Central Asia | Short-Term Medical Team
Opportunity Overview:
Coming short-term to Central Asia in order to practice your vocation can really boost the ministry effectiveness of our local, long-term teams, while giving you a chance to be discipled, to explore God’s cross-cultural call in your life, and to learn practical cross-cultural, ministry/life skills. Do you have ten days, two weeks, a month, or even a semester to reflect the transforming life of Jesus by working on a pioneering team serving local people? Join us as we follow Jesus, love people, and join His Spirit moving in local Central Asian communities.
Countries: Central Asia
Terms: Short-Term (1-3 months), Short-Term (2-4 weeks)
Responsibilities:
- Provide excellent professional services in line with your vocational expertise and under the leadership (and medical license) of local workers.
- Enhance the overall impact of our long-term team’s community development efforts by building gospel-focused relationships with local co-workers and community members.
- Engage in language and culture learning activities as required by the team in order to deepen your impact.
- Contribute to the unity and care of the short-term team that the participant is on and submit to short-term team and local leadership as you serve the greater community.
- Uphold all security protocols required of the team while in and out of the county, including what team members communicate on any digital platform before, during, and after the short-term trip.
Qualifications:
- Possessing the appropriate degrees, licenses, and experience required to engage in vocational activity with professional excellence.
- Some prior cross-cultural experience is a plus.
- Ability to work as a team, submit to local leadership, and local cultural behavioral norms.
- Ability to persevere in the face of hardships, unmet expectations, tedious or complex problem-solving situations.
- Ability to self-reflect about your own learning on the trip and support others in their learning process.
- Track record of growing in your relationship to Jesus and dependence on his Word, his people, and his Spirit.
Additional Information:
We are seeking to form and deploy small teams led by experienced long-term workers, for the mutual nourishment of the short-term team and to lift some supervisory and mentoring burdens off already stretched long-term local workers.
Currently, the polyclinic staff speak English, Russian, or Uzbek. ST medical teams do need a high level of English, Russian, or Uzbek.
All SEND Eurasia short-term teams will engage in some level of language and culture learning and meet regularly together for supervision, mentoring, and encouragement.
Living situations will likely place short-term team members in urban style apartments, requiring use of public transportation and an ability to shop, cook, do laundry, and care for the apartment independently. Some ministry will also take place in smaller village contexts with varying degrees of modern conveniences.
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.
