How To Become a Missionary with Global Frontier Missions
Global Frontier Missions staff members are involved in many different activities from leading short term missions trips to planting churches. All of our staff and missionaries are volunteers and faith-based meaning that they raise all of their own financial and prayer support from individuals, churches, and businesses. We don't have any salaried positions in our organization. Some of our people work as tentmakers meaning that they earn a living with a normal part or full-time secular job while doing ministry inside and outside the workplace. Others have left good paying jobs and now raise support by asking for donations from friends, family, and churches. We have had people from their teens to their 50s be a part of the GFM family. The people that serve full-time with Global Frontier Missions have a true sense of calling on their lives and are dedicated to seeking first the kingdom of God knowing that he will provide for all of their needs.
The first step in joining our organization is to go through the five month missionary training school or the ten month missionary apprenticeship. This is a great way for us to get to know you and your gifts and for you to get to know us. It is a type of candidacy and screening program to see if you would work well with our team and a chance for you to get to know our staff, our values, our vision, and our ministry philosophy. After completion of one of the above programs, if we both feel good about the relationship we will look for a place where you can work using your giftings, personality, and passion. We have many staff opportunities with GFM at our US locations in Atlanta or Houston and we have also sent out church planting teams in places like Mexico and Thailand. We also have good relationships with other missions organizations and love sending the people that we have trained to go and bless them if Global Frontier Missions isn't the right fit for you.
Most GFM staff and missionaries are also a part of a ministry called Commission to Every Nation which helps with newsletters, pastoral care, and donation receipting.
We would love for you to come and join the team as this ministry is growing very quickly and we have urgent staff needs below:
Short-Term Mission Coordinators - We are looking for some people with leadership, teaching, and administrative abiliities to be in charge of all of our short-term mission trips. We need a short-term mission coordinator for our base in Atlanta and Houston. These people will be in charge of promoting, organizing, and hosting our short-term mission trips which focus on doing work projects, ESL classes, backyard Bible clubs, and relationship evangelism among immigrants, refugees, and international students. This position also includes organizing trips to the 10/40 window and a bit of mobilzation (speaking in churches and campus groups about God's heart for the nations).
Missionary Training School Leaders - We are looking for some leaders that have a bit of life and ministry experience in teaching, discipleship, counseling, and pastoral care. We need MTS leaders for our Atlanta base and also want people with a pioneering spirit to start works in new locations. These people need to have a heart for unreached people groups and a strong call to equip and train people for cross-cultural service among those that have never heard.
Administrative Assistants - We are in desperate need for people with administrative gifts for our Atlanta and Houston locations to help stay on top of correspondence with donors, potential short-term teams, Missionary Training School students, and other contacts via email and phone. These office managers would be in charge of all of the logistics at each base and need to be familiar with everything that is happening within the organization. We could also use people with accounting and bookkeeping skills as well as people that can help with all of the logistical side of the organization.
Internet and Media Department - We need some full-time staff that would be dedicated to keeping our website updated with fresh content and pictures. They will also be in charge of marketing, developing our web presence, e-commerce, and search engine optimization. We could also use people that are gifted with graphic design and layout to help with brochures and other promotional materials as well as people that have gifts for shooting and editing video.
Contact us about any of these opportunities.
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How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!"
Romans 10:14-15 (NIV)
Romans 10:14-15 (NIV)