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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Chaplain, Jul 12, 2022-May 31, 2023, Pohnpei SDA School, Micronesia
Music Teacher, Jul 12, 2022-May 31, 2023, Delap SDA School, Marshall Islands
Principal, ASAP-Jun 30, 2024, Kosrae SDA School, Micronesia
Principal, Jul 12, 2022-May 31, 2024, Delap SDA School, Marshall Islands (Majuro/Delap)
Principal, Jul 12, 2022-May 31, 2024, Chuuk SDA School, Micronesia
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Duties: Supervise a small one-room, home-school-style SDA mission elementary school classroom on the Navajo Indian Reservation, using Griggs International Academy curriculum.
Assist with other church-connected children's ministry activities in the local church as time and schedule allows.
Function as an active participant in the mission campus community and in the local church.
Experience Required: Elementary school teaching experience.
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Duties: Provide well-prepared spiritual/ educational/recreational learning activities for a variable-sized group while their parents/caregivers are attending a Twelve-Step addiction recovery meeting. Invite/motivate children and their families to participate in church-related activities such as home Bible studies, Sabbath services, Pathfinder Club. Follow up with children/families by text, phone, or visitation.
Experience Required: Previous experience working with children, such as summer camp, VBS, Sabbath School.
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Top Things I Had/Needed . . .
Last month we polled the volunteers before they returned home to tell us what were the top 3-5 items they were glad they had with them (or wished they had brought) to their mission site. Here are their responses. If you are preparing to deploy to one of these locations, you might want to expand your packing list! :
Brennan Katsuren, Guam
1. Waterproof bag
2. A GoPro or water camera
3. Social Security card for driver’s license
4. Really dark glasses, category 4 if possible,
Christian Barrera, Hawaii
I wished I had brought with me:
1. Family
2. Car
3. Friends
Jordan Magakat, Kosrae
1. A portable speaker
2. Bug spray/wipes
3. A good pair of slippers you can take anywhere
4. Hammock
5. Underwater flashlight (for night fishing)
Benji Rangel, Pohnpei
Things that I was very thankful to have with me
1. My best friend
2. A raincoat
3. My Bible
4. Packages from friends and families
5. Wi-Fi to communicate with my friends and family
Jeniffer Peña, Pohnpei
1. Sunscreen
2. A hammock
3. Hiking shoes
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Photo credit: Jeremy Bishop on Unsplash. |
Memola D. Satoshi, Ebeye SDA School
I wished I had brought with me:
1. School supplies
2. Ready-to-go food
3. More clothes
Tre Smith, Palau (High School math teacher)
Top things I had/needed:
1. Disposable camera to capture memories
2. Air Pods
3. Basketball shoes
4. Hammock
5. Sunscreen
Garett Lee, Majuro
1. Hammock
2. Basketball shoes
3. Reusable water bottle/hydro flask
4. Chess set (Brought this on a whim but my students pulled this out of my desk every free period they had!)
5. Guitar (The extra baggage fees on airlines might be kind of expensive but the school actually reimbursed me for it. The older kids love to play it and the younger kids really like to sing with live instruments.)
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My Experience with AWR
By Brennan Katsuren
For my missionary stint, I worked at Adventist World Radio (AWR) as an engineer on the island of Guam. As an engineer for AWR, I wasn’t in the field teaching students or helping in the schools with medical care, so seeing the impact of my work was a little different. The radio station would broadcast primarily through short-wave to the hard-to-reach places like China, Russia, Philippines, and Indonesia, to name a few. Around that same time, I was at the station when the revival in the Philippines happened because of AWR (See: AWR360° Philippines – From Guns to Bibles | Miracle Story - Bing video), and it’s really cool to see an indirect effect of my work there.
My main job was to monitor the equipment to make sure the signal went out night and day so nations all around the world could hear the Gospel. One of the things that this entailed was building parts via welding and all other types of fabrication. I was able to make a container for the new AM station that we installed to broadcast to the nearby islands. I also helped fabricate a new jig system to build new towers that will be installed the next dry season. One of my fondest memories while on Guam was going
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What is Vivid Faith?
By Ernest Hernandez
One of the most-asked questions from our field has been Who or What is this new system called “Vivid Faith” (or VF as I call it)? If you were keeping up with the GC Session you probably saw their promotional videos. After about 5 years of development, VF is now fully operational. So, what is VF? It is a new system that was designed to replace the AVS (Adventist Volunteer Service) system, formerly used to process all of our long-term volunteer deployments. Today these volunteers are now able to look for and apply for opportunities on VF.
What make VF unique? Vivid Faith was designed with the volunteer in mind. Too often volunteers feel uncomfortable with all the “paperwork” needed to get him/her through the process. In addition, VF also wanted to make the process as efficient as possible. At NAD Office of Volunteer Ministries, we have offered some suggestions on how that process can become, not just efficient, but an even more effective vetting tool. We are confident that our partnership with VF can and will allow us to grow, perhaps exponentially, as more missionary volunteers find the process more “user friendly”, effective and efficient. With our eyes set on the great commission “Go, therefore and make disciples of all nations…” Ultimately, this is our lasting prayer.
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Ernest Hernandez is the Director of the North American Division Office of Volunteer Ministries. |
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The Closed Borders that God Opened Wide
By Enock Migiro
“Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence so that we may receive mercy and grace to help us in our time of need,” Hebrews 4:16.
“For grace, you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is a gift from God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast,” Ephesians 2: 8-9.
Living in the Marshall Islands, there’s so much to be grateful for! But one of the most fabulous things to be thankful for is the blessing of enjoying a Covid-19-free country with zero cases since the first case was reported in Wuhan in 2019. As a result, the country has enjoyed mask-free worship, shopping, games, learning, and many more areas that had restrictions during the pandemic. As part of the country’s measures to control and keep Marshall Islands Covid-19 free, the borders were shut for anyone to enter, and the only way to get in was through a one-month quarantine which involved 14 days in Hawaii and 14 days in Kwajalein with a test done weekly before one is let into the community after receiving a negative Covid-19 tests.
The greatest challenge for teachers, government officials, and private entities was getting their experts and personnel into the country. The repatriation process is quite thorough, and it takes patience since they can only bring in a maximum of two or three
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Many of our volunteers serve in parts of the world where books, literature and printed material are not readily available. If you or your church have doctrinal books, Spirit of Prophecy books, or unused Sabbath School Quarterlies or papers (such as My Little Friend, Primary Treasure, or Junior Guide) that you are not using, please consider mailing them to one of the churches or schools on this list: Requests for Literature. |
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