Positions Available With Grace Missions, Mozambique
States-side Director for Hospital Ministry
- Requirements:
- Unequivocal commitment to doctrines of grace
- In agreement with F.I.R.E.’s statement of faith (see www.firefellowship.org)
- Experience in missions
- Experience in church ministry
- Experience working with physicians and other medical personnel
- Public relations skills
- Willing to travel widely and live out of a suitcase
- Frugal, energetic, having great vision and determination
- Above all, possessing the spiritual qualifications required of men in this capacity
- Job Description:
- Report to Hospital Trustee Board at annual meetings in San Antonio, Texas
- Run the day to day States-side affairs of the hospital ministry
- Recruit potential long and short-term medical missionary candidates
- Develop relationships with:
- Providers of equipment and supplies for mission hospitals
- Potential donors
- Other medical ministries in Africa and countries with living conditions similar to those in Mozambique in order to learn from their experiences and benefit from their advice.
Two General Surgeons
- Requirements:
- Unequivocal commitment to doctrines of grace
- Burden for evangelizing the lost
- Portuguese proficiency to level of first year curriculum
- General surgical residency
- Board certification preferable
- Active involvement in a home church willing to serve as both sending church and mission board
- Job description:
- Participate in hospital evangelism
- Perform outpatient surgical consultations
- Admit and treat inpatient surgical problems
- Perform operations from various specialties
- Supervise local surgical trainees
Anesthesiologist / Nurse Anesthetist
- Requirements:
- Unequivocal commitment to doctrines of grace
- Burden for evangelizing the lost
- Portuguese proficiency to level of first year curriculum
- Completion of anesthesiology residency or nurse anesthetist training
- Board certification preferable
- Active involvement in a home church willing to serve as both sending church and mission board
- Job description
- Participate in hospital evangelism
- Administer general, regional, and local anesthesia in operating room
Family Practitioner
- Requirements:
- Unequivocal commitment to doctrines of grace
- Burden for evangelizing the lost
- Portuguese proficiency to level of first year curriculum
- Completion of family practice, internal medicine, or emergency medicine residency
- Board certification preferable
- Active involvement in a home church willing to serve as both sending church and mission board
- Job description:
- Hospital evangelism
- Perform outpatient consultations on wide range of problems
- Oversee local nurse practitioners
- Supervise all medical care for Nampula expatriate population
- Treat non-surgical outpatient cases
- Refer surgical patients to surgical clinic for admission
- Refer non-surgical patients needing inpatient treatment to surrounding medical facilities, or admit and treat as tolerated by local Department of Health (surgical clinic not authorized to admit non-surgical patients)
Hospital Administrator
- Requirements:
- Unequivocal commitment to doctrines of grace
- Burden for evangelizing the lost
- Portuguese proficiency to level of first year curriculum
- Business management skills
- Personnel management skills
- Active involvement in a home church willing to serve as both sending church and mission board
- Job description:
- Participate in hospital evangelism
- Handle hospital finances
- Order hospital supplies
- Promote funding of hospital
- Interact with governmental authorities
Positions Available With Grace Missions
Church Planter
- Requirements:
- Unequivocally committed to doctrines of grace
- In agreement with F.I.R.E.’s statement of faith (see www.firefellowship.org)
- Experienced
- Elder qualified
- Seminary trained, or equivalent
- Proficient in Portuguese to level of first year curriculum
- Actively involved in a home church willing to serve as both sending church and mission board
- Job description:
- Serve as role model for existing church leaders in pastoral ministry, preaching
- Disciple, train current church leaders
- Participate as one of several teachers in pulpit ministry (may not monopolize the pulpit ministry because of the need to develop our national teachers)
- Organize Bible classes, instruct church participants
- Assist other congregations when invited to do so
- Evangelize in city with view to establishing a downtown church
- Help organize the FIEL conferences for church leaders
- Teach FIEL pastors’ seminars
- Help with literature distribution to pastors on FIEL’s book program
Bookshop Manager
- Requirements:
- Unequivocally committed to doctrines of grace
- In general agreement with F.I.R.E.’s statement of faith (see www.firefellowship.org)
- Well-read in Reformed-style literature
- Equipped with good organizational skills
- Computer skills, able to maintain Excel inventory spreadsheets, learn to use and maintain bar scanner program
- Proficient in Portuguese to level of first year curriculum
- Actively involved in a home church willing to serve as both sending church and mission board
- Job description:
- Handle finances for book shop
- Maintain, determine stock
- Oversee shop workers
- Promote use of book room through advertising (radio, pole ads, mail)
- Help with literature distribution to pastors on FIEL’s book program
- Organize nation-wide mailing list
- Seek donors to subsidize books
- Arrange satellite bookrooms
- Organize book sales at annual FIEL conference
- Help organize the FIEL conferences for church leaders
- Teach FIEL pastors’ seminars
- Help with literature distribution to pastors on FIEL’s book program
Administrative Assistant / Personal Secretary
- Requirements:
- Secretarial skills
- Bookkeeping skills
- Computer skills
- Publishing and Power Point presentations
- Web site maintenance
- Quicken accounting
- Excel spreadsheets
- Organizational skills
- Proficiency in Portuguese to level of first year curriculum
- Active involvement in a home church willing to serve as both sending church and mission board
- Job description:
- Handle all contracts, payroll, other governmental regulations for hired staff
- Handle all bureaucratic requirements related to government, donor organizations
- Handle all paperwork for Grace Missions, Ltd.
- Handle all bookkeeping for Grace Missions, Ltd.
- Help with procurement of supplies for building projects
- Assist with record keeping and legal matters for the bookshop
- Assist with organizing the FIEL conferences and seminars
- Maintain the Grace Missions website from Nampula
- Assist with States-side correspondence, publicity
- Help with home-schooling
Address: Grace Missions 723 South D Street Oxnard, California 93030