Ukraine | Training Ukrainian Church Leaders
Opportunity Overview:
What does it mean to let the Word of God dwell richly within you while you live with daily uncertainty, risk, and signs of violence all around you? How can the Word of God transform His people so they can both mourn and rejoice, love sacrificially, and recognize one’s own trauma and receive care? Training leaders in Ukraine means bringing eternal theological truths into deep suffering and fear that the war in Ukraine has provoked. SEND has a long history of building into the lives and multiplying ministries of Evangelical Ukrainian Church leaders. As the Ukrainian church seeks to be a faithful witness during this time of war, SEND Ukraine continues to look for new workers who are ready to enter their world to equip church leaders to nurture healthy, resilient, loving churches grounded in the Word of God. How might God might use you to make an impact?
Countries: Ukraine
Terms: Long-Term (3+ years), Mid-Term (1 - 3 years)
Responsibilities:
- Language and culture learning
- Designing and implementing courses/training aligned with the standards of the Ukrainian seminary one is teaching at
- Taking a personal discipleship interest in students and equip them to make use of course subject matter in a variety of relational ministry contexts
- Mentoring, encouraging people to grow in physical, emotional, spiritual resilience
- Spending regular time engaging and coming alongside new leaders in a relational, discipleship ministry
- Modeling a life of discipleship to Christ, and servanthood in the body of Christ
- Participating in SEND team life on the field
- Current course needs for teaching positions available upon request
Qualifications:
- Specific educational requirements and teaching experience required for seminary teaching opportunities available upon request
- Pastoral and/or elder teaching experience required or preferred depending on opportunity
- Pioneering mission experience required for pioneer missiologists/trainers
- Life-long learning in how to disciple and counsel others
- Demonstrable ability to understand trauma, live resiliently in deep levels of instability, and hold pain and mourning with Ukrainian friends (trauma response training a plus)
- Heart for the glory of God to bring redemption and flourishing Kingdom life to the unreached
- Passion to make global followers of Christ who will spread the gospel
- Ability to be a team player with fellow workers and nationals
- Humility to work behind the scenes when needed and empower and encourage others to lead
- Heart of a servant, flexibility and cultural sensitivity
Start Date: Dates are varied and flexible depending on the needs of the field, and availability of new qualified workers.
Additional Information:
Formal education and training opportunities at a seminary level:
Some opportunities exist for qualified seminary level, missional instructors
Informal relational discipleship/mentoring opportunities
Some opportunities exist for qualified pastoral couples and lay leaders to mentor Ukrainian church leaders
Our Local Vision
Since the 1990’s SEND International has been committed to nurturing healthy, multiplying churches in local Ukrainian communities, and training passionate, global disciple-makers. SEND Ukraine desires to nurture missional, gospel partners who can make a lasting impact throughout the world. The war hasn’t changed our foundational focus to train, disciple, grow leaders, believers, and churches. We are more deeply committed than ever to supporting Ukrainian churches as they seek to serve with resilience and to thrive even while plunged into wartime conditions.
