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The church has existed on the European continent for 2,000 years, leading many to discount Europe in terms of missionary calling and opportunity. However, a closer look at the spiritual condition of the vast majority of Europeans today reveals both a great gospel opportunity and a great gospel need...
Over 1.8 million Muslim-background people now call Europe home. Many of them are not citizens. They may not fluently speak the language of their host countries and many are disillusioned with the only faith they have ever known — Islam. They are immigrants and refugees fleeing war and poverty in Middle-Eastern countries.
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Do you have a heart to see new workers grow and develop on the field to reach their full God given potential and thrive where God is planting them? We need people to join our Launch Team and help us to nurture, encourage, mentor and pray for and with new workers to the field.
Do you have a heart for immigrants and refugees? If so, consider joining our team in Cardiff, United Kingdom. The PIONEERS team has partnered in gospel ministry for many years with churches in the city and currently five units are serving.
Our team is looking for new team members with a servant heart and a passion to change the spiritual landscape of beautiful Asturias!
We’re asking the Lord to send us workers with various passions, skills, and backgrounds to bring the light of the gospel to several people groups that call Madrid, Spain home.
In a city of millions, comprised of nearly every people group in the world, how might you get the opportunity to connect with individuals and truly impact lives?
The Ministry Centre partnership works closely with a church in North Kensington to offer a variety of programs that draw in nearby Muslim-background families and provides a platform for a variety of engagements with individuals and families. By offering a weekly homework club, monthly craft activity & ladies’ lunch, and other points of connection and ministry, entire families are blessed and engaged while children are assisted, mothers are chatted to, and relationships are established.
Partnership members then volunteer in various churches and community centers, providing mentoring and assistance to refugees, and go into homes to offer more individualized tutoring. All of these opportunities serve as a platform for introducing spiritual topics into conversation and enabling life-on-life relational evangelism to take place.
Are you ready to offer your time in volunteering, service, and making a connection with these unreached peoples, so that they don’t become lost amidst the busyness and anonymity of London? Come for a short- or long-term experience and join us in the partnership!
Come, share the hope and love of God with the largest marginalized people group in Europe. This relatively new team is actively recruiting new members to join in engaging the poorest of the poor with the physical and spiritual hope of the gospel. Our location offers the perks of a large city and the excitement of a developing country. The ministry focus is church planting among the Roma of Albania, with ministry projects working on community health, children and adult education and possibilities for farming or business as mission.
Vienna is a beautiful, well developed, wealthy city but is denied the opportunities to hear and respond to the gospel of salvation through Jesus.There has been a religious tradition-bound to political authorities throughout Europe, largely focussed in Vienna, for centuries. This, together with prosperity, economic growth and modern cultural values has eroded trust in, and relevance of Christianity, leading to cynicism and misunderstanding of God’s salvation. It has generated an extremely resistant, sceptical society, ignorant of their need for the salvation offered by Jesus.
We need for churches to be planted and growing and national leaders emerging so that the local church would develop into a healthy, bible-centred, self-sustaining, replicating and national-led church.
But first, we need to make disciples!
We are convinced that although the gospel is unchanging, its presentation needs to be changing to meet people where they’re at. Gone are the days when people will attend a programme presented by the local church. We must connect with people where they are.
In seeking a culturally appropriate way of making contact with people with a view to the sharing of the Good News, we have found English ministry to be the most effective. This is being directed toward children’s, youth and adult-based ministries using English. At the centre of our focus is a recently founded English language centre; a friendly conversation-based English learning centre. We seek to find and take the God-given opportunities to present a Christian World-view to challenge our students to consider their views of the world, mankind and God.
If you’re interested in using English to engage people on eternally significant issues – to win them to Christ – then we’d love to hear from you.
Vienna is a melting-pot of cultures, languages, spirituality and people-groups. The Muslim population, currently about 10% of Vienna’s population, is growing fast.
One of the unreached people-groups of Vienna are the Albanian speaking immigrants. Having fled their home due to war or poverty, they hold on to the one thing they have; Islam. We have a small team with big demands; to reach out to these people with God’s love and his call to accept Jesus for salvation. We currently have a couple working specifically with Albanian-speakers who would value more workers.
There are other Muslims, too, with different backgrounds: Immigrants from Turkey, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Afghanistan, Iran, Syria, and the list goes on. What they do have in common, though, is the need to hear the message of Jesus in a way that they can understand and accept.
We’d love those with a heart to reach Muslims to help fill a need here and talk with us about how they could join us. Are you one of them?
Are you an experienced worker in ministry and looking how the Lord could use you in missions? Slovakia may be the answer. Current and new church leaders are in great need of mentors who have a passion to see churches mobilized for growth, outreach, and missions. Singles and couples, men and women, can all be used of the Lord to model and encourage leaders to follow Him and make more disciples. The harvest is plentiful but workers are needed.
Is the Lord calling you to the harvest in Slovakia?
Pioneers in Europe is praying for two Church Planting (CPM) teams in Marseille in the Southern PACA region of France. There is a need for a dynamic team of culturally and ethnically diverse individuals who will focus on CPM among the Muslim populations in the hard places in and around Marseille. These teams would work within the context of an existing fellowship of French Evangelical churches to reach Muslims for Christ and to see churches begun among these populations. These would include recent immigrants to French of ethnic origin and Muslim background.
These teams will require excellent French and Arabic language/culture skills and/or intensive training.
Is God calling you to be a light in Marseille, France?