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Current Opportunities
Team Leaders for 2010
With the demand for places on our gap year teams increasing, the supply of leaders for these teams also needs to increase. In contrast to some organisations, our gap year teams are led by older leaders (often in their mid-20s) who have some experience of leadership and Bible teaching. Whilst this helps practically with running the placements, the focus for the leaders is on the discipling of the team members. Our hope and prayer is that all returning Smilers will return to the UK rooted and built up in Christ, primarily by having been taught God’s Word (and having opportunities to teach it) several times each week within the team context.
Could you be the leader we’re looking for? Please contact the Smile Co-ordinator to ask for more details.
Gap year teams 2010
Though
applications have already started coming in, there are still spaces
available on all of our teams planned for January 2010. We welcome people
applying generally for our teams so that we can try and put together teams
that work well together. For all of them though, we look for team
members to be servant-hearted young people who would thrive within a team context. You’d get a brilliant chance to combine travel and the experience of a totally different culture, whilst serving God and having a taste of overseas mission.
If this is what you’d like to do in your gap year, please contact the Smile Co-ordinator to ask for more details.
Serbia
We want to send a small team of graduates to Serbia to share their lives and the gospel with the people of Serbia. Many studies have shown that Europe is the most neglected continent in the world in terms of mission, and Serbia is certainly no exception. Click here and see whether this could be for you. If so, do contact the Smile Co-ordinator
Tanzania and others
“The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field” Matthew 9 37-38
There are often opportunities for individuals to spend a few months abroad serving God, often alongside some of our mission partners. These placements are generally quite flexible in time scale and location, so we would welcome a speculative enquiry.
New destinations are frequently being considered, and recently we’ve sent short-termers to Togo and east Asia for the first time. Placements often involve teaching in some capacity though this could vary from teaching in a primary to TEFL teaching in a language centre perhaps. Outside of this the possibilities for service are endless, ranging from working with disabled children, to evangelism, drama and sport!
Please contact us to find out more
Summer trip to Rwanda
We’re currently planning to send a small team of students to Rwanda for 2/3 weeks over the summer holidays. The idea is that this team will provide a taste of mission, give team members a realisation of the needs of Rwanda and the chance to start to establish a link with the faithful gospel ministry currently going on there.
Like our other placements there will be elements of practical serving the local community (probably in disadvantaged rural areas), sharing the good news of Jesus (within schools and churches) and discipleship during your time away.
Dates are not yet finalized, but will be for two-three weeks between mid-June to end-Aug.
Please contact us to find out more
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