Q: I am interested in mercy ministries. What would be a job description for a missionary who serves in relief and development?

Here is a sample position description for a first-term missionary with
Mission: Moving Mountains.

Job Title:
Language/ Culture Learner

Purpose:
To become familiar enough with the language and culture of the target people group to appropriately carry out the development/ discipleship process in selected communities.

Accountability:
To: Team Leader
With: Fellow team members

Team Skills:
Medical, Agricultural, Engineering, Business, Theology, Social Sciences

Qualifications:
BA or BS in professional discipline (advanced degrees depending on discipline)
Mature faith in Jesus
Experience in Discipleship relationships
Team Player
Teachability
Passion for the poor, lost, and unreached peoples

Summary:
Main task is to adapt to the new culture, learn the local language and culture with the goal of understanding ways your specialty skill and discipleship may empower people in this cultural context.

Review of Job Description:
Bi-annually with team leader

Duties:
1. Actively pursue a program of ongoing spiritual growth.
• Personal Quiet time
• Corporate Worship with team or local church
• Accountability group

2. Establish a healthy, nurturing home environment.
• Family time
• Home
• Spouse Time
• Individual Parent-Child time
• Adoption of family (for singles), Adoption of a single (for families)
• Hospitality
• Personal Space
• Leisure time
• Communication with supporters/family

3. Plan and implement a language acquisition / culture learning/adaptation program for target people group.
• Methodology (academic time, learner time, structured/unstructured time)
• Time Commitment
• Alone/Group time
• Set language level goals
• Immersion/non immersion justification
• Research on specialty skill
• Community relationships
• Methodology
• Anthropology
• Culture stress
• Immersion/non-immersion
• Participation in community events (weddings, funerals, etc)

4. Participate fully as a team member in creating a healthy team environment
• Team meetings
• Rules of conduct (communication, conflict resolution, etc.)
• Worship/prayer
• Boundaries
• Recreation

5. Plan and implement activities for understanding regional applications of your specialty
• Inter-team visits
• Visit M:MM Uganda
• Visit non-M:MM projects
• Discussion with local government and other NGO’s
• Training Courses (Ewert tapes, TOT’s, TOF’s, MAP)
• Reading

The following is a job description for a water development worker in Ethiopia with SIM:

The following will be tailored to skills/interest of the individual:
1. Help with visitation and Bible teaching in the local villages at least one day per week.
2. Assisting water supply engineer with a broad range of repair, construction, and engineering preliminary studies for small storage tanks, capped springs and hand dug wells.

This is just an example. For more specific requests please e-mail me at ack@flash.net

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