Title: | Adventures Guatemala - Women's Ministry Coordinator |
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ID: | 1136 |
Location: | Antigua, Guatemala |
Long Term Missions Base Women’s Ministry Coordinator
Supervisor: Long Term Missions Senior Manager
Classification: Salary
Fundraising Goal: Amount to be Determined
Commitment: 3 Years Minimum
Location: Guatemala
Summary of Job
Oversee the implementation of B4A women’s ministry at your Adventures in Missions LTM Base. This includes, but is not limited to: conducting B4A Women’s Retreats and Trainings, discipling local women and World Race women, and coordinating women’s gatherings for continual impact, discipleship, and empowerment.
This role is three-fold:
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Local: conducting Women’s Ministry within your local community at your Adventures LTM Base
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World Race & GAP: pouring into, training, and discipling women’s ministry-focused World Racers on the squads that pass through your base; this may include engaging Racers to do women’s ministry both within their squads and in the local community
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STM: hosting B4A STM trips that pass through your base.
Job Expectations
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During LTM Training in Gainesville, GA:
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Attend a B4A Facilitator’s Training.
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Facilitate at least two B4A events before launching with your LTM Team.
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Meet on a monthly basis with your B4A Staff Supervisor
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Lead the planning and execution of women’s ministry events, retreats, and trainings at your Base
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Planning the logistics of your events
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Planning the curriculum, activities, and agenda of your events
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Recruiting necessary help
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Preparing a run-through before the events
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Facilitating debriefs afterwards
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Reporting to your Base Leader and B4A Staff Supervisor about your events
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Lead women’s discipleship at your Base
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Seek out women to disciple: both local women and WR women
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Equip these women to disciple other women
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Coordinate discipleship follow up plans aligned with B4A’s vision and your Base’s ministry efforts
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Communicate with your B4A Staff Supervisor
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Submit a Monthly Status Report on the progress of your women’s ministry at your LTM Base
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Participate in a monthly check-in via Skype/ Facetime.
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Provide ministry highlights through stories and pictures of women’s ministry at your Base
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Communicate what resources and support you need from B4A in Gainesville -- ask for help!
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Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Local Ministry
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Develop & share your vision for women’s ministry within your local community:
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Work with your LTM base leader, your LTM Team, and your B4A Staff Supervisor to develop your (and God’s) vision for pursuing local women’s ministry in your community
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Develop a written Women’s Ministry Development Plan (MDP) that includes SMART Goals of how you will develop women’s ministry in your community
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Needs to be aligned with your LTM Base’s vision for ministry
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Needs to be aligned with B4A’s mission & vision
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Invite your LTM team to participate/learn about/get trained in in B4A women’s ministry, depending on interest.
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Work with your Base Leader and your B4A Staff Supervisor to stay accountable to your Ministry Development Plan (MDP)
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World Race and Gap
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Disciple the World Race B4A Coordinators who come to your Base
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You will be paired with them at their WR Launch -- your B4A Staff Supervisor will inform and introduce you
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Discipleship looks like:
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Encouraging her in her women’s ministry efforts on the field: both within her team/squad and in local communities
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Seeking the Lord’s guidance as you encourage her in her spiritual growth
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Being a listening ear: listening to her with one ear, and the Holy Spirit with the other
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Making yourself available via email, skype, etc and also in-person when she is at your Base
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Host B4A Retreats and B4A Trainings for the World Race and Gap Squads who come to your Base
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Work with your Base Director, LTM Team, and the SQMs/SQLs of the Squads in order to plan a B4A ‘Training’ or ‘Retreat’ -- depending on SQM and SQL recommendations
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Could be during a month of ministry, an LDW, a Debrief, or a PVT
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Host additional B4A training for those interested in getting equipped for women’s ministry
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Observe and be looking for Racers or Gap Racers passionate about women’s ministry
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Work with their SQM/SQL to invite them to serve more fully in women’s ministry
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Make yourself available to disciple and empower them
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During a World Race or Gap Ministry Month at your Base: Work with your Base Director, LTM Team, and the SQMs/SQLs/Regional Directors to provide women’s ministry opportunities for the women of the squad, whenever possible
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Short Term Missions
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Working with your Base Leader and B4A Staff Supervisor to host B4A STM trips at your Base (STM trips are planned at least 6 months in advance)
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Serve as the ministry contact liaison and coordinator for the STM Trip
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Work with your LTM Team, local ministry hosts, and B4A Staff Supervisor to provide trip set up in:
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Ministry
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Lodging and food
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Logistics and transportation
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Develop a team of ministry partners to complete the fundraising goal. (Amount to be determined). Through this process ministering to partners through prayer and teaching biblical truths is essential. (I Corinthians 9:14, Philippians 4:17) Training for this located at: www.support.adventures.org
Competencies Required
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Professing Christian with established record of high Christian character, integrity, servant leadership, maturity, and a positive attitude
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Character and Integrity –must have strong Christian moral principles, be trustworthy, honest, fair, and display the Fruit of the Spirit in both word and action
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Servant leadership – must lead as Christ did with humility, considering their needs above your own and making it your priority to improve those you serve
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Maturity –must be strong spiritually, responding appropriately with respect to the time and place of every situation
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Positive attitude – must always be willing to do your best with what is asked of you
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Understand and embrace the core values, culture, and ministry of Adventures in Missions.
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Strong organizational skills
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Project management skills: able to manage multiple projects at once
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Passion for seeing women set free from spiritual and emotional bondage
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Experience in discipleship
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Ability to cast vision and rally people to a cause
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Ministry development vision and execution skills