Vietnam | Education and Teaching Ministry

Georgia | Short-term Pioneer Ministry Team

Opportunity Overview:

At-risk teens in the Republic of Georgia need mature, qualified adults to build into their lives and to demonstrate the life-changing hope of the gospel of Jesus. Coming to Georgia on a short-term team of experienced youth workers can really boost the ministry effectiveness of our local, long-term team, while giving you a chance to be discipled, to explore God’s cross-cultural call in your life, and to learn practical cross-cultural, ministry/life skills. Do you have ten days, two weeks, a month, or even a semester to reflect the transforming life of Jesus by working on a pioneering team serving local teens? Join us as we follow Jesus, love people, and join His Spirit moving in local communities.

Countries:  Transcaucasia, Georgia

Terms:  Short-Term (1-3 months)

 

 


Responsibilities:

  • Enhance the overall impact of our long-term team’s community development and outreach efforts by building gospel-focused relationships with local people they serve.
  • Engage in language and culture learning activities as required by the team in order to deepen your impact.
  • Contribute to the unity and care of the short-term team you serve on and submit to your team and local leadership as you serve the greater community.
  • Uphold all security protocols required of the team while in and out of the county, including what team members communicate on any digital platform before, during, and after the short-term trip.
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    Qualifications:

  • Prior experience working with marginalized or at-risk teenagers is a huge plus.
  • Ability to speak Georgian or Russian is a huge plus.
  • Ability to work as a team, submit to local leadership, and local cultural behavioral norms.
  • Ability to persevere in the face of hardships, unmet expectations, tedious or complex problem-solving situations.
  • Ability to self-reflect about your own learning on the trip and support others in their learning process.
  • Some prior cross-cultural experience a plus.
  • Track record of growing in your relationship with Jesus and dependence on His Word, His people, and His Spirit.
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    Additional Information:

    We are seeking to form small teams led by experienced long-term workers, and deployed as a team, for the mutual nourishment of the short-term team. The team leaders who accompany these short-term teams will be able to lift some supervisory and mentoring burdens off already stretched local, long-term workers.

    Teams are not required to be English-speaking but will need at least one English speaker to act as a liaison.

    All SEND Eurasia short-term teams will engage in some level of language and culture learning, and they will meet regularly together for supervision, mentoring, and encouragement.

    Living situations will likely place short-term team members in urban style apartments, requiring the use of public transportation, and an ability to shop, cook, do laundry, and care for the apartment independently.  Some ministry will also take place in smaller village contexts with varying degrees of modern conveniences.

    Our Local Vision

    SEND Eurasia is trusting God to expand into new locations in beautiful Transcaucasia, a region surrounded by Russia, Turkey, and Central Asian countries, and home to dozens of unreached people groups. Our team has launched in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi.  We have begun working closely with local churches and partner organizations to build pioneering teams that can live long-term in communities, learn language and culture, and build trusting friendships by doing life together with local people. Loving people as we work either in ministry or in professions that develop local communities offers us many opportunities to build gospel-focused bridges into these local communities and opens doors for the Spirit to draw people to Himself.

    Community Transformation Initiatives

    Engage with Poverty and Injustice
    Educate to Elevate
    Lift Up Women and Girls
    Build Durable, Healthy, Strong Families


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