The INN: Team Leader

The Team Leader is essential to the ministry of teams strategically placed among unreached diaspora communities within the United States. This role will work to expand the vision of churches and individuals within their network, with the goal of planting multiplying churches. Team Leaders will be intricately involved with outreach, mobilization, supervision, team building, training, and networking.

Team Leaders will be engaged in the launching of new INN sites or alternatively, will step into the role of Leader for an existing team. They will address the significant challenges to fulfilling WT’s purpose of “establishing reproducing churches focusing on the unreached peoples of the world.”

The primary focus of this role is to oversee a team of workers and volunteers as they live among and serve the rapidly growing number of unreached diaspora peoples in the United States. The Team Leader mobilizes and equips new WT workers and trains volunteers for the ministry to effectively participate in church planting and multiplication (CPM), with the intent of maintaining and growing a local church network in the communities they serve.

To effectively oversee an INN site, Team Leaders need to have a collaborative leadership style. As they shape and develop the team and local network, they will discover and utilize the skills, gifts, talents, and abilities of those they lead, which will contribute to increased team effectiveness as they work together to plant multiplying churches in unreached diaspora communities. Cross-cultural experience is beneficial, along with a passion for reaching the lost.

Ideal Team Leader 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
• Mobilization: Ability to mobilize and train new workers  
• Administrative and Logistical Support: Ability to develop and coordinate ministry and training schedules, manage volunteer assignments, provide written reports, communicate with donors and with the network, manage team finances, etc.
• Team Building: Excellent interpersonal, listening, shepherding, coaching and assessment skills 
• Training and Development: Strong facilitation skills to provide training for the local team in conjunction with The INN Director 
• 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  
• 3- 5 years’ experience or training in a leadership role and in ministry

Team Leaders will live and serve at an assigned ministry site in proximity to an unreached diaspora people group. Duties will include:

• Administration: Provide operational and contingency planning, budgeting, coordination of ministry schedules, management of volunteers, and annual evaluations, etc.  
• Outreach: Utilization of CPM strategies to impact the assigned unreached diaspora community, training and leading the team and volunteers to expand outreach efforts, planting multiplying churches, and tracking the Spiritual progress of the community   
• Ministry:  Create church planting and multiplication strategies and manage the flow of day-to-day ministry  
• Networking: Develop and expand a network with local churches and organizations to attract, train, and mobilize workers for their ministry location and WT global ministries