Alaska | Member Care
Opportunity Overview:
SEND North is seeking a seasoned couple who desire to encourage and support the ministry efforts of our missionary families. The majority of SEND North missionaries live in remote village locations and face logistical challenges, isolation, and difficult ministry environments. Life can be difficult both for parents and children. To enable our families to thrive in ministry for many years, we need a husband-and-wife team to join the SEND North team and provide member care to our missionaries. If you have a heart to encourage and support missionary families in Alaska and northern Canada, we would love to connect with you! Please talk to one of our mission coaches today.
Countries: Alaska / Northern Canada
Terms: Long-Term (3+ years), Mid-Term (1 - 3 years)
Responsibilities:
- Encourage, visit, and give logistical, spiritual, and prayer support to missionaries over a large geographic region. This ministry includes elements of regular communication and traveling in small planes.
- Ensure that missionaries are consistently prayed for, and the field is informed of SEND North prayer needs.
- Connecting SEND North members to the organization and one another by coordinating and participating in trainings, conferences, and retreats that challenge, grow, and refresh.
- Providing proactive and creative personalized engagement with SEND North missionaries.
- Coordinating and/or carrying out missionary kids’ ministry to encourage, mentor, and challenge going deeper in building their own faith.
Qualifications:
- 10 years of full-time ministry experience preferred
- Cross-cultural ministry experience preferred
- Willing to live in/near Anchorage, AK (other locations within Alaska and Yukon, Canada will also be considered)
- Willing to travel in small aircraft
- Easy to host despite rustic living conditions
- Able to connect relationally and a willingness to help with practical needs in Anchorage and the villages
- Able to use a variety of methods to build relationship including face-to-face village visits, phone/video calls, text messages, letters/cards, etc.
- Sensitivity to the unique stresses and challenges encountered by missionaries serving cross-culturally
- Ability to work across generations, from children to adults
- A desire to grow and learn in the field of Member Care. Access resources outside of SEND North and connect them with needs and members
Additional Information:
SEND North’s vision is to see every community of the 60/70 Window (Alaska and northern Canada) filled with local disciple-makers who meet together regularly and have established regional leadership. To learn more, visit https://www.send.org/ministry-guides/alaska-canada.
Community Transformation Initiative:
Build Durable, Healthy, Strong Families
