The following opportunities are just a portion of all the openings available on the Office of Volunteer Ministries database. To view all opportunities, click here.
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1st Grade Teacher, Jul 12, 2022-May 31, 2023, Yap SDA School Federated States of Micronesia (Yap)
3rd Grade Teacher, Jul 12, 2022-May 31, 2023, Chuuk SDA School, Federated States of Micronesia
(Chuuk)
4th Grade Teacher, Jul 1, 2022-Jun 1, 2023, Ebeye SDA School, Marshall Islands (Kwajalein/Ebeye)
States
Chaplain, Jul 31, 2022-Jun 6 2024, Palau SDA Elementary School, Palau
Northern Mariana Islands (Saipan)
Dean of Men, Aug 1, 2022-June 3, 2023, Shenandoah Valley Academy, United States
Evangelist, ASAP-May 1, 2025, Gambella Field Station, Ethiopia
Guest Services, Aug 1, 2022-Aug 31, 2023, Bogenhofen Seminary, Austria
Micronesia (Chuuk)
Northern Mariana Islands (Saipan)
Principal, May 31, 2022-Jun 1 2026, Guam Adventist Academy, Guam
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Through Their Eyes: KOREA |
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PHOTO COLLAGE by Crosby Lambert |
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Living in Korea as a teacher has been an adventure! I immersed myself in the culture, tried incredible food, and became an educator. I taught five and seven-year-olds English in each subject. My co-workers-turned-friends, helped me adjust to the school and the city of Cheonan. Overall, I would recommend this opportunity to anyone considering living abroad. My experience was a blessing; I would definitely come back and teach. |
This is one of my students who loves to give hugs! |
Friends and I dressed in our honboks (traditional
Korean dress) to celebrate the Lunar New Year.
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My students and I went to a Play Park for a field trip. |
Me in Busan on a solo trip. I am standing on the
Oryukdo Skywalk over the ocean.
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Students and teachers surprised me with a birthday cake. |
I am standing in front of this traditional palace in Seoul. |
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Experience Your World!
By Maria Shajiei
One of the things I love to do when I have a bit of free time is go exploring. My Lebanese friends tell me I've seen more places than them as I fearlessly hop on public buses and let them take me where they will. Now that I have a car, I have a little more flexibility and one of the places I'd been longing to go to was Tripoli up north. Tripoli is a predominantly Sunni Muslim city and I had only passed through it a couple of times before but never stopped to properly experience its flavour. When a long holiday weekend came up we knew we had our opportunity, so off we went. Our first stop was at the 100-year-old Akra restaurant known for its foul and hummus dishes. The food came fast and each dish was piled high with fried nuts and served with a mezze of fresh vegetables, olives and bread. After buying half a kilo of roasted salted sunflower seeds still in their hull, we headed towards the bazaar. Tripoli has 9 different bazaars all
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Who, Me?
By Samel DePaula
Have you ever wanted to be famous? Well, not me! But that’s what I got when I arrived at FADBA (Bahia Adventist College) in Bahia, Brazil. Everybody knew about me! To many Brazilians, traveling abroad (especially to North America), is a dream that is very common among young aspiring college students, yet seldom realized. So when a foreigner, like myself, comes from North America, everyone wants to socialize. As tiring as this might be for some (including myself), it is undoubtedly a God-given opportunity to share Jesus and be a witness to those who may not know of His amazing character.
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An "Agape Force"
By Ernest Hernandez
One local conference gives birth to another in a remote place in Central America. Another conference uses 500 short-term missionaries to reach all 12,000 of its members in one year. What do they have in common? It’s the strength of Short-term Missions…an agape force. Call it what you will. It’s an evangelistic force of love for the world that cannot be ignored.
Several years ago we surveyed the North American Division and asked our universities and conferences how many participants they were deploying into the mission field, whether domestic or international. On a yearly basis (not including the work of ACS) we registered almost 11,000 participants and around 400 mission projects. We believe that’s not even close to the true numbers.
Unfortunately, many trips occur without anyone’s knowledge…except for the local conference. And even at that, some conferences lamented that they are not even aware of who’s deploying and who is not. Our sister divisions will sometimes inform us that they are unaware of those “NAD folks” who enter their mission territories without coordinating with their local evangelistic efforts.
There is a happy solution to this challenge, however. It is called the Volunteer Service Request. This “online form” when filled out is registered at our office and forwarded to the General Conference so that you may inform the receiving division/union/conference that your mission group is heading their way. While this may not seem too important, if things go sideways (terrorist activity, political instability, natural disasters or emergency evacs) having that coordination can possibly make the difference between life and death.
God has given us the ability to reach and impact the world…together; to witness a mission of love; an agape force…11,000 and growing. Lately I’ve been hearing of churches, conferences, unions and universities working together to achieve a common goal in close collaboration with our sister partners around the world. The impact is truly amazing.
We encourage you to go to our website at https://mtc.hesaidgo.org and look at the Mission Trip Connector. Among other useful features, this is what the North American Division uses as its volunteer service request so that we may join our God-given abilities to meet the needs of the world…together.
Ernest Hernandez is the Director of the North American Division Office of Volunteer Ministries.
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Love As Jesus Loved
By Stephanie Thomas
“When I heard about the calling to work as a Task Force worker at the Adventist Elementary school in Hawaii, I thought that I would be telling kids about a Jesus they already know. However, shortly after arriving I found out that most of the students that attend the school are not Adventist and some aren’t even Christian. That’s when I had a realization of what my mission at this school is: I need to love each child like Jesus loves. Now, every day, I wake up and I pray that I can be a representation of Jesus and that these children can see Him through the love I share with them. “
“I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their work; that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me,” John 17: 20-21. NKJV
Stephanie Thomas is a teacher’s aide at the Mauna Loa School in Hilo, Hawaii.
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Photo credit: Stephanie Thomas |
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