CROATIA | Discipleship and Youth Leadership Development Coordinator
Job Title: Discipleship and Youth Leadership Development Coordinator
Length of Service: Mid-to-Long Term (1+ years)
Ministry Vision/Purpose: We are cultivating an environment for a church planting movement that will result in transformed lives and communities through evangelism, discipleship, and holistic ministries. Our top priority is Intentional Leadership Development with a focus on purposefully developing leaders who will focus on young/emerging leaders.
General Job Description: You will be helping to foster a discipleship culture in the life of the church and among youth and young adults in the community. You will be expected to actively develop relationships with local teens in Trogir and create opportunities for spiritual engagement. You will need to invest time in learning language and culture in order to build trust with Croatians. You will serve the local church in its existing ministries and find ways to bridge its connections with youth. You will nurture and empower young leaders, inviting them to join as co-leaders, while actively building the ministry and shaping the vision. You will also work to connect young believers from Trogir with more mature youth and their activities in Split.
Qualifications/Requirements:
Field background: You have the joy and privilege of joining a church planting and disciple-making movement with 30 years of history. Less than one percent of the population of Croatia are evangelical believers and all the evangelical churches in the region that you will be working in have just emerged during the last 3 decades. We have a handful of experienced missionaries and many mature national leaders.
In Split you will find youth who have been raised in Christian homes for the first time. In Trogir you will have the opportunity to reach youth for the first time in its history. We have youth that are open to God in the community due to their catechism experiences within the Catholic church, but for the most part they tend to “grow out of it” in their early teen years as the culture is following popular secular norms and although most people in our community have a Roman Catholic identity they tend to be agnostic in their world view and practice.
Our conviction is that we can be agents of transformation as we: SHARE the hope of the gospel in the local context HELP them develop a relationship with Christ GATHER them into vibrant communities of faith that reflect the character of Christ As lives are transformed, these communities of faith will reproduce and ultimately impact entire nations with the faith, love, joy, hope, and peace of Christ. We are convinced that this is best done as we walk in complete dependence upon God, serve together as a healthy local ministry team alongside the national church as well as ministry partners in the whole body of Christ.
Length of Service: Mid-to-Long Term (1+ years)
Ministry Vision/Purpose: We are cultivating an environment for a church planting movement that will result in transformed lives and communities through evangelism, discipleship, and holistic ministries. Our top priority is Intentional Leadership Development with a focus on purposefully developing leaders who will focus on young/emerging leaders.
General Job Description: You will be helping to foster a discipleship culture in the life of the church and among youth and young adults in the community. You will be expected to actively develop relationships with local teens in Trogir and create opportunities for spiritual engagement. You will need to invest time in learning language and culture in order to build trust with Croatians. You will serve the local church in its existing ministries and find ways to bridge its connections with youth. You will nurture and empower young leaders, inviting them to join as co-leaders, while actively building the ministry and shaping the vision. You will also work to connect young believers from Trogir with more mature youth and their activities in Split.
Qualifications/Requirements:
- Pray: Cultivate a deep relationship with God and genuine love for the local church, youth, and young adults.
- Be a disciple desiring to make other disciples
- Serve with existing ministry team and under the authority of the local churches
- Take initiative and be a self-starter
- Engage in language and culture learning
- Create activities that serve the local community and provide opportunities for developing redemptive relationships
- Build purposeful connections with young individuals who have yet to embrace faith, with the goal of sharing the Gospel.
Field background: You have the joy and privilege of joining a church planting and disciple-making movement with 30 years of history. Less than one percent of the population of Croatia are evangelical believers and all the evangelical churches in the region that you will be working in have just emerged during the last 3 decades. We have a handful of experienced missionaries and many mature national leaders.
In Split you will find youth who have been raised in Christian homes for the first time. In Trogir you will have the opportunity to reach youth for the first time in its history. We have youth that are open to God in the community due to their catechism experiences within the Catholic church, but for the most part they tend to “grow out of it” in their early teen years as the culture is following popular secular norms and although most people in our community have a Roman Catholic identity they tend to be agnostic in their world view and practice.
Our conviction is that we can be agents of transformation as we: SHARE the hope of the gospel in the local context HELP them develop a relationship with Christ GATHER them into vibrant communities of faith that reflect the character of Christ As lives are transformed, these communities of faith will reproduce and ultimately impact entire nations with the faith, love, joy, hope, and peace of Christ. We are convinced that this is best done as we walk in complete dependence upon God, serve together as a healthy local ministry team alongside the national church as well as ministry partners in the whole body of Christ.
