Group experiences

Mission fellowship visits
Mission fellowship visits take interested supporters to ministry locations for a defined period of time to encourage workers, learn about Mennonite Mission Network ministries first hand, experience expanded cross-cultural awareness and broaden interest in mission. Upcoming:

World Conference Tours with Mennonite Mission Network

Work Teams
Work teams support the vision of international church partners by providing physical and financial resources to help them construct needed facilities. More importantly, work team participants walk alongside international partners, building relationships that can serve as the beginning of future mission partnerships. Read more...

Individual assignments

Thank you for your interest in our individual assignments. Please review our General Qualifications and Lifestyle Expectations before applying for any of the following positions.

Africa

Benin

• Community Development Project Liaison
  Person would consult with existing NGO partners in program development and capacity building
  Posted: 10/1/2008 | Needed: Immediately

• Seminary/Bible School Professor
  Short-term teaching possibilities with West African Mennonite Churches and Bible institutes
  Posted: 10/1/2008 | Needed: October-May

• Ministry of Presence/Logistics Coordinator
  Relate to existing Mennonite churches in the region, providing a link between Congolese and American Mennonites
  Posted: 10/1/2008 | Needed: as available

• English Teachers
  Teach English at a Chinese university under Mennonite Partners in China.
  China
  
  Posted: 10/5/2008 | Needed: August annually

• Educational Assistant - Counseling Center
  English language training, website editing, and hospitality coordination at Nanjing Institute of Zhi-Mian Psychotherapy (eastern China)
  Posted: 10/1/2008 | Needed: August 1, 2009

• Journalist/Copy Editor
  Write stories for Joint Christian Services (JCS), a Christian interdenominational service agency working in Mongolia. JCS needs a person to promote them by writing stories for the Mongolian people, the web site, for potential donors, and for prayer supporters.
  Mongolia
  
  Posted: 10/5/2008 | Needed: Flexible

• Medical Advisor
  The Medical Advisor needs to be available to examine and give medical advice to Joint Christian Services staff and employees and to others in the broader missions/Christian community in Mongolia, and either treat or refer them to others for treatment. Investigating medical opportunities for other volunteers, keeping records and medical supplies up to date and coordinating with medical services, institutions and personnel in Mongolia are other responsibilities attached to the position.
  Mongolia
  
  Posted: 10/5/2008 | Needed: Flexible

• Team Leader for Services and Finance
  To manage and work with members of the Services and Finance functions, and to interface with members of the Leadership Team, JCS’s Relief, Development and Social Work operations and with funding agencies, foundations and government agencies as appropriate.
  Mongolia
  
  Posted: 10/5/2008 | Needed: Immediately

• English Teacher
  Teach English for Connexus, which is an agency of the Korea Anabaptist Center that seeks to provide opportunities for holistic education and cross-cultural understanding through English language instruction.
  South Korea
  
  Posted: 10/5/2008 | Needed: Flexible

• Economic Community Development Worker
  Help the Isaan people in their physical needs so they can have better lives and experience the love of God; build relationships and share the gospel, lead the Isaan people to know Christ and to join the church.
  Thailand
  
  Posted: 10/5/2008 | Needed: immediately

• Evangelism/Church Planting
  Join the expanding church-planting ministry among the Isaan people in Mahasarakham Province of northeastern Thailand. Help establish a ministry center in Phisai Kosum with outreach into surrounding villages.
  Posted: 10/5/2008 | Needed: Immediately

• Congregation-Based Project Worker
  Live in a small community house in urban Hackney, East London, and assist the congregational worship and community life in addition to outreach and social witness.
  Posted: 10/13/2008 | Needed: Spring 2009

• Interim Director of London Mennonite Centre
  One-year interim appointment - a significant opportunity to lead the LMC through a time of transition. Includes overseeing the appointment of a new Director (or equivalent) for a 3-year term (renewable), to implement the new 5-year Strategic Plan. The primary responsibilities include: working closely with the staff and Board to provide support, direction and insights during this period of change; provide vision and promotion for the programme of the LMC and way of life at the LMC; oversee future programmes and planning at the London Mennonite Centre; manage the work of the Centre Staff – currently 4 UK staff - (1 part-time and based elsewhere) and 3 volunteers (hosts + Bridge Builders intern); teach/preach/write on Anabaptist and radical Christian discipleship issues both at the LMC and at venues elsewhere in the UK.
  Posted: 6/10/2009 | Needed: Nov. 2009-Nov. 2010 (negotiable)

• London Mennonite Centre Host
  The hosts provide a logistical backbone for all the activities that go on at the LMC. By handling the community calendars and keeping the building repaired and maintained, the different facets of the LMC ministry can carry out their missions. Since hospitality is a core aspect of the LMC mission, the hosts are the front line and set the tone for the entire house. The primary function of the hosts are to facilitate the work of the ongoing programs of LMC including: some financial supervision and financial management; hosting and hospitality of guests and visitors; general maintenance of the physical facilities; office support; and coordinating work of volunteers.
  Posted: 6/10/2009 | Needed: February 2010

• Project Assistant (Ethnic Minority Project)
  EMBRACE is a church-based initiative to promote a positive response to people seeking asylum, refugees, migrant workers and minority ethnic people in Northern Ireland (Belfast). Worker would assist with office support, capacity building, strategic development, program delivery, networking and publicity (position will be shaped to person).
  EMBRACE
  
  Posted: 10/13/2008 | Needed: Spring or Fall 2009

• Youth Project Worker
  Organizational planning, development of Christian ethos, program delivery and publicity in a large residential outdoor centre for youth on the east coast of Co. Down (Newcastle).
  Posted: 10/13/2008 | Needed: January or August 2009

• Bi-vocational church-planting intern
  Patagonia Missionary Project sends interns into a community where relationships have been established. Specific roles are negotiated based on the gifts and experiences the person would bring. Possibilities may include discipleship work with new believers, activities with children, teaching Sunday School, English, music or literacy. Skills in mechanics, carpentry and repair could be helpful to the local church in work towards financial self-sufficiency. Interns can also participate in mission trips to other ministry locations.
  Posted: 10/13/2008 | Needed: Flexible

• English Teacher
  Teach English to children, youth and adults in Patagonia as a part of the Choele Choel Mennonite Church ministries. This may include assisting students with school English assignments or forming classes for people who just want to learn English. (A previous intern had about 40 students who met in small groups or individually.)
  Posted: 10/13/2008 | Needed: flexible (school term is Feb.-Nov.)

• Pastoral Accompaniment Facilitators
  The Mennonite Team in the Chaco working with indigenous churches would like to place workers who have a strong personal commitment to sharing Christ and who are looking for a career in intercultural missionary presence. In-service training will be essential throughout long-term ministry, so this assignment may be seen as a "tenure track" internship. A sense of "call" is important, but the specific content may be defined along the way, and largely by the "host" partner. Due to the cultural context, some roles would be filled better by a married couple, while a single person could serve in meeting other team responsibilities.
  Posted: 10/13/2008 | Needed: ASAP

• Regional Mission Intern
  VEMZO (Visión Evangelistica y Misionera de la Zona Oeste) was affirmed as a regional mission program by the Argentina Mennonite Church in 2002. A formal partnership now includes four Atlantic Coast Conference churches. Groups from ACC and Argentina visit each other in alternationg years to deepen relationships between partners through firsthand experiences of one another's contexts, review and learn from one another's practices and stimulate deeper spiritual bonds and prayer for one another. A Mission Network couple from Penn. has served in the region and the Argentine churches would like have an ongoing personnel presence to strengthen relatioships and participate in their holistic ministries.
  Posted: 10/13/2008 | Needed: Flexible

• Regional Mission Intern
  PROMINOA (Programa Misionero al Norte Argentino), based in Buenos Aires, seeks interns to be a part of their Buenos Aires churches and participate in their youth ministries. Possibilities include informal English teaching and support for youth and young adults seeking freedom from addictions. (A partnership with North Central Conference is in an exploratory phase, and PROMINOA also mentioned this internship as a way to strengthen relationships if someone would come from that conference.)
  Posted: 10/13/2008 | Needed: Flexible

• Teachers of Bible, Theology, and Leadership Development
  The Latin American conferences which relate to Mission Network are working hard on leadership development and in general have ongoing interest in the participation of Anabaptist professors from other countries. Professors teach courses that help students study/read the Bible with Anabaptist understandings and prepare them for teaching and leadership responsibilities. Short courses may fill a specific need or a longer-term position may develop in conjunction with partner churches and institutions. When interest is expressed, specific possibilities will be explored with partner churches and institutions.
  Posted: 10/13/2008 | Needed: Flexible

• Ministry Intern
  The Iglesia Evangélical Menonita Boliviana includes eight congregtions, three in Santa Cruz and five in rural areas. In 1989, IEMB together with Mennonite Central Committee formed Promoción Juvenil al Servicio (PROJUSE), a one-year voluntary service program for young adults 18-28. Ministry may include discipleship, evangelism, planning camps for children and youth, social work, handicrafts, teaching and writing. The IEMB is also interested in interns to work within their congregations. Possibilities are explored through PROJUSE and/or directly with a congregation. Most recently the rurall church in Don Lorenzo has expressed interest in someone to work with adolescents and youth and help in leading services.
  Posted: 10/13/2008 | Needed: PROJUSE begins each January; other placements are

• Accompaniment and Anabaptist Resource Facilitator
  A growing number of Chilean congregations are rediscovering/discovering Anabaptist roots. They have requested accompaniment that ideally would involve some direct Anabaptist teaching and also networking with resource people in Chile and throughout the Latin American context.
  Posted: 10/13/2008 | Needed: Flexible

• School and church outreach accompaniment workers
  The Mennonite church and school in La Mesa coordinate multiple ministries including a K-12 school, a youth group and local service ministries. Both the school and the church appreciate support in teaching English. There are also opportunities to support church-planting efforts in nearby communities, including work with displaced people in responding to physical, emotional and spiritual needs. Especially with a longer-term presence, this role could have a connecting component with sister churches and sister schools in the U.S., and opportunities for mentoring young adults.
  Posted: 5/14/2009 | Needed: ASAP

• Social Service Volunteers
  Servicio Voluntario Menonita Christlicher Dienst is the voluntary service program of the Paraguayan Mennonites. Job assignments include a daycare center, a home for children who formerly lived on the streets and a mental hospital. For those who have higher language skills and development training, there are also community development possibilities. Living arrangements are in a multicultural dorm where German, Low German and Guarani are heard along with Spanish.
  Posted: 10/13/2008 | Needed: Flexible

• Bible and Theology Instructors
  Bible and theology instructors are needed at Union Biblical Seminary and in Mennonite churches.
  Posted: 10/5/2008 | Needed: October-December and/or January-March each year

• Medical Doctors
  Teach and serve in Mennonite-related hospitals.
  Posted: 10/5/2008 | Needed: Immediately

• Middle School and High School Teachers
  Teaching and administrative positions are available at Woodstock Christian School. Woodstock is a Christian, residential school, K-12. See Woodstock for current openings.
  Posted: 10/5/2008 | Needed: July 2009

• English Teacher
  Tutoring and English instruction are needed at Mar Elias Educational Institution. Mar Elias is a Christian Arab Israeli institution located in the village of Ibillin. Students study in English but are still in need of upgrading their language ability. Teachers are needed throughout the year but particularly during spring and summer.
  Posted: 10/13/2008 | Needed: Flexible

• Tour Guide
  Nazareth Village was built to give visitors an inside look at what a town of Jesus' time would be like. The village brings to life a farm and Galilean village, recreating Nazareth as it was 2000 years ago. A person assigned to this role will be available to village staff as needed, to help maintain the farm, participate in constructing new buildings, help guide international tour groups and help as needed with written communications in the office.
  Posted: 4/13/2009 | Needed: Immediately

• Bible and Theology Instructor
  Teach at Myanmar Institute of Theology and in partner churches of the Bible Missionary Church. MIT is the premier protestant interdenominational seminary of Myanmar, training the highest-caliber students and pastors. The Bible Missionary Church is a conference that is in dialogue with Mennonite World Conference about gaining membership status and identity as Anabaptist-Mennonite.
  Posted: 10/18/2008 | Needed: October-December and/or January-March each year

• Marketing/Communications Director
  United Mission to Nepal, an interdenominational organization that exists to serve the poor and marginialized in the name and spirit of Christ, seeks a person experienced in all aspects of corporate communications and marketing, including English-language promotional writing and news writing. Responsibilities include implemeting an integrated marketing strategy in order to attract resources and personnel, and to maintain a good working relationship with the government of Nepal and other major stakeholders. For more info, see Nepal.
  Posted: 10/13/2008 | Needed: Immediately

• Medical Workers
  United Mission to Nepal (UMN) is an interdenominational organization that exists to serve the poor and marginalized in the name and spirit of Christ. UMN places workers in a variety of positions. All the roles involve mentoring, coaching, and training Nepali professionals. Current openings include surgeons, pediatricians, general practitioners, specialists in obstetrics, internists, anesthetists, pathologists, dentists, nurses, pharmacists and lab technicians. They are also looking for medical professionals who are interested in working with health issues of women and children, and those affected by HIV/AIDS. For more info, see Nepal.
  Posted: 10/9/2008 | Needed: Immediately

• Technical advisors to local partner organizations
  United Mission to Nepal (UMN) is an interdenominational organization that exists to serve the poor and marginalized in the name and spirit of Christ. UMN works through local partner organizations throughout Nepal, often providing technical expertise to young organizations finding their way into maturity. Technical advisors will assist UMN staff and partners in capacity building, community development and partnership, usually with an emphasis on one of the following areas of work: HIV/AIDS, women and children, food security, peace and conflict transformation, enterprise development, disaster management, education, advocacy. For more info, see Nepal.
  Posted: 10/13/2008 | Needed: Depends on the position