Central Asia | Co-Vocational Healthcare Worker
Opportunity Overview:
Are you a health care professional looking to use your professional skills in loving service in God’s Kingdom? SEND Central Asia seeks to launch pioneering, gospel-focused, co-vocational, healthcare professionals to join our partner organization in reaching majority Muslim peoples who have almost no chance of hearing about Jesus. While you learn language and culture, and then enter local communities to care for the health of people here, you will also represent and share about our King Jesus. Deep partnership with teammates and local believers is vital to introduce people to Jesus and to encourage those who choose to follow him and become more like him.
Countries: Central Asia
Terms: Mid-Term (1 - 3 years), Long-Term (3+ years)
Responsibilities:
- Invest deeply in language learning and cultural adaptation as a foundation for future work and relational ministry.
- Work in your sphere of healthcare with professional excellence.
- Strategize, both independently and as part of a team, and innovate to create a professional role and ministry focus.
- Participate in the local ministry team with emotional and spiritual maturity, as a faithful colleague and friend.
- Build healthy inter-cultural, team relationships with teammates from cultures other than your own.
- Take the initiative to build relationships and create a community role with cultural sensitivity and respect for local people.
- Verbalize to others your hope in Jesus as you build trusting relationships, and show the power of the gospel by living an increasingly transformed life in Christ in your local community.
- Be an encouragement to local believers, supporting their key role in spreading the gospel in their local context, and prioritizing their safety as much as possible.
- Be a lifelong learner of the local people, their language, culture, and worldview, of healthy missions practice, and of yourself.
Qualifications:
- Hold professional credentials in excellent, current standing in your sphere of healthcare.
- Work experience and references in your healthcare profession.
- Cultural sensitivity and a willingness to adapt your method and life to fit a new culture.
- Skilled in team-oriented ministry with fellow workers and national leaders.
- Ability to work behind the scenes and empower and encourage others to lead.
- Creative, open-minded, independent self-starter.
- Demonstration of maturity in Christlike character and recognized ability to nurture your own walk with Jesus.
- Life-long learner in the area of ministry in a Muslim context with recognized gifting for discipleship.
- History of active ministry in one’s local, home church.
Additional Information:
We are looking for doctors, nurses, lab technicians, x-ray technicians, medical office managers, and various other specialties. We are mainly partnering with a local, private healthcare clinic with limited facilities that do include exam rooms, an operating room, limited lab facilities, and teaching space. There are opportunities to teach medical students and to work with an international staff from a variety of cultures and training backgrounds.
This is a support-raising position, with limited income-making potential at the present time.
Anyone who comes as a healthcare worker will need to agree to prioritize language and culture learning for the first two years of their first term and continuing, to some degree, for the duration of their service.
Currently, this opportunity is located in a large city, but SEND and its partner organization are trusting God to allow us to expand to more remote parts of the country.
Our Local Vision
SEND Eurasia is trusting God to expand into a new location in Central Asia, a location that is home to 59 people groups, 34 of which are considered unreached (Joshua Project). In this Central Asia location, we work closely with our partner organization to build teams of co-vocational workers that can live long-term in communities, learn language and culture, and build trusting friendships by doing life together with local people. Loving people as we work in professions that develop local communities offers us many opportunities to build gospel-focused bridges into these local communities and opens doors for the Spirit to draw people to himself.
