The Basque Country consists of endless opportunities for ministry and we have a Launch Team to help you begin your work here.
Basque Country Launch Team
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.
Reach Refugees and Immigrants in Cardiff, United Kingdom
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.
Make Disciples in Northern Spain
Our team is looking for new team members with a servant heart and a passion to change the spiritual landscape of beautiful Asturias!
Leverage Your Passion and Skills to Reach the Nations in Madrid
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.
Engage the Nations in London
London is an impressive city, rich with history, culture, and opportunity. The diversity of people who live in this city make it a dynamic place to meet people from around the world. Many of the nearly 10 million Londoners were born outside of the United Kingdom but call this metropolis home.
London offers a unique experience for work, life, and the future. A 2011 census reveals about 40% of people living in London identify as Asian, Black, Mixed or another ethnic group. What if the nations who are already here were impacted by the gospel?
If reached they could have a lasting impact reaching their family, friends, and even those in their native country. People from every religious background and worldview are present in London. Often, they have never heard the gospel and do not have any friends who are bible-believing Christians.
The social needs in London are also great, with crime increasing and the income gap widening. There is an opportunity for Christians to contribute to this conversation in a powerful way. Believers in Jesus can demonstrate the way of Jesus, by seeking to put others before self with love.
The challenges are present in London, but so are the opportunities to see God’s kingdom grow. When people hear the truth and believe they can begin to understand who God is—that He made them for a relationship with Himself.
Consider the following opportunities to come alongside what God is doing in this city:
Engage the community: Come and work to develop relationships with Muslims and their children through English classes, music lessons, and community events.
Help to Plant a Church: New churches are being established in London and more are needed to share the love of God. Come learn how to plant a new church by working with others who are already here. Join a church planting training and see what God is able to do.
Reach the Unreached: Practice the art of sharing the gospel with a goal of developing a relationship in mind. Ask powerful questions and encourage people with the truth that God loves them. This is challenging, yet God is able to open hearts. He is able to use our obedience in sharing to bring about the miraculous.
Would you be willing to bring your passion, gifts, and experience to reach the nations in London?
Plymouth: City of Pilgrims, City of Gospel Opportunity
Once upon a time, to meet Syrians, Iranians, or any other group of people for that matter, it required traveling to their respective countries. In our increasingly globalised world, this is no longer the case. Today, people from many corners of the world are now living on our very own doorsteps. This is an especially exciting opportunity for the advancement of the gospel, which can now more easily be shared amongst unreached people groups, those previously with limited to no access to it. The southwest of the U.K. is one of these areas.
Four centuries ago, hundreds of Pilgrims boarded the Mayflower and set sail for the “New World”, arriving as immigrants to a foreign land. Today, immigrants from many corners of the world are arriving to the city the Pilgrims once departed from, Plymouth. Plymouth has become a receiving city for refugees and asylum seekers, a city of refuge for many displaced from their home countries. As a small city of about 260,000, these new people groups are becoming increasingly more visible amongst the Plymothian crowds. Though there are many practical resources and aid programs to help refugees, asylum seekers and their families, there is very little strategic focus from the local church community towards meeting their spiritual need of a Savior, Jesus the Messiah (Isa al’ Masih). Plymouth is arguably a couple of decades behind places like Manchester where a significant percentage of the population is from the Arab world, but imagine if the church in Plymouth and the southwest of the U.K. were equipped now to befriend their new foreign neighbors as more and more unreached people groups move into the area?
The vision for Plymouth and the southwest of the U.K. is to bridge the gap between the church and these unreached communities. Many local churches have a heart for the nations (Mt. 28:19-20), but lack the vision and resources to know how to bring the gospel across cultural and linguistic barriers. Our goal is to make friendships amongst the many unreached nations in our area whilst simultaneously coming alongside local churches to equip them to do the same. One statistic suggests that more than 80% of all non-Christians (this including Muslims, Buddhists, and Hindus) don’t even know a Christ-follower (Center of Study for Global Christianity). Imagine if local believers were intentionally pursuing cross-cultural friendships! By God’s grace and leading, this statistic could be made history.
In partnership with an international language school and a network of local churches, ministry partners and team members in the southwest of the U.K. will have opportunities to both make cross-cultural friendships amongst the refugee and asylum seeker communities and offer training and resources to local churches with hearts for the nations on their doorstep. Some outreach opportunities include leading English conversation clubs to refugees and asylum seekers, extending hospitality, and facilitating Discovery Bible Studies with spiritually interested people in their heart languages. Ideally, each partner or team member will also be actively involved in one of a number of local churches. Through these local church connections, partners and team members can then cast vision for the unreached nations on our doorstep, whilst offering various training and resources to equip the church to begin to make cross-cultural ministry an organic part of how the church functions, therefore, bridging the gap between the church and the unreached nations amongst us.
Is the Lord calling you to join Him in what He is doing here in the southwest of the U.K.? Are you ready to bridge the gap and help bring the gospel amongst people previously without access to it? Whether you want a short-term, long-term, gap year, or taster experience as you explore longer-term service, come to us! Get experience ministering in English, doing practical cross-cultural ministry outreach, pursue TESOL certification, supporting the local church, and join us in this exciting adventure the Lord has us on!
A Famine in the Land of St. Patrick
There is a famine far more severe than the loss of potatoes which has been making its way across the Emerald Isle for many decades. The land of St Patrick, home of rock band U2, is in need of Gospel seed to be sown among the many communities where a historical Catholic church has fallen into the background of tradition and culture, offering an unengaged path of religiosity through a distortion of the Scriptures.
While some of the larger cities, such as Dublin and Cork, have an evangelical presence, most of the country is without sufficient Gospel witness. In partnership with local networks such as Calvary Mission, we are engaged in church planting in various rural communities, especially in the West of Ireland. We work amongst real people, with real needs, who need a real Jesus displayed in the true Gospel.
As if the need for Gospel workers weren’t already great enough, recent changes in the requirements for a Minister of Religion visa have created new roadblocks against more laborers coming to these harvest fields. Currently, we are praying for those who have EU citizenship—and thus open access to enter and reside in Ireland—to ask the Lord if He might be calling them to be a fresh source of Gospel seed in the Emerald Isle!
In addition to engaging rural Irish, there are also opportunities to pioneer ministry amongst Irish Travellers (similar to Roma/Gypsies) as well as the growing Muslim populations in Ireland.
As the famous Breastplate Prayer of St Patrick says, we are seeking those who would come to engage in relational, incarnational evangelism, so that we might see Kingdom fruit…
Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me,
Christ in the mouth of everyone who speaks of me,
Christ in every eye that sees me,
Christ in every ear that hears me.
Related Links
https://calvarychurchballina.ie/
For a great article on the need for Gospel work in Ireland please read: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/reaching-ireland-christ/
Reach the Nations in London
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!
Videography and Photography Storyteller
Are you passionate about missions and church planting among the least reached people groups? Are you gifted in storytelling through videography and photography? If so, we would invite you to consider the Lord’s calling to join your passion and your gifts for the sake of the least reached people groups across Europe.
Pioneers in Europe is asking the Lord to provide a person or a team of gifted videographers and photographers to help tell the opportunities and the story of God’s work across the European continent. From Ireland to Greece, this calling would entail extensive travel across Europe working with local Pioneers teams to capture the story of God’s work and share the vision of Pioneers in Europe.
The ideal candidate would have some experience filming and producing short video stories, photography, and strong written communication skills, and interpersonal skills to work with teams. This position would require support raising.
To begin exploration of this role, fill out the form below and someone from our team will be in touch!
Reach the Poor, Oppressed, and Marginalized Roma People of Albania
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.
Reach out to Austrians with English
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.
Reach Muslim-Background People in Vienna
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?
Mentor Church Leaders in Slovakia
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?
Church Planting Movement (CPM) - Marseille, France
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?
Belgium Bruxelles/Liege - Church Planting Among Muslim Background People
Pioneers in Europe is praying for at least two church planting teams (CPM) to reach out to the Muslim background populations in urban areas. These teams would work within the context of an existing fellowship of Belgian Evangelical churches to reach Muslims for Christ and to see churches begun among these populations.
Do you have a vision to see Muslims reached for the Kingdom?
This will require excellent French and Arabic language/culture skills and/or intensive language training.
Lisbon, Portugal - Discipleship Ministry Opportunities
Jesus last command to His disciples before going back up to heaven was to “go and make disciples of all nations …” (Mt. 28:19-20). Today we rightly view this as Jesus mandate to His church. So if you desire to see those who don’t yet know Jesus come to know Him, and those who do already know Him come to love Him more and obey him more fully, then there are endless opportunities to do this in Portugal. If you have a heart for discipleship, then Portugal needs you.
You could be involved in discipleship in any number of ways, including in the local churches that are already established, through church planting initiatives, through theological education, or a combination of any or all of these. There are as many opportunities as there are people.
Bosnia and Herzegovina Launch Team
In anticipation of a new season of ministry, the Bosnia Launch Team seeks to mobilize, train, and launch a generation of disciple-makers who will play a vital role in changing the spiritual destiny of a nation. We are praying and thinking about the church in BiH 20 years from now and asking what it will take for the masses to have access to the gospel? We believe one of the answers is equipping the next generation of disciples and leaders in Bosnia with simple, sustainable, reproducible, and transferable ministry skills that will result in lasting spiritual fruit. We seek to launch a new wave of message-bearers that see themselves as incarnational catalysts who work effectively and intentionally to equip the next generation of Bosnian saints for the work of ministry in a way that can multiply many times over, in cooperation with local churches.
Our vision is to glorify God by helping to catalyze a Bosnian-shaped movement of disciples and churches in BiH, and among all the least-reached peoples of the former Yugoslavia.
A key component of our strategy is based on discovery-based disciple making movement (DMM) principles as a holistic paradigm for all aspects of ministry.
Nice, France - ESL or French Literacy Outreach for Muslim Background Peoples
Most people around the world think of Nice as a glamorous beach vacation destination, home to mansions, yachts, and movie stars. But Nice is also home to a significant Muslim population (France has the largest percentage of Muslims as compared to their total population in the EU). Nice is the second largest French city on the Mediterranean, after Marseilles, which is the most Muslim French city with a 20% Muslim population. The Joshua Project says that Nice is a “formerly or falsely reached” city.
Pioneers has a team working with Muslim background peoples in Nice, and they are currently looking for new team members to help them reach out to this community through teaching English and French, as well as initiating friendships and Discovery Bible Studies in the community.
Smiling Upon the Ismailis
A marginalised and often overlooked Islamic sect, the Shia Ismaili Muslims have their roots in North Africa, the Persian world, and India and are moving into western Europe. They have adopted London as one of their modern heartlands, home to a majority of the 14,000 Ismailis in the UK and featuring one of only 6 worldwide Ismaili centers and also their academic base, the Institute of Ismaili Studies. They have a public presence and well-established community…what they need is the Gospel. Are you being called to join those who have a vision to see the unreached Ismailis encounter the living Christ?