Our Mission:
To grow and release well-formed disciple makers into the global PI family through hands-on mission and mentoring, within life-on-life multicultural teams.
Current Openings
Children’s Education Coordinator
| Responsibilities: | Create and coordinate schooling options for children and facilitate age-appropriate training on life as Third Culture Kids and young disciples of Jesus |
| Scope: | full-time; fully or partially support-raised salary* |
| Gifts: | Gifts: teaching, passion for serving kids, adaptive thinking |
| Skills: | creating curricula and lesson plans for varying ages, leading other teachers |
| Character: | humble and teachable, emotionally resilient, lives into PI core values |
Logistics Coordinator
| Responsibilities: | Organize and implement the process and details of GDS’ housing, budget, schedule, and travel arrangements; potentially involved in recruiting and website management if gifted |
| Scope: | full-time ; fully or partially support-raised salary* |
| Gifts: | organizing and managing details, planning, ideally creative problem solver |
| Skills: | systems thinking |
| Character: | humble and teachable, lives into Pioneers core values |
Mentoring Coordinator
| Responsibilities: | Train and care for GDS mentors; find and cultivate new GDS mentors; mentor some GDS participants |
| Scope: | full-time or part-time; fully or partially support-raised salary*; can be in conjunction with another role in GDS or in personal ministry outside GDS |
| Gifts: | empathetic listening, good at connecting with people, spiritual discernment |
| Skills: | asking open-ended questions that invite participants to reflect and see the Father’s activity in their lives, asking challenging questions, providing accountability, debriefing |
| Experience: | ideally a history of regularly being mentored, ideally lived on the field and been in ministry for 6+ years |
| Character: | humble, hungry to learn, shares vulnerably from experiences, lives out Pioneers core values seen in: intimacy and dependence on God, gracious perspectives towards life/ministry, and committed to life in community/team |
Church Planting Coaches Coordinator
| Responsibilities: | Train and care for GDS Church Planting Coaches; find and cultivate new GDS Church Planting Coaches; coach some GDS participant ministry teams |
| Scope: | full-time or part-time; fully or partially support-raised salary*; can be in conjunction with another role in GDS or in personal ministry outside GDS |
| Gifts: | evangelist, leadership and developmental mindset, encouraging, teaching |
| Skills: | coaching/training, providing accountability, debriefing |
| Experience: | ideally been involved in various stages of disciple making and church planting, ideally lived on the field and been in ministry for 6+ years |
| Character: | humble, hungry to learn, lives into Pioneers core values seen in dependence on God for fruit (prayer), makes lifestyle decisions in order to reach Unreached People Groups, innovative and flexible in church planting methodology, desire to partner closely with local Sydney churches |
* All positions are salaried from full or partial support raising. That said, we seek to be flexible and creative in our model of funding — both for participants of GDS and as a Training Team. We are open to pooling team funds, mutually raising support for each other, and trying various other models of living as an intercultural team with a core value of koinonia.
To learn about our Core Values as a Training Team:
Contact us if you are interested in exploring becoming a part of our training team.