A few months ago we had a brainstorming meeting trying to tackle our developing problem of having too much going on around the globe. It is a great problem, but we realize we have more requests from teams around the world for long-term workers to come alongside them than we could realistically fill over the next year or two. One idea that came out of the meeting was to catalog the opportunities and create a database online of job openings in global youth ministry. We ended up with not only a database, but also an interactive map.
Within days of it being up and running on our website we had someone fill out an application to serve full-time in Zambia. We obviously did not expect results this quickly. The speed of the application coming in was not the most exciting bit though, but rather the location. The applicant was a Kenyan feeling called by God to do youth ministry in Zambia. We had not anticipated non-North Americans applying. We had dreamed too small. As we work through the affiliation process with the young man and his wife from Kenya we are continually reminded of God’s good and are glad his dreams and plans are not limited by ours.
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