1. India Project #88130     Teach Church Planting Movement



India Project #88130          Teach Church Planting Movement
 
Shillong, India
Collegiate Volunteer Trainers
Leader Description - A servant who is mature and able to keep focused on the task, maintaining unity among team and supervisor and keeping communication between team and supervisor clear and open.

  

The purpose of this project is to open the eyes of the church in the Northeast to the abundant harvest surrounding them. The team’s goal is to motivate and equip God's people to reach out beyond themselves in order to take the Gospel to the ends of the earth.
 
This job would provide an opportunity to travel to many towns in the Northeast to teach Church Planting Movement (CPM) trainings for leaders from local churches. Through these trainings, we hope to find people group champions that will take the Gospel to these unreached and unengaged people groups. The trainings will be used to find a catalyst to start a CPM among these people groups. The IMB personnel in the area will be available for initial field training, setup, and field supervision, but team will set their own day-to-day schedule. Team will be working alongside national partners to train networks of believers and to conduct follow-up.

  

Animism is the predominant religion, but there are also Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists and Christians.
 

Contact Sam Porter at the Baptist General Convention of OK
405/942-3000 ext. 4337  E-mail - sporter@bgco.org

    
  
Collegiate, Semester Study Abroad Team
Shillong, India
Job #88153

Job Description: A great multitude which no one could count, from every nation and all tribes and people and tongues, standing before the throne..." This is our desire as we seek to reach those people groups that are unreached and unengaged. In Shillong, the capitol city of Meghalaya, there is wide range of people groups from all over North East of India. The college campuses there are filled with young students from many different backgrounds. Many come from an Animistic background in tribal people groups. Still, many others are Hindu, Buddhist and Christian. This job would entail going to college campuses to build relationships with the students there. The goal would be to form rapidly reproducing evangelism/discipleship groups. This job would also provide an opportunity to travel to other towns in the North East to teach Church Planting Movement (CPM) trainings for leaders from local churches. The desired result of these trainings would be to facilitate CPM's among unreached and unengaged people groups. The IMB personnel in the area will be available for initial field training, setup, and field supervision, but you will set your own day to day schedule. You will be working alongside national partners, but will spend a large amount of time facilitating your own ministry
 
Strategy Description: This job seeks to target a large range of people groups that are unreached and unengaged. By working with college students in the city of Shillong, we hope to be able to share Christ with them and then send them back to their respective villages to share with their families. This could potentially be used to find a catalyst (or a man of peace) to start a CPM among these people groups
 
Geographic Description: Shillong is located in North East India in Meghalaya which is one of the 'Seven Sister' states. Meghalaya is full of hills covered with dense jungles. It has fairly cold winters and very mild summers. Animism is the predominent religion but there are also Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists and Christians (primarily Catholics). Because of the many universities in Shillong, it is a major gathering point for young people from many different people groups.
 
Leader Description: A servant who is mature and able to keep focused on the task. Maintains unity among team and supervisor. Keeps communication clear and open with team and supervisor.

The Edge – Ends of the Earth Church Planting Trainers

Job #_____________

 

  
People Group: Multiple UUPG's
Location: N. E. India
Religion: Hindu/Animistic Tribal
Who: two male/ two female/couple
Length of service: 2 years-extension possible
Description:
Persons filling this role would be asked to travel extensively. As a pair you would be travelling to many different areas of the Northeast in order to train church networks, partners, and lay people in the 5 Parts of the Church Planting Plan and other Best Practices. Training national believers is exciting and essential. You will work with and train existing networks, as well find new networks in which to train. Best Practices training will help further the work in engaging any of 30 Unengaged Unreached people groups known to be present in the North East. The N.E. includes the "Seven Sister" states (Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura) as well as the state of Sikkim. You would be training in many or all of these states during your term.
Pairs would work closely at first with field supervision and transition to national partners capable of carrying on the work. Your desire should be to multiple yourself as a trainer in the nationals. Persons taking this role will be expected to come as learners with a teachable spirit. You will be learning from the nationals as well as teaching them to be obedient to the Word of God. You will be looking for fruitful and faithful men and women to help reach the UUPG’s of Northeast India.
If you like to stay busy and travel with a purpose, then this job is for you!
Description of people: N.E. India is all about variety. From the Himalayas of Sikkim and Arunachal to the plains of Assam, Tripura to the Hills (Think the Rockies) of Nagaland and Meghalaya geography is varied. Expect extreme heat, and extreme cold on the same trips. Peoples are also varied. N.E. has many tribal communities as well as mainstream Hindu castes. As the first year would be spent encountering many different networks and partners, the second year would likely lead to follow-up and deeper commitment with your partners.
  

Notes: The Ends of the Earth team was formed to facilitate engagement of least reached peoples of South Asia. You would become a significant part of engaging peoples for the first time with the gospel.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

The Edge – Ends of the Earth Explorer

Job #___________

Position: People Group Engagement

               
People Group: Multiple UUPG's
Location: N. E. India
Religion: Hindu/Animistic Tribal
Who: two male/ two female/couple
Length of service: 2 years-extension possible
Description:
Explore- Persons filling this role would be asked to travel extensively. As a pair you would be exploring the corners of N.E. India in search for any of 30 Unengaged Unreached people groups known to be present. The N.E. includes the "Seven Sister" states (Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura) as well as the state of Sikkim.
Engage- Once peoples are located biblical plans for entry strategy into these peoples would be employed in the hopes of either locating believers or winning the first believers among them. Little is known about these peoples at this point. This necessitates research on worldview, language and cultures of these peoples. Information gathered would greatly aid continued efforts to engage these peoples with a Church Planting strategy. Pairs would work closely at first with field supervision and transition to national partners capable of carrying on the work after the assignment was completed.
Description of people: N.E. India is all about variety. From the Himalayas of Sikkim and Arunachal to the plains of Assam, Tripura to the Hills (Think the Rockies) of Nagaland and Meghalaya geography is varied. Expect extreme heat, and extreme cold on the same trips. Peoples are also varied. N.E. has many tribal communities as well as mainstream Hindu castes. The Explore job description is tailored for the interests and strengths of the applicant as it allows for the "finding ones own niche". As the first year would be spent encountering many different peoples the second year would likely lead to closer involvement with one people of your choice for deeper development of resources and research.
  
Notes: The Ends of the Earth team was formed to facilitate engagement of least reached peoples of South Asia. You would become a significant part of engaging peoples for the first time with the gospel.

The Edge – Ends of the Earth SC Intern

Job #____________

Position: Strategy Coordinator Intern

      
People Group: Jalia Kaibarta
Location: N. E. India
Religion: Hindu
Who: two male/ two female/couple
Length of service: 2 years-extension possible
Description:
We hope you like fishing! Because,the Jalia Kaibarta are a people group who live and work along the rivers of Assam and Tripura as fishermen. This is an exciting role that offers an opportunity to engage an unreached, unengaged people group (UUPG). You will be working as a part of the “Ends of the Earth” team accepting responsibility for people not yet a part of the Rev. 7 choir. As an “SC” intern for this group you will be planning and facilitating strategy for their engagement. This involves initial research of the people’s worldview, language, culture and the logistics of their exposure to the gospel. Training in the best practices used around the region will be provided. This amounts to the best Church Planting training available anywhere in the world, taught in hands-on situations.
Description of people: Originally from a community of Orissa the Jalia currently number more than 700,000. 318,000 Jalia are listed in WB in the 1981 census. The word 'jal' carries two meanings. 'fishing net and water'. The Jalia mother tongue is Bengali though currently most are first language Assamese speakers. These non-vegetarians are occupied with fishing, agriculture and wage-labour. Recently the Jalia have responded well to modern health programs and possessed a 30% literacy rate in the 1981 census (rather high for that time). The Jalia are said to have been recent migrants to TP settling in the west Tripura districts. The pop. within TP is 52,000 (1981). surnames: Nag, Sarkar, Chowdury
Notes: The Ends of the Earth team was formed to facilitate engagement of least reached peoples of South Asia. You would become a significant part of engaging peoples for the first time with the gospel.

 

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