EE People Group ServicesVOLUNTEER SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES
NEW! Ever wish you could be in two places at once? Or that you could do a missions project from the keyboard of your computer? Now you can! We are looking for short-term volunteers who can work from home on projects that range from a few hours to several days or even longer: - Artists for print and Web materials.
- Musicians with an interest in the music of "two-thirds world" cultures to help develop songs as aids to learning and telling Good News stories.
- Translators to produce materials in a variety of national languages for Web pages, slide presentations, and book length training materials. Currently our most pressing needs are: Chinese, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Vietnamese.
- Fluent speakers of the above mentioned languages who can check and edit translations that others have made.
- Organizers to assemble and check lists of important data.
- Researchers to take on investigative projects concerning major religious background groups and other kinds of cultural issues related to our services, tools and training.
- Technical skilled people who can help develop delivery mechanisms for supplying training and materials world-wide through a variety of electronic media.
- Programmers to advise about, or to code, specific components of a new Web-accessed tool that will facilitate strategic planning for worldwide evangelization and discipleship. (Various aspects of the project are being done using Zend Framework, object-oriented PHP 5, SQL, Ajax, and Dojo.)
If you or someone you know would like more information about these needs and opportunities, please contact us via email.
SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES ON OUR INTERNATIONAL TEAM EE People Group Services is looking to expand its international team to develop and facilitate partnerships, strategies and implementation for training and witness among non-western people groups. Shown below is a list of roles and general requirements. To dialog with us about any of these ministries, please contact us via email. People filling these positions can live in any country where they have good access to reasonably priced international air travel. These service opportunities can be either full-time or part-time.
Communications Ministry Developer - Focus: EE People Group Services team building and inter-organizational partnerships.
- Special Requirements: Excellent relational and teamwork skills. Articulate in speaking and writing.
Integrated Ministry Developer - Focus: Partnerships and strategies for training and witness in ministries of mercy and healing that address dysfunctionality and suffering ---enslaving addictions, trauma and abuse, dysfunctional relationships, poverty and defeated livelihood, HIV/AIDS and other health crises, and destructive cultural mores, beliefs and worldviews.
- Special Requirements: Experience and academic preparation in the specific area(s) addressed.
Sub-Sahara Africa People Groups Ministry Developer - Focus: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Special Requirements: Fluency in French.
Americas People Groups Ministry Developer - Focus: Non-western people groups throughout the Americas.
- Special Requirements: Fluency in Spanish.
Hindu & Buddhist People Groups Ministry Developer - Focus: Hindu and Buddhist background-related peoples worldwide.
- Special Requirements: Fluency in Hindi.
Islamic People Groups Ministry Developer - Focus: Islamic-related peoples worldwide.
- Special Requirements: We are looking for IPG Ministry Developers for all parts of the world, but especially need people with fluency in: Arabic, Farsi, Malay, Turkish, Urdu.
Ethnic Arts & Media Ministry Developer - Focus: Web development. Use of arts & media in training & evangelism.
- Special Requirements: Non-western arts and media creation skills.
- Note: If more than one person is available, this role could be divided between Web development and ethnic arts & media.
New Advances Ministry Developer
- Focus: Firsthand exploration of the needs and opportunities for EE training worldwide.
- Special Requirements: Able to travel alone in areas that may be hostile to Christianity. Has had strong preparation in topics relevant to 10/40 Window countries and cultures.
Resource & Partnership Ministry Developer - Focus: Build relationships with people interested in providing resources for our worldwide ministry.
- Special Requirements: Good communicator. Financial management skills.
Web Development Specialist- Focus: Firsthand exploration of the needs and opportunities for EE training worldwide.
- Special Requirements: Web development, including graphics and scripting/programming. Fluency in a language other than English is preferred but not required.
Team Renewal Leader - Focus: Pastoral and counseling care for our team worldwide. Assist in partnership development ministry.
- Special Requirements: Able to travel alone worldwide to wherever our team members and associates are living.
Research Assistants - Focus: Assist Ministry Developers with various aspects of people group research.
- Special Requirements: Skilled in research and writing.
SPECIAL QUALITIES REQUIRED FOR THE ABOVE-LISTED INTERNATIONAL POSITIONS - Great appreciation and esteem for peoples of non-western cultures.
- Excellent cross-cultural relational skills.
- Extended living experience in a non-western culture. (For roles with a specific regional focus, has extended living experience in the region for which application is being made.)
- Fluent in English, plus at least one other major language, preferably more.
- Emotionally healthy and mature, strong devotional life and moral self-discipline.
- No physical limitations that could be difficult to address in international travel to remote areas.
- Is comfortable with doing international travel economically and alone.
- Enjoys working as part of an international team that is spread out through many countries.
- Self-motivated, takes initiative in work and relationships.
- Creative in analyzing challenging situations and developing a variety of solutions.
- Appropriate academic background.
- Has a good reputation among Christians and non-Christians.
- Fully agrees with EE's and EE People Group Services' vision & mission, and guiding principles and statement of faith.
- Is enthused about strengthening God's kingdom through the EE ministry!
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