Volunteer Needs

The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. There is a critical need for volunteers in the Task. There are many exciting ways to be a part of how God is moving throughout Northern Africa and the Middle East.

If you are interested in serving on any of the strategic projects listed below, you can begin the application process on the International Mission Board's volunteer website. You may address questions to the NAME Regional Volunteer Strategist. If your question relates to a specific request, click on that job's "follow up" button.

Prayer Walking/Tourism (Job #87420)

  • Location: Northern Africa
  • Dates: Between October 1, 2007 - October 1, 2009 (any 14 days)
  • Persons Needed: 36
  • Cost: $1,000 + airfare

Using the established tourism route for Prayer Walking in important towns. This request is for the individual(s) who want to pray for doors to open to longer term access in and near those towns, for finding key door keepers or Men of Peace, and for "taking down" Satan's strongholds. This job places prayers close to the target people. Some stamina for short difficult walks will be encountered. Accommodations are 2 star type hotels and simple food. Travel is by airplane in most cases.

Adventure Travel Tour (Job #87558)

  • Location: Middle East
  • Dates: Between October 1, 2007 - December 31, 2008 (any 10 days)
  • Persons Needed: 50
  • Cost: $1,400 + airfare

The Adventure team will engage in cultural activities and excursions. The exact nature of the adventure will be set, based on the group coming and dates or seasons of travel. They might travel in urban or rural settings. The volunteers will have encounters with local people in order to learn their culture and way of life. The group will engage the local people in giving and receiving hospitality. They will focus on prayer for people they meet and set the stage for ongoing relationships.

Ethno Research (Job #87424)

  • Location: Northern Africa
  • Dates: Between October 10, 2007 - December 31, 2009 (any 5 days)
  • Persons Needed: 2
  • Cost: $590 + airfare

This job requires an individual, or team, called to a ministry of intercession who has good communication and motivational skills, and who will commit to 2 years as a prayer advocate for a very large population segment. The job includes a week-long information gathering trip by a small team. The objectives are to visit the population segment to gain information, catch vision, and pray; then return to the US to mobilize and sustain intercession for these millions.

Prayer Walking/Trekking (Job #87421)

  • Location: Northern Africa
  • Dates: Between October 15, 2007 - May 25, 2009 (any 14 days)
  • Persons Needed: 36
  • Cost: $1,000 + airfare

Prayer walking in either: 1) towns with hotels and food available at ** type standards. 2) simple hotel rooms with just a bed, hole-in-the-ground toilet down the hall, and food of national origin (injera be wat). 3) remote locations using camping and hiking to access the people. Only for very healthy, outdoors type individuals. Food, equipment,etc. would be carried by volunteers, with the help of local guides with pack animals. Tourism, ESL and Human Needs could be entrance platforms.

Agricultural Prjoect (Job #87425)

  • Location: Northern Africa
  • Dates: Between November 1, 2007 - December 31, 2008 (any 14 days)
  • Persons Needed: 1
  • Cost: $378 + airfare

What we want to do is to place volunteers and ISCers in the countryside where they will work with rural farmers to improve their productivity, giving us access to folks who need the Gospel! Help us identify projects that can be done by believers with an ag. background. This is also an opportunity for you to explore how God's work can impact lostness even in a tightly controlled Islamic police state.

Medical Education (Job #86876)

  • Location: Northern Africa
  • Dates: Between January 1 - December 31, 2008 (any 7 days)
  • Persons Needed: 4
  • Cost: $545 + airfare

Use your medical experience to share the love of Christ with unreached professionals in North Africa. Build relationships through teaching about the operating room in a hospital setting. Pray for people who have never been prayed for specifically by name. Minister among these professionals expecting God to bless them and their community with new believers.

Medical Education (Job #86873)

  • Location: Northern Africa
  • Dates: Between January 1 - December 31, 2008 (any 7 days)
  • Persons Needed: 4
  • Cost: $545 + airfare

Use your medical experience to share the love of Christ with unreached professionals in North Africa. Build relationships through teaching basic nursing skills in a hospital setting. Pray for people who have never been prayed for specifically by name. Minister among these professionals expecting God to bless them and their community with new believers.

Medical Education (Job #86872)

  • Location: Northern Africa
  • Dates: Between January 1 - December 31, 2008 (any 7 days)
  • Persons Needed: 4
  • Cost: $545 + airfare

Use your medical experience to share the love of Christ with unreached professionals in North Africa. Build relationships through teaching infection control and universal precaution skills in a hospital setting. Pray for people who have never been prayed for specifically by name. Minister among these professionals expecting God to bless them and their community with new believers.

Medical Education (Job #86871)

  • Location: Northern Africa
  • Dates: Between January 1 - December 31, 2008 (any 7 days)
  • Persons Needed: 4
  • Cost: $545 + airfare

Use your medical experience to share the love of Christ with unreached professionals in North Africa. Build relationships through teaching history taking and full assessment skills in a hospital setting. Pray for people who have never been prayed for specifically by name. Minister among these professionals expecting God to bless them and their community with new believers.

Prayer Walking (Job #87489)

  • Location: Northern Africa
  • Dates: Between February 1, 2008 - April 1, 2009 (any 14 days)
  • Persons Needed: 12
  • Cost: $1,150 + airfare

Come to the Horn of Africa and prayer walk among a highly resistant people. Help us identify open doors in communities of peace. We need teams which are wholly supported and sent out by their home church to take on the spiritual challenges of reaching our people group. These people of the Horn are in a chronic state of crisis. Skills within the team can included expertise in a medical profession, education, engineering, ESL, livestock, veterinary science, agriculture, and business.

Community Outreach (Job #87490)

  • Location: Northern Africa
  • Dates: Between February 1, 2008 - April 1, 2009 (any 14 days)
  • Persons Needed: 12
  • Cost: $1,150 + airfare

Come to the Horn of Africa and prayer walk among a highly resistant people. Help us identify open doors in communities of peace. We need teams which are wholly supported and sent out by their home church to take on the spiritual challenges of reaching our people group. These people of the Horn are in a chronic state of crisis. Skills within the team can included expertise in a medical profession, education, engineering, ESL, livestock, veterinary science, agriculture, and business.

Prayer Walking/ Vision/ Discovery (Job #87508)

  • Location: Northern Africa
  • Dates: Between February 1, 2008 - January 1, 2009 (any 7 days)
  • Persons Needed: 6
  • Cost: $445 + airfare

A team will prayer walk among an unreached urban Muslim people group in North Africa. The ratio of light to darkness runs at about 1 believer to every 35,000 Muslims; to see things change in a radical way will require both quantity and intensity of prayer for an unprecedented act of God to draw these people to Himself. This city does not yet have an IMB team of missionaries and will be part of the prayer effort to plant a new team among the people of the city.

Prayer Walking (Job #87505)

  • Location: Northern Africa
  • Dates: Between February 1, 2008 - January 1, 2009 (any 7 days)
  • Persons Needed: 6
  • Cost: $445 + airfare

A team will prayer walk among an unreached urban Muslim people group in North Africa. Concentrating on one city, they will go on specific prayer walks covering current ministries and untouched areas of the city. The ratio of light to darkness runs at about 1 believer to every 35,000 Muslims; to see things change in a radical way will require an intensity of prayer for an unprecedented act of God to draw these people to Himself.

Prayer Walking (Job #87507)

  • Location: Northern Africa
  • Dates: Between February 1, 2008 - January 1, 2009 (any 7 days)
  • Persons Needed: 6
  • Cost: $445 + airfare

A team will prayer walk among an unreached urban Muslim people group in North Africa. Concentrating on one city, they will go on specific prayer walks covering current ministries and untouched areas of the city. The ratio of light to darkness runs at about 1 believer to every 35,000 Muslims; to see things change in a radical way will require both quantity and intensity of prayer for an unprecedented act of God to draw these people to Himself.

Prayer Walking (Job #87509)

  • Location: Northern Africa
  • Dates: Between February 1, 2008 - January 1, 2009 (any 7 days)
  • Persons Needed: 6
  • Cost: $445 + airfare

A team will prayer walk among an unreached urban Muslim people group in North Africa. Concentrating on one city, they will go on specific prayer walks covering current ministries and untouched areas of the city. The ratio of light to darkness runs at about 1 believer to every 35,000 Muslims; to see things change in a radical way will require both quantity and intensity of prayer for an unprecedented act of God to draw these people to Himself.

Prayer Walking (Job #87506)

  • Location: Northern Africa
  • Dates: Between February 1, 2008 - January 1, 2009 (any 7 days)
  • Persons Needed: 6
  • Cost: $445 + airfare

A team will prayer walk among an unreached urban Muslim people group in North Africa. Concentrating on one city, they will go on specific prayer walks covering current ministries and untouched areas of the city. The ratio of light to darkness runs at about 1 believer to every 35,000 Muslims; to see things change in a radical way will require both quantity and intensity of prayer for an unprecedented act of God to draw these people to Himself.

Medical Education (Job #86874)

  • Location: Northern Africa
  • Dates: Between June 1 - December 31, 2008 (any 7 days)
  • Persons Needed: 4
  • Cost: $545 + airfare

Use your medical experience to share the love of Christ with unreached professionals in North Africa. Build relationships through teaching basic ICU skills in a hospital setting. Pray for people who have never been prayed for specifically by name. Minister among these professionals expecting God to bless them and their community with new believers.

Literature Distribution (Job #87401)

  • Location: Northern Africa
  • Dates: Between September 1, 2008 - September 11, 2009 (any 10 days)
  • Persons Needed: 6
  • Cost: $585 + airfare

This team's objectives will be to make the Word of God available to an illiterate, unreached people group, to share the Gospel with them when possible, and to do a lot of praying with and for them. The team will make daily trips into rural areas to make visits and work to carry out the objectives through relationships with the people. These objectives play a crucial role in the overall strategy to reach this people.

Medical Ministry (Job #87402)

  • Location: Northern Africa
  • Dates: Between September 1, 2008 - September 12, 2009 (any 10 days)
  • Persons Needed: 3
  • Cost: $585 + airfare

Do you want to join in what God is doing right now among an unreached people group? Use your skills as a doctor or dentist to do small scale medical work in rough conditions while ministering to the spiritual needs of the people. We need individuals to carry out non-medical roles as well. We would like medical work and community outreach such as children's ministry to be done simultaneously. Objectives include meeting the felt needs of the people and distributing the Word of God.

Community Outreach (Job #87396)

  • Location: Middle East
  • Dates: Between September 1, 2008 - September 2, 2009 (any 14 days)
  • Persons Needed: 10
  • Cost: $613 + airfare

This team will be focusing primarily in community outreach, involving utilization of gifts and abilities to develop relationships within the people group. This could include (but is not limited to) English conversation classes, medical screening, computer training, small repairs of homes, distribution of goods, music workshops, etc. - all of which are intended to show the love of Christ to many different levels of local society, ranging from government officials to tent-dwelling Bedouins.

Prayer Walking (Job #87397)

  • Location: Middle East
  • Dates: Between September 1, 2008 - September 2, 2009 (any 14 days)
  • Persons Needed: 10
  • Cost: $613 + airfare

This team will be involved in a multifaceted project in the rural areas, but focusing primarily on providing strategic support to the Rural Team through participation in a prayer project - Praying in Every Village.

PT/OT/Speech Therapy (Job #87422)

  • Location: Middle East
  • Dates: Between October 1, 2008 - November 1, 2009 (any 12 days)
  • Persons Needed: 4
  • Cost: $595 + airfare

Your job would be to go with the local team to centers (and homes) of the physically disabled, and add your expertise to the evaluations they are making. There are also opportunities to give in-service teaching to the workers at various centers around the city, and to have spiritual conversations with the families they are working with, and your testimony could be a part of that.

FOAM (Job #89246)

  • Location: Northern Africa and the Middle East
  • Dates: Between October 1, 2008 - March 15, 2009 (any 8 days)
  • Persons Needed: 6perteam
  • Cost: $0 + airfare

Wanted! Fishermen with a passion for the Gospel. 2 1/2 million persons in this people group remain unreached. You can help by coming to this country in the center of the 10-40 window with a team of fishermen and fishing. Your job will be to have fun as a Christian fisherman, pray for this people, and help develop strategies and intercessor networks focused on this unreached group.

ESL Teacher (Job #90140)

  • Location: Northern Africa and the Middle East
  • Dates: Between October 5, 2008 - January 20, 2009 (any 99 days)
  • Persons Needed: 2
  • Cost: $0 + airfare

If you are looking for an opportunity to make an impact, this may we what you are looking for. We need a couple to join our team for several months at a well established ESL center. Our students are primarily young adults. They come from the city as well as surrounding villages and refugee camps. Relationships established in the classroom often lead to home visits where deeper discussions can develop. Those filling this position will teach independently, but will follow a set curriculum.

Port Medical (Job #86861)

  • Location: Northern Africa
  • Dates: Between November 1 - December 15, 2008 (any 12 days)
  • Persons Needed: 4
  • Cost: $1,649 + airfare

Share your medical expertise over sweet, spicy cups of coffee as you interact with and minister to a people sometimes referred to as "The Least Evangelized in Africa." As you form relationships, pray and search for persons of peace from this people to come to know the Lord. Pray and minister among this precious people expecting God to bless their community with new believers.

Deaf Drama Team (Job #87571)

  • Location: Middle East
  • Dates: Between March 1 - October 30, 2009 (any 9 days)
  • Persons Needed: 6
  • Cost: $500 + airfare

The Palestinian DEAF need your help. Our deaf friends have asked for help with Drama. We are looking for a drama team to perform and to TEACH local deaf Palestinians how to create a stage production. While you are in town, you'll have opportunities to visit in homes as well as the deaf centers. And as always, prayer walking will be an important part of your time with us. If time and conditions allow, we'd like this team to work with us in two locations. Web Site: Palestinian-arabs.com

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