Opportunities
The INN: South Florida
The Muslim population in South Florida is estimated between 90,000 – 110,000 and is growing. There are more than forty Islamic Centers and Schools in the region. God has given us a vision to share the Gospel and plant churches among this unreached Muslim population in South Florida.
As we reach Arabic speaking people locally, our prayer is that the gospel will spread to the 21 Arabic speaking countries in the world and throughout the nearly 3.5 million Arab Americans in the US, representing a total of approximately 422 million speakers. Arabic is the fifth most spoken language globally.
Our focus is on serving and sharing the gospel with Arabic-speaking Muslims in South Florida, as well as discipleship and church planting. We desire to meet the spiritual hunger found in Arab peoples across both geographical and religious boundaries. We accomplish this planting churches, teaching the bible, spreading the good news of Jesus, personally encouraging and discipling Arabs from various backgrounds and holding evangelical events throughout the year.
Part of our plan is to reach out to and equip local churches with relevant information through seminars that educate them about immigrants, culture, religion, and worldview. Pulling from our Eastern background, we have developed materials that will help to equip churches to minister to the refugee families in their own backyard.
The INN in South Florida serves Arabic speakers from various countries, most are from what is considered unreached and/or unengaged people groups. Both Arabic and English-speaking teammates are welcome!
- Mature Christian: People who love God, love people, and can maintain spiritual disciplines as they work with people resistant to the gospel
- Evangelism and Discipleship: Desire to share the gospel and disciple people from different world views, religions, and backgrounds
- Church Planting and Multiplication: Desire to participate in implementing creative church planting and multiplication strategies
- Team Player: Good interpersonal, listening, and communication skills, as well as the ability to work collaboratively on a team and within a local network
- Learner: A willingness to be part of a learning community dedicated to growing their skills, gifts, and abilities in church planting and multiplication while serving in a diaspora community
- Outreach: Use your skills in ESL, teaching, youth ministry, and holistic ministry to help meet felt needs and build genuine relationships with our friends by sharing the love of Christ in word and deed
- Evangelism and Discipleship: Journey with your contacts through dynamic spiritual conversations, sharing the truths of scripture, and discipling them into an intentional, growing relationship with Christ
- Church planting: Be part of a team that desires to plant reproducing house churches in the local diaspora community
- Community Service: Serve local diaspora along with the team and local network through meeting felt needs and building genuine relationships
The INN: Metro Philadelphia
The INN (International Neighborhood Network) in Metro Philadelphia region has the 5th largest Muslim population of all major American cities, the highest concentration of Hindu’s in the US (New Jersey), and tens of thousands of Arabic speakers. The immigrant population in Philadelphia County has increased 68% since 2000 and is one of the main factors in the city’s population growth over the last 20 years.
Our goal is to minister to Muslim, Hindu, and Arabic speaking diaspora in the Metro Phila. region. Come join this multicultural team and use your skills, education, and spiritual gifts to participate in an exciting church planting team serving our new neighbors.
Are you interested in helping to establish disciple-making movements among unreached diaspora? We currently have team members serving in Philadelphia, Camden County, and Cherry Hill, NJ who are interested in expanding throughout the Metro Philadelphia region!
Ministry focuses include resettlement assistance, ESL, cricket, a church plant, bible studies, media, and more!
Do you long to see God’s kingdom take root in the hearts of the nations living in the Philadelphia Metro area? Join us as we seek to imitate Christ through our loving presence, service, and biblical community. Our desire is to be the unmistakable aroma of Christ in our community.
Join The INN and use your skills, education, and spiritual gifts to serve the nations among us! Formal Bible training and an exposure to missiological principles is helpful, but not required.
- Mature Christian: People who love God, love people, and can maintain spiritual disciplines as they work with people resistant to the gospel
- Evangelism and Discipleship: Desire to share the gospel and disciple people from different world views, religions, and backgrounds
- Church Planting and Multiplication: Desire to participate in implementing creative church planting and multiplication strategies
- Team Player: Good interpersonal, listening, and communication skills, as well as the ability to work collaboratively on a team and within a local network
- Learner: A willingness to be part of a learning community dedicated to growing their skills, gifts, and abilities in church planting and multiplication while serving in a diaspora community
- Outreach: Use your skills in ESL, the arts, literacy, teaching, youth ministry, building genuine friendships, and holistic ministry skills to help our friends adapt to life in the US by sharing the love of Christ through word and deed
- Evangelism and Discipleship: Journey with your contacts through dynamic spiritual conversations, sharing the truths of scripture, and discipling them into an intentional, growing relationship with Christ
- Church planting: Be part of a team that desires to plant reproducing house churches in the local diaspora community
- Community Service: Serve local diaspora along with the team and local network through meeting felt needs and building genuine relationships
NT Exegete/Translation Advisor-Cameroon
The NT Exegete/Translation Advisor will join the Kwakum team as they translate the Bible into the Kwakum language. The Kwakum writing system has been developed and is in use, and there are trained national translators in place, as well.
The NT Exegete/Translation Advisor will spearhead the translation of the NT, supporting the simultaneous translation of the Old and New Testaments. Proficiency in Greek is required.
- MDiv in Bible Exegesis or MA in Bible Translation is preferred
- Training in Linguistics/Translation from one of SIL’s schools
- Robust knowledge of Greek is required
- Develop proficiency in the local language and learn about the culture
- Exegete passages and prepare the texts for local translators
- Help local translators determine which key words to use
- Produce multiple drafts and then send the final one to the testing team
- Disciple the local translators throughout the process
Missions Advocate – Campus
Are you passionate about reaching the unreached? Are you searching for opportunities to share your passion for global missions with others to help advance the Great Commission? If so, you may want to become a Missions Advocate for World Team.
Missions Advocate – Church
Are you passionate about reaching the unreached? Are you searching for opportunities to share your passion for global missions with others to help advance the Great Commission? If so, you may want to become a Missions Advocate for World Team.
Church Planting-Middle East
Are you interested in serving where there is no church? Has God instilled a passion in you to share the gospel and disciple new believers, to see churches planted and multiplied? We are expanding our ministry into neighboring cities and countries and are looking for people God has led to Muslim ministry.
Our ultimate goal is to bring God glory through connecting with people and discipling them into a life-changing relationship with Jesus Christ.
The church planter will work to see a healthy church established among Muslim peoples. They will focus on meeting felt needs that lead to building genuine relationships and sharing the gospel in word and deed.
Believers will be discipled with the goal of developing and releasing leaders who are equipped to lead the local church. All of this to the glory of God and the planting of the church.
Learning the language and culture is a vital part of this ministry. We are looking for mature Christians with strong interpersonal skills.
Be part of a team that enjoys sharing their faith and testifying of God’s goodness in their everyday lives. Help others grow through one-on-one interactions or in small group settings.
A passion for reaching the lost is vital to this role. Cross-cultural experience is beneficial. Ideal Church Planter competencies include:
- Mature Christian: Evidence Christ-like character and leadership competency. A humble spirit and a listening heart are essential
- Theological Training: Formal training is beneficial but not required
- Evangelism and Discipleship: 12 months of experience in sharing the gospel with a Muslim is preferred, along with past experience in discipleship
- Training and Development: Strong facilitation skills to provide training for new believers and church leaders
- Networking and Communication: Expand the local church network through vision casting, effective verbal and written communication, relationship building, training, and providing opportunities for others to serve.
Church Planters will live and serve in proximity to the Muslim community. The church planter will work on a team to provide mutual encouragement and accountability. They will:
- Outreach: Utilization of church planting and multiplication strategies to impact the Muslim community; training and leading disciples and local volunteers to expand outreach efforts
- Spiritual Progress: Track the spiritual progress of the community
- Relationship Building: Establish genuine local relationships with Muslims in the community
- Evangelism: Faithfully and consistently share the gospel in word and deed
- Training: Train, develop, and release disciples to plant the church
- Developing Leaders: The goal is to develop leaders for the church or leaders who are equipped to be sent to plant churches in neighboring communities
- Networking: Develop and expand a network of local churches and organizations to attract, train, and mobilize volunteers for ministry
Are you interested in serving where there is no church? Has God instilled a passion in you to share the gospel and disciple new believers, to see churches planted and multiplied? We are expanding our ministry into neighboring cities and are looking for people God has led to Muslim ministry.
Learning the language and culture is a vital part of this ministry. We are looking for mature Christians with strong interpersonal skills. Come be part of a team that enjoys sharing their faith and testifying of God’s goodness in their everyday lives. Help others grow through one-on-one interactions or in small group settings.
Cross-Cultural Internships
If you are interested in long-term cross-cultural ministry, but first want to explore your fit by serving and learning on a short-term internship, then let us invite you to go with World Team. Through this internship, you will further your understanding of God’s mission and how He uses the gifts, abilities, and passions that He places within each of us to build His Church among the unreached.” Consider how you could take your current education and gain concentrated, hands-on experience serving with a team of church planters! As an intern, you will join a team of disciple-makers working among an unreached people group. You will participate in cross-cultural life and ministry alongside World Team missionaries ready to mentor and help you process what you are experiencing.
- Location Options: Cambodia, Cameroon, France, Philippines, Spain, United States
- Types of Internships: Church Planting, Intercultural Studies, Teaching English, Sports Ministry, Diaspora Ministry, University Students, Children’s Ministry, Ethnomusicology, Community Development
- Length: 2 weeks – 4 months
The INN: Bringing Hope to Savannah
The INN Savannah exists to plant reproducing churches among the diaspora in Savannah by engaging whole families through personal relationship. Workers will address two significant challenges to fulfilling WT’s purpose of …establishing reproducing churches focusing on the unreached peoples of the world.
- Working toward a team goal of church planting and multiplication among unreached diaspora
- Discovering how to effectively develop and use their skills, gifts, and abilities to establish relationships in the community
The INN Savannah is engaging people from over 16 unreached people groups providentially brought by God to our beautiful city. Our team desires to plant churches through relationships built during English lessons, home visits, sports outreach, and living life with our new neighbors.
Workers should have a passion to reach unreached Muslim peoples. Formal Bible training and an exposure to missiological principles is helpful, but not required.
- Mature Christian: People who love God, love people, and can maintain spiritual disciplines as they work with people resistant to the gospel
- Evangelism and Discipleship: Desire to share the gospel and disciple people from different world views, religions, and backgrounds
- Church Planting and Multiplication: Desire to participate in implementing creative church planting and multiplication strategies
- Church Planting and Multiplication: Desire to participate in implementing creative church planting and multiplication strategies
- Team Player: Good interpersonal, listening, and communication skills, as well as the ability to work collaboratively on a team and within a local network
- Learner: A willingness to be part of a learning community dedicated to growing their skills, gifts, and abilities in church planting and multiplication while serving in a diaspora community
- Outreach: Use your skills in ESL, literacy, teaching, youth ministry, and holistic ministry to help our friends adapt to life in the US. Come and share the love of Christ in word and deed as you build genuine relationships with our new neighbors!
- Evangelism and Discipleship: Journey with your contacts through dynamic spiritual conversations, sharing the truths of scripture, and discipling them into an intentional, growing relationship with Christ
- Church planting: Be part of a team that desires to plant reproducing house churches in the local diaspora community
- Community Service: Serve local diaspora along with the team and local network through meeting felt needs and building genuine relationships
The INN: International Neighborhood Network
The International Neighborhood Network (The INN) worker desires that the hope of Jesus will transform communities among all peoples, starting with the nations in our backyard. Our joy is to create and implement new approaches to love and serve our neighbors through media, ESL classes, cross-cultural coaching, tutoring, job placement, parenting, and so much more.
We use diverse ministry methods based on the felt needs of the community and holistic, incarnational approaches that increase trust and allow us to share our faith effectively. Our desire is that everything we do would lead to multiplying disciples of Jesus Christ!
Fulfilling the Great Commission has traditionally meant living in another country and learning a new language and culture to develop relationships for sharing the gospel. Today the nations are coming to our doorstep.
There are countless opportunities for workers in the US to love and serve our new neighbors from many unreached people groups around the world. What is needed are open eyes, a servant heart, and the courage to engage with people who at first seem very different.
Explore your fit with The INN (International Neighborhood Network) to discover how you can use your skills, gifts, and abilities to serve those coming to the US who have yet to hear the good news of Jesus.
Workers are needed in every INN site –South Florida, Savannah, Houston, Metro Philadelphia, Lancaster, PA, Central PA, Phoenix, and Columbus, OH.
Are you passionate about sharing your love for Jesus and using your spiritual gifts as part of a team serving unreached people groups?
We are looking for workers with strong interpersonal skills and a desire to share Christ in response to the work of grace in their own life. Imagine serving among refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants who have never had a conversation with a Christian.
Join The INN (International Neighborhood Network) and use your skills, education, and spiritual gifts to create ministry opportunities to serve the nations among us! Formal Bible training and an exposure to missiological principles is helpful, but not required.
- Mature Christian: People who love God, love people, and can maintain spiritual disciplines as they work with people resistant to the gospel
- Evangelism and Discipleship: Desire to share the gospel and disciple people from different world views, religions, and backgrounds
- Church Planting and Multiplication: Desire to participate in implementing creative church planting and multiplication strategies
- Team Player: Good interpersonal, listening, and communication skills, as well as the ability to work collaboratively on a team and within a local network
- Learner: A willingness to be part of a learning community dedicated to growing their skills, gifts, and abilities in church planting and multiplication while serving in a diaspora community
- Outreach: Use your skills in ESL, administration, literacy, teaching, youth ministry, social work, the arts, building genuine friendships, and holistic ministry to help our friends adapt to life in the US. Come and share the love of Christ in word and deed as you build relationships with our new neighbors!
- Evangelism and Discipleship: Journey with your contacts through dynamic spiritual conversations, sharing the truths of scripture, and discipling them into an intentional, growing relationship with Christ
- Church planting: Be part of a team that desires to plant reproducing house churches in the local diaspora community
- Community Service: Serve local diaspora along with the team and local network through meeting felt needs and building genuine relationships
The INN: Teaching English
The INN (The International Neighborhood Network) is proud to serve the international community through fun and effective English classes. As we help our friends and neighbors become more proficient in the English language, we are preparing them for U.S. citizenship, employment, and life in the US. We do this in response to God’s great love and sacrifice for us! It is a joy to share our life, time, skills, and love with those around us in practical ways.
Teaching English meets a significant felt need in the communities we serve. ESL classes serve as natural connectors between the team and the diaspora community. From our earliest contact within the community, we identify ourselves as followers of Jesus Christ. This lays a firm foundation and opens the door for ongoing, deeper conversations about the gospel.
Teaching English to non-native speakers of all ages is both challenging and rewarding. English teachers are needed at every INN site.
Join The INN and use your skills, education, and spiritual gifts to serve the nations among us! Formal Bible training and an exposure to missiological principles is helpful, but not required.
- TESL Training: Training or experience in teaching English
- Understanding of Culture and Worldview: Ability to be patient and display cultural awareness and sensitivity
- Mature Christian: People who love God, love people, and can maintain spiritual disciplines as they work with people resistant to the gospel
- Evangelism and Discipleship: Desire to share the gospel and disciple people from different world views, religions, and backgrounds
- Church Planting and Multiplication: Desire to participate in implementing creative church planting and multiplication strategies
- Team Player: Good interpersonal, listening, and communication skills, as well as the ability to work collaboratively on a team and within a local network
- Learner: A willingness to be part of a learning community dedicated to growing their skills, gifts, and abilities in church planting and multiplication while serving in a diaspora community
- Planning and organizing lessons that meet the team criteria and the needs of the learners
- Providing instruction that is consistent, coordinated, and engaging
- Using a variety of teaching techniques and strategies to help learners develop their language skills
- Evaluating and assessing learners’ progress and providing feedback
- Creating a supportive and positive learning environment
- Outreach: Use your skills to build genuine friendships that help our friends adapt to life in the US by sharing the love of Christ through word and deed
- Evangelism and Discipleship: Journey with your contacts through dynamic spiritual conversations, sharing the truths of scripture, and discipling them into an intentional, growing relationship with Christ
- Church planting: Be part of a team that desires to plant reproducing house churches in the local diaspora community
- Community Service: Serve local diaspora along with the team and local network through meeting felt needs and building genuine relationships