International Missions Board
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Volunteers serve in a variety of self-funded projects.Short-term missionaries serve overseas for 2-3 years.Long-term missionaries demonstrate a long-term call to missions and initially serve in a 3 year apprentice term.
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Volunteer opportunities
Short-term opportunities 2-3 years
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Going News and Information
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Go back to the short-term service opportunities home page.
Find more information about missions, including links to Web sites from around the world.
Find inspiration, devotions and Bible studies about missions.
Read about the three ways to serve 2-3 years through the International Mission Board.
Research the current needs from around the world.
An overview of the short-term application process and necessary steps.
Avoid potential delays by reading about issues related to securing medical clearance.
Read the screening process timeline - application deadlines, screening conference dates, and field personnel orientation.
Research the IMB regional Web pages to see what God is doing around the world.
Questions and answers, frequently asked questions and other online help.
Read some postcards from journeyman missionaries from around the world.
Find links to stories about short-termers from around the world.
Information about subsequent assignments - serving another 2-3 year ISC term.
Information about attending a debriefing conference - for returned missionaries after their term of service.
How to mobilize your church or BCM toward greater involvement in world missions.
 
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The four-fold purpose of the International Service Corps, Journeyman and Masters Programs
  1. To utilize available resources to effectively meet field needs–the missionary candidate is the resource and the field need is the job one will do. It is our goal that this will be done effectively.
  2. To encourage eternal growth and overseas involvement–the application process itself should be a growing experience, but this goal means that people will hear and respond to the life-changing message you have to share.
  3. To provide personalized interpretation of global work to stateside institutions–IMB missionaries share what God is doing around the world through newsletters and then church visits once back in the states. You might be the only missionary your church has ever sent out, which now makes missions personal for them!
  4. To enhance the work to the international community in the USA–the world has come to America. After your return, you should take your overseas experience and begin to work in the international community here in the states. Not so much those who have immigrated to the states (which involves ministries of the NAMB), but those who have come to this country with the intention of returning to their country of origin. This may be their only opportunity of meeting Christians.

 

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