Skilled Associates
Put your experience on the team.
There’s likely a place for your experience on the church-planting team, helping missionaries serving in remote, unreached villages who rely on dedicated missionaries who support their work.
Associates serve for six months (although a minimum commitment of one year is preferred, and required for teachers) to four years. Looking for something longer? After four years, skilled associates may also have the opportunity to continue in their ministry.
“Jesus Christ is working in us, growing us and teaching us so that we will reflect Him and His glory here on earth. What a privilege to get to be used by God and to point others to His perfect and holy Son! …Living in Papua New Guinea for the past six months was a life changing experience! I will never forget all of the incredible adventures and lessons I learned during that time.”
Victoria L.
Qualifications
for serving as a skilled-associate with Ethnos
All personnel must:
- Agree with Ethnos Canada’s Statement of Faith
- Have personal assurance of salvation by faith in Jesus Christ
- Maintain a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and be involved in a local church
- Be a consistent witness for Jesus Christ by maintaining a courteous, Christ-like attitude in dealing with people within and outside of Ethnos Canada
- Desire to be part of a team effort to evangelize least reached people groups
- Have high moral character with positive references and not have been convicted of a criminal offence for which a pardon has not been granted
- Understand that most Ethnos Canada ministry opportunities are physically, emotionally, and mentally challenging and that appropriate health in these areas is required
- Be willing to trust God for financial and material needs
- Have no preexisting school, auto or credit card debts without a repayment plan (some exceptions apply)
Becoming a Missionary
With more than 6,000 people groups still unreached, the task is bigger than just us. God is calling out workers from the ethnos to go.
Our role in mobilizing, equipping and coordinating missionaries extends beyond our own culture. From all around to the world, God is calling out workers to be a part of reaching the ethnos!
Thousands of believers from more than three dozen countries are actively working together in Africa, Latin America, Northern Canada and the Asia-Pacific Region.
Are you ready to join?
Why Choose Ethnos?
what makes ethnos distinct?
Most missionaries serve through sending organizations. How can you and your church choose the one that’s right for you? Find some of the reasons you might choose Ethnos.
Training
Ethnos Canada’s Specialized Training
Your role as a career missionary and previous Bible education determine the training you’ll need, which can take from one to four years. Learn more about Ethnos Canadas specialized training.
Available Positions
Scripture Typesetter/Layout Specialist
Salary: None – Financial support raising required
Purpose: To format tribal New Testament text for printing.
Responsibilities: The person in this position would be using various publishing and design software programs to take a missionary team's Scripture translation project and prepare it for printing. The software used in this ministry includes Paratext, Publishing Assistant, Adobe InDesign, Photoshop and Adobe Acrobat.
Requirements
- Other Requirements
Good organizational skills, careful attention to details, an eye for design layout, capacity for working with design software, ability to keep track of multi-stage projects, and an ability to communicate technical terminology clearly with overseas missionary teams. Global Partners would provide training for a qualified person through an online workshop that teaches the candidate how to use the necessary programs listed above -- Paratext, Publishing Assistant, Adobe InDesign Photoshop, and Adobe Acrobat. Prior experience in InDesign and Photoshop would be helpful.
Church Planter/Development
Location: Village
Salary: None – Financial support raising required
Purpose: The goal of a church planting/development team is to present a clear understanding of the message of the Bible and to see New Testament churches established and brought to spiritual maturity through continued teaching, discipleship, and Bible translation.
Responsibilities:
After arriving in Asia Pacific church planters/developers will begin and become highly proficient in the language and culture of Asia Pacific. After team formation the church planters/developers will move into villages and begin an intense time of culture and language acquisition of the local language while building relationships among the people. After reaching proficiency in the culture and language, the church planters/developers will write Bible lessons and translate Old Testament portions and the New Testament into the local language. This takes place while systematically teaching Bible lessons in order to build an understanding of God’s Word. In most cases the church planting team is involved in literacy training. The ongoing work of the church planter/developer is to see new believers discipled and develop local church leadership.
In some cases, a national church presence has previously been established in a village setting and we are being requested to come alongside these ministries to assist in the maturation process. Literacy, lesson development, Bible translation, teaching and other typical church planting/developing ministries still apply to these situations.
Requirements
- Education Requirement
Ethnos Training
National Missionary Trainer
Location: Missionary Training Center
Salary: None – Financial support raising required
Purpose: To prepare missionaries for reaching their own people with the Gospel
Responsibilities: After arriving in Asia Pacific missionary trainers will begin and become highly proficient in the language and culture of Asia Pacific. Upon completion of culture and language study, the candidate will join a team at one of the training centers with the goal of teaching preparing missionary candidates for future ministry.
Requirements
- Education Requirement
Ethnos Training