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Category: Community Development

Here are all the opportunities on the site in the Community Development category.

Planting and Strengthening Rural Churches

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2 years plus

Help plant and nurture churches in the least-reached, rural areas of the Loja province.

Health Ministries

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Any duration considered

Partnering with fellow believers, we glorify God through compassionate health ministries, sharing the love of Christ through word and deed, and making disciples who do likewise.

Sports Friends Senegal

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Any duration considered

The Sports Friends staff train local church-based coaching teams with the goal that they will eventually become sustainable sports ministry programmes fully managed and funded by the church.

Local church involvement

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Any duration considered

We seek to be active members of local churches, supporting them by regular attendance, in prayer, and by helping with different teaching and discipling ministries as opportunities arise.

Healthcare ministries

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Any duration considered

Come and use your healthcare skills in this mainly Muslim context and see lives impacted as you offer compassionate, holistic care in Christ’s name.

Reaching West Africa

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2 years plus

Join our team as we build relationships among two unreached people groups in West Africa.

Moors for Christ

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2 years plus

We want to see all Moors glorifying the true and living God.

Discipling New Believers

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Any duration considered

We long to see a Christ-centred, contextualised church planted among an influential, but gospel-resistant people group in West Africa.

English Teaching Centre

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Any duration considered

We are looking for native English speakers to join our team in a large city, teaching English as an additional language to university students and others.

Christ-centred Education

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Any duration considered

To provide a safe environment in which people can improve their education with quality instruction. We desire to provide education to people who do not otherwise have access to it, whether due to expense, distance, safety, gender or location.

Alleviating Suffering and Fostering Development for Structural Change

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Any duration considered

We desire to address human needs by investing in long-term infrastructure development in order to facilitate the improvement of health, opportunities and safety for communities

San Ministry

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Any duration considered

This ministry involves working among rural San communities and other marginalised peoples.

Church Leadership Training

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Any duration considered

Pastors and other church leaders are receiving formal part-time theological training so that they will be deeply rooted in the truth of the Bible and equipped for shepherding their congregations.

Educating and Equipping For Opportunity

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Any duration considered

We desire to provide education to people who otherwise do not have access to it, whether due to expense, distance, safety, gender or location.

Youth Training Centre

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Any duration considered

If you have a heart for young adults who do not know the Lord, come and join the team at our Youth Training Centre, in a small city in West Africa.

Reaching, Teaching and Discipling Youth

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2 years plus

You can have an eternal impact among young people in a country with deep needs and in which nearly 50 per cent of the population are children.

Next Generation

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Any duration considered

We long for all the children and young people in Benin to have a personal encounter with Jesus.

Strategic Discipleship

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Any duration considered

We are looking for people who can actively engage in discipleship through equipping key church leaders to develop a discipleship emphasis within their denomination.

Outreach Ministry

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Any duration considered

We would love you join us as we seek to be witnesses to Christ’s love among the communities we serve, such as marginalised girls, university students, and young people.

Medical Ministry

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Any duration considered

To be a witness of Christ’s love among people suffering from sicknesses and diseases so that they place their hope in Christ.

Alafia – Hope for Life

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2 years plus

Come alongside people living with HIV and their families in Benin as we seek to share about Hope for Life.

Healthcare Ministry

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Up to 2 years

Our healthcare ministry builds the capacity of healthcare workers to holistically care for the spiritual, physical, and emotional needs of Malawi’s most vulnerable and unreached populations.

Youth Evangelism and Discipleship

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2 years plus

We employ various ministry methods to develop relationships with young people in northern Mozambique in order to share God’s love and redemption with this generation.

Evangelism through Community Development

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Up to 2 years

Combat poverty. Educate. Reach the unreached. Change lives.

Children and Youth

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Any duration considered

In Namibia, approximately 60 per cent of the population is under 25. There are considerable generational and cultural barriers to reaching young people with the gospel.

Ministry to Children and Youth

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Any duration considered

To engage children and youth through the provision of sport, education, life skills and character development programmes, together with special care for orphans, vulnerable children and disadvantaged youth.

Word on the Street

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Any duration considered

You’ll be working in a defined geographical area on the streets of Cape Town alongside the local church.

Gospel Outreach

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Any duration considered

To implement a well thought-out ministry model to make disciples in the communities where Jesus is least known, through existing church partnerships or pioneering church planting.

Community Development

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Any duration considered

To implement well-planned and positive actions that address the felt and actual needs within communities and bring about positive transformation.

Youth and Children Ministries

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Any duration considered

We want to meet the needs of youth and children through youth centres, discipleship and mentoring, chaplaincy in schools, life skills training, sports coaching and after school clubs.

Education

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Any duration considered

We seek to provide a solid Christian education at a high academic level for primary and secondary students.

Indian Diaspora Ministry

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2 years plus

The Indian Diaspora ministry seeks to proclaim the Gospel to the unreached Indian communities in Malawi in order to bring them to the saving knowledge of Christ and to make disciples with the aim of forming a worshipping and missional community.

Children’s Ministry – Outreach and Capacity Building

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Any duration considered

This ministry seeks to equip children’s ministry workers to effectively disciple the emerging generation in the churches in Malawi.

National Outreach Ministry Team

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2 years plus

Work alongside nationals, and partners to see thousands of healthy churches composed of disciples of Jesus coming from the majority established throughout Bangladesh.

Transforming cities through business

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Any duration considered

Entrepreneurs, professionals, educators, students, artists, tradespeople … use your skills as part of our diverse team building friendships, blessing communities and sharing the good news.

Multi-skilled church planting team

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Any duration considered

Come and join our multi-skilled church planting team in rural South Asia through education, literacy, evangelism, Bible-teaching, and health ministry.

Outreach to Cavango Clinic Village

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2 years plus

This ministry is an outreach in partnership with the UIEA mission hospital of Cavango, in order to provide primary care to the remote and rural areas of this country with over 40 languages and a large rural population.

Outreach to Marginalised in the Cavango Region

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2 years plus

This ministry is an outreach in partnership with the UIEA mission hospital of Cavango, in order to provide primary care to the communities of the region.

Nhaneka Outreach

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2 years plus

Provide agricultural and vocational training for young people, enabling them to become productive members of society and leaders in their local churches.

Outreach to marginalised patients in partnership with CEML, Rio da Huila

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2 years plus

We serve the local community through high-quality medical care and teaching, which is how we reach impoverished and marginalised people with Christ-like compassion.

Church Leadership Training

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2 years plus

By faith, we see: believers being called into leadership, believers being equipped and mentored to fulfill leadership roles within their community and church communities being taught and led by well-equipped leaders.

S.H.I.N.E. Africa Project

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Any duration considered

We teach how the honour-shame dynamics of Scripture relate to cultural dynamics.

Medical and student ministry

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Any duration considered

We mentor young learners to be disciples of Christ and to use their professional skills for kingdom-building.

Children’s Ministry

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2 years plus

This ministry covers all issues pertaining to children. Sunday school training, early learning, orphans and vulnerable children, child trafficking prevention, family support and enrichment, schools Christian associations and Bible teaching in schools, sports ministry.

Medical Outreach

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Any duration considered

We want the community of Madagascar to know the healing love of Jesus Christ through compassionate health care, quality education, theological training and church planting.

Children’s Ministry

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Any duration considered

This ministry covers all issues pertaining to children, including Sunday school training, early learning, orphans and vulnerable children, child trafficking prevention, family support and enrichment, schools Christian associations, Bible teaching in schools and sports ministry.

Yao Outreach Ministry

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2 years plus

This ministry seeks to plant Christ-centred Yao churches that are Yao-led, worship in the Yao language, and are self-propagating throughout the Yao heartland and beyond.

Church-Planting in Least-Reached Areas

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Any duration considered

Serve in a refreshing, relevant, biblical local church in a context which has few and small evangelical communities!

Urban Northwest Ministry Team

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2 years plus

We’d love you to join the team and build up healthy congregations together!

Radio Waves of Hope

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Any duration considered

We need workers, both local and expatriate, to join our radio team.

Compassion Ministry of Ecuador

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2 years plus

Join our team of six mission workers and local volunteers in sharing Biblical principles with Christians and non-Christians in practical areas of life.

Outreach to Paraguay’s Interior Communities

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2 years plus

We are a group of mission workers with a passion to reach the towns and villages that have no access to a local church and/or have no believers in their community.

Alliances for Unreached Communities

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Any duration considered

Joining forces with other ministries in Paraguay, we see SIM Paraguay crossing barriers to those living and dying without the gospel in socially-defined communities.

Women’s Ministry

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2 years plus

We seek to support women at a range of life stages and situations, according to their needs, building relationships and trust, and helping them to understand the hope and joy the gospel offers.

Reaching Ayutthaya

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2 years plus

Reaching Ayutthaya seeks to see people who do not know Jesus transformed by the gospel through the work of a multi-cultural, multi-skilled team.

Church Planting in Partnership with OMF

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2 years plus

You would be involved in church planting and outreach in the least-reached parts of the country, with the aim of seeing a movement of indigenous, biblical churches reproducing among their own people in Thailand and reaching out in mission to other peoples.

Community Outreach and Discipleship

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2 years plus

Reach out in the community to see people responding to the gospel and being discipled into local churches.

Developing Francophone Theological Educators

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Any duration considered

This ministry has two key objectives: Equipping theological educators to effectively teach and disciple church leaders (through training in teaching and holistic curriculum planning skills).

Northern Thailand Church Planting

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2 years plus

We are church planting among the unreached communities of northern Thailand.

Young Professionals

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Any duration considered

In a city where the worship of idols is encouraged, we long to see professionals exercise their profession to the glory of God by reaching others with the Good News of Jesus Christ.

The Shoe Shiners of La Paz

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2 years plus

Kayuparu means ‘at his feet’, and is a ministry that is reaching out to the masked shoe shiners of La Paz.

Bolivia’s Youth and Children

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2 years plus

SIM is seeking workers to be involved in Bible clubs, puppet ministry, camping, sports, after-school tutoring, youth mentoring, big brother/big sister relationships, Young Life, university ministry, church or community-based youth groups.

Children with Special Needs

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Any duration considered

Do you have a heart for children with special needs? We are looking for psychologists and therapists, including occupational therapists, physical therapists, speech and language pathologists/therapists.

Vulnerable Families in Potosí

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Any duration considered

We long to see the children and families of Potosí, Bolivia, flourishing spiritually, emotionally and physically.

The Quechua in Peri-Urban Areas

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Any duration considered

Churches in peri-urban areas where SIM workers minister need Bible teaching and help to reach their Quechua neighbours of all generations for Jesus Christ.

Hope for a Neglected Majority

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Any duration considered

Come and join us as we serve communities that have for too long been robbed of hope because of oppression, division and mismanagement.

Vocational Training to Transform Unreached Communities

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Any duration considered

We need people interested in delivering vocational training who have experience in various trades, business and practical life skills who are passionate about reaching unreached communities.

University Ministry

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Any duration considered

We use a variety of methods to reach out to university students so they hear and understand the gospel and come to faith in Christ.

Migrant labors ministry

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2 years plus

There are currently 700,000 migrant labors in Taiwan, from Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, and Thailand. Churches in Taiwan do not know how to reach out to…

Church Planting and Evangelism among the Diaspora Chinese in Africa

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Any duration considered

Where there is a Chinese restaurant, let there also be a Chinese church.

Diaspora Ministry

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Any duration considered

We are building teams to share the good news of Jesus to those living in diaspora communities in many places around the world.

Church planting in the Ruhr area

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2 years plus

In our conservative evangelical international church plant we need faithful preachers, servants and house meeting group leaders who can give discipleship to new believers. We also have outreach groups, who run book tables, and need evangelists to lead new people from all nations to faith in Jesus.

Church planting in Munich, the most neglected metropolitan city in Germany

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2 years plus

More workers are urgently needed! We want to see new international churches for the migrants in Munich and to support the already-running ministries.

Mayotte ministries

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Any duration considered

SIM workers use business and their professions to become accepted members of the community, build relationships and eventually share the gospel in private settings.

Sharing Life in Church and Community

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Any duration considered

We’d love to welcome those with a heart for sharing life with the peoples of the Middle East.

Reaching the Next Generation through Education and Discipleship

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Any duration considered

We have opportunities for teachers, pastors and youth workers to work with the next generation in North Africa.

Transforming unreached communities through development

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Any duration considered

We need people who are passionate about community development and justice and have a heart for unreached people.

Professionals Among Muslims

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Any duration considered

We seek professionals of all kinds to engage in their work whilst living in unreached communities.

People Care and Trauma Healing

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2 years plus

We are looking for member care workers, psychologists and trauma healing professionals to come alongside our workers, local followers and unbelievers.

Reaching rural elderly people

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2 years plus

Partner with the local Faith Hope Love foundation in their ministry stations, organising programmes and home visits to elderly people in rural Taiwan.

International student ministry

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2 years plus

Partner with local churches to train and coordinate local church members in reaching out to international students in universities near those churches.

Asian Diaspora Outreach

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2 years plus

People who do not live in their homeland often feel uprooted from their cultures and more open for new friendships, new ideas, and are willing to adapt to a new cultural worldview.

Digo Outreach Network

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2 years plus

The Digo are the second largest Muslim Unreached People Group in Kenya. Although the Bible has been translated into Chidigo the impact of the gospel on this community of 460,000 along the south Kenya coast has been minimal.

Borana Outreach

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2 years plus

We need a vibrant and multi-skilled ministry team to serve the Borana-speaking communities in northern Kenya.

Outreach, Discipleship, and Church Planting

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Any duration considered

Come and join our international and multi-cultural team as we serve in a rural community in South Sudan.

Hidden Abilities

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Any duration considered

Hidden Abilities focuses on working with disabled children and their families in both the therapy center as well as in the homes of the children where physical therapy can be continued with the help of the broader family and community.

Somali Ministry

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Any duration considered

Our Somali Ministry provides global access to written, audio and visual resources explaining the gospel in the Somali language. Enhancing gospel communication by developing evangelistic…

Media and Publication Ministry

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Any duration considered

This ministry writes, records and broadcasts gospel messages in native languages for people groups throughout Ethiopia.

Theological Education

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Any duration considered

SIM Ethiopia’s theological education ministry focuses on equipping emerging church leaders with a biblical worldview of the mission of God in Christ from creation to new creation, and training to rightly handle and minister the Scriptures, that they might lead this Church into growth that results in passionate participation in the mission of God.

Bingham Academy

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Any duration considered

Bingham Academy provides quality Christian education within a multicultural community, developing students of integrity who can change the world for God’s glory.

Church Leadership Training

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Up to 6 months

Theological educators and gifted Bible teachers are needed to teach church leaders through part-time theological training.

Outreach and discipleship – Dagomba, Sisaala and Fulani

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2 years plus

Engage with these three focus peoples to share the good news of God in both word and deed, in the language of the peoples and in culturally relevant ways.

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