posted on January 1, 2025
aXcess: Experience and Training Through Creative Approaches at the New National Capital in Indonesia
Join a newly formed team working among five unreached people groups to launch deeply context-fitted house fellowships, planting seeds of ministry and developing creative approaches to reach the wide-spread rural communities. The team seeks to open a training center by 2026, with a focus on preparing young workers for cross-cultural work among the majority population. Join us with your skills in life-on-life training.
Position Type
- International worker (IW)–aXcess–Vocational Track or Clergy Track
- Community development (rural), creative arts/ethnoarts, discipleship, ESL/TESOL, church planting, business development, education, theological education, evangelism, leadership development, NGO
- Creative-access country (CAC)
- Partially funded
- Single or couple
Responsibilities:
- Work with both international and local cross-cultural workers planting house fellowships, engaging and empowering the least-reached peoples of the area in ways that lead to demonstration and proclamation of the gospel
- Join the training center leadership team as mentor and trainer upon gaining experience on-location
- Live in a community of the majority faith, seeking out people of peace with whom to build relationships and bridges into the community
- Use skills, training, passions, and background to establish a meaningful and impactful presence through community development and/or other context-fitted approaches
- Pursue language fluency at both the day-to-day and the formal levels, gaining a basic level of fluency in at least one of the local languages
Required Qualifications:
Clergy Track
- A recognized bachelor’s degree
- Completion of at least 30 hours of Bible/theology/ministry and 15 hours of intercultural studies
- Spouse must hold a recognized bachelor’s degree and have completed at least 18 hours of Bible/theology, 12 hours of missions/ministry studies (with a minimum of 6 hours in cross-cultural or missions studies)
- Completion of Alliance ordination/consecration
- Minimum of two years successful Alliance Licensed Ministry Experience
Vocational Track
- Completion of the World Perspectives Mission Course (minimum of certificate level) or equivalent
Both Clergy and Vocational Tracks
- Completion of Alliance Polity course
- A minimum Modern Language Aptitude Test (MLAT) score of 60
- Experience in discipleship and mentoring
- Ability to identify, equip, and train both international and local cross-cultural workers
- Experience in ministry and work outside the walls of church
- A deep heart for unreached people groups and utilizing a creative, context-fitted approach to ministry
Preferred Qualifications:
- Clergy Track: MA in international studies/Bible/theology
- Vocational Track: BA in a development-related field (adult education, community development, international economic development, agriculture/soil, public health, etc)
- Clergy/Vocational: Current involvement in ministry or social work; interest in exploring topics of culture and sociology, topics of creation care, environmental restoration, tropical agriculture, and topics of interest for the majority religion
Biblical Characteristics Desired:
- Kingdom-minded
- Biblically grounded
- Spirit-dependent
- Competently skilled
- Self-aware
- Self-disciplined
Timeline for Deployment:
Summer/fall 2027. All appointees are required to attend a cross-cultural and language acquisition program and pre-field course/experience prior to deploying.
General Information:
The successful applicant will live in a rural town with the amenities and stresses that accompany a more isolated location. With the plans for the new capital, modern amenities will likely increase over the next 10 years. The status of Christian witness is minimal with less than 1 percent of the local UPGs reached.
Language Expectations:
Language is an essential part of ministry. Those who do not know the language will attend a language study program. The goal will be to speak, read, and write the language at a functional level in order to mentor, teach, and train others.
The successful applicant(s) will receive one year of intensive language study at a well-established language center on another island, followed by ongoing language and cultural acquisition on location.
Health Considerations:
Well-trained doctors and medicines are not easily immediately available, though there are medical services in the city two hours away. Serious illnesses or medical emergencies are best handled in Jakarta or Singapore.
Expectations for Spouse:
Spousal roles vary based on the spouse’s gifts, training, and abilities as well as the needs of the team. It is expected that both spouses will be meaningfully involved in meeting ministry objectives depending on the nature of family roles, children, etc.
Children’s Educational Plan and Options:
Homeschooling will be the best option for this location. For older children, there are also several choices of boarding schools—two in Indonesia and one in Malaysia.
Compensation Package
The successful applicant(s) will receive a full compensation package with the expectation that, once appointed, efforts will be made to raise a portion of support costs through the applicant’s network of friends, family, local church, or other resources. Information on support costs will be made available upon application. Training and/or coaching in fundraising is available.
Whole-Life Health
As part of an evangelical denomination, we are committed to biblical holism, which is modeled and reflected through our work. Due to this commitment, part of the required qualifications includes optimal emotional, spiritual, and physical health. These will be assessed during the application process.
Important Clarification
Applicant(s) should be aware that serving in the international world often requires a higher degree of grace and flexibility. For example, overseas teams can be suddenly and unexpectedly impacted by illness, government decisions, financial realities, team changes, or other factors beyond the team’s control. The challenge for applicants is that these factors can sometimes necessitate the sudden redefining of a position, which may take place before, during, or after the application/interview process has begun or is completed.
Questions?
Please email the IPO office at [email protected].