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Journeyman program
For the past 39 years,
more than 4082 adventurous young college
graduates have gone all around the world.
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These Southern Baptist, twenty-something, single, college
graduates wanted to do something more after graduation than just jump-start their
careers ...
Journeyman missionaries. . . on
mission
with God
Journeyman: a)
formerly, a worker who had served his
apprenticeship and thus qualified himself to work at his trade.
In centuries past, skilled craftsmen didn't just sell the family business.
The stonemason and the blacksmith put their trade in capable hands—hands of
apprentices they trained themselves. The journeyman is just that:
a worker on a journey toward mastery of the trade. No longer an apprentice, the
journeyman sharpens and hones skills that will later allow him or her to take on
greater responsibility.
With that purpose in mind, the Journeyman program was conceived in 1964 in the
shadow of President Kennedy's new Peace Corps. The International Mission Board
wanted to provide Southern Baptist recent college graduates a way to work with
career missionaries—to learn the "tools of the trade."
b) now, a worker who has learned his
trade.
Once the tools are in hand, the Journeyman program is a
seedbed for career missionaries. Since its start, hundreds of returned
Journeymen have been appointed as career and/or associate missionaries.
In recent years, more than 40 percent of all IMB career and/or
associate appointees had previous Journeyman or ISC experience!
Young men and women who are willing to accept
two years of overseas service are making an eternal impact on an ever-changing
world.
In 1990, the Journeyman program served as the model for the fledgling
International Service Corps (ISC) Program. This sister program boosted the
screening capabilities for a larger segment of our Southern Baptist family who
were seeking avenues of overseas service.
Click here to read
some of the exciting stories from real journeymen.
Qualifications for the Journeyman Program
Do You Have What it Takes?
 - You must be 48" to ride this ride.
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- * A sense of God’s leadership
- * Emotional, physical and spiritual health
- * Twenty-something (at least 21)
- * An active member of a Southern Baptist church for the
past two years
- * Single and never married, with no children
- * Citizen or permanent resident of the United
States
- * Completion of an accredited bachelor’s degree prior to orientation
- * Willingness to commit to a two-year assignment
- * Commitment to evangelism that results in indigenous churches
- * A growing Christian faith
- * Ability to clear your calendar for a four-day conference in Richmond
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Have you ever served as a journeyman missionary?
What was the highlight of your experience? Share your responses on the
Forum!
- Check out the ISC/Journeyman Forum
- A community in process: Forum
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