in South Asia.
The role includes developing tools to help meet the educational needs of the people you serve. Workers will need to be flexible and responsive to the felt needs within the community and be learners themselves, willing to research new training and educational opportunities.
As part of a holistic church planting team, the Leadership Developer will live among and learn the language and culture of an unreached people group in South Asia. They will engage and encourage national leaders, sharing personal successes and failures as they equip them to evangelize and disciple believers and to spread the gospel.
Ideal candidates for this position have a missionary mindset, can adopt new ideas, are willing to take risks, and will use critical thinking skills to evaluate missiological and innovative strategies. They will have:
- Formal Biblical Studies or equivalent experience
- Three to five years of church/ministry leadership experience (preferred)
- Experience with evangelism and discipleship
- A solid commitment to the spiritual disciplines (i.e., Bible reading, prayer, etc.)
- Willingness to learn how to speak and communicate fluently in the local language
The Training and Education worker will collaborate with a team to provide mutual encouragement and accountability. They will:
- Establish and maintain positive, local relationships.
- Discover the educational or training opportunities that will best serve the community. Create an informed plan and implement the strategy with the goal of assisting the church planting process.
- Share the gospel in culturally contextualized ways.
- Make disciples that make disciples.
- Network and collaborate with other trainers and educators in the community to discover better ways to serve the community