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Papua New Guinea is the land of the unexpected, the least explored country on Earth! It has 1,361 islands - 291 of which are inhabited - 800 known languages, and 7 million people. 84% of the population live in rural areas and villages located in mountains, jungles, rivers and along the coast. These beautiful landscapes can make it extremely difficult to receive adequate healthcare as islands without airports and shorelines with no roads or bridge access make it nearly impossible to get in.

In Papua New Guinea, 5 women die in childbirth every day, one of the highest rates in the world. Other public health stats that demonstrate the concerning effects of such lack of access to quality healthcare include 1 in 13 children die before the age of 5, someone dies of tuberculosis every two hours, and there is only 1 dentist for every 100,000 people.

One ministry has pioneered an innovative solution to meet this need in the name of Christ. This ministry uses medically equipped ships to reach isolated islands and remote shoreline villages through healthcare and the gospel of Jesus. Along with medical services, their medical ships also bring hope, mercy and God's love. They desire for these isolated communities to know they are not forgotten; they are seen and heard by a loving God.

After a few months of initial training, Goers will live on board the medical ship or on land at a missionary base in Madang, PNG for 6-9 months at a time and spend 2-3 months resting, recovering, training, and serving administratively at the Hawaii home base in between outreach trips. During the travel season, the ship makes transformation visits to different isolated communities every 1-2 weeks.

The Community Outreach Leader is a key team member of what we do! They are organizing and leading the young people doing their missions training to engage the community through worship, bible stories, gospel presentation, Jesus Film presentation, clean water projects, health education sessions, sharing testimonies, visiting local schools, organizing Bible distribution and prayer. This role is vital for our teams to engage every person that comes to the clinics to receive more than medicine to have an encounter with Jesus!

The Goer will have responsibilities from Monday through Friday.

The Community Outreach Leader connects with the incoming outreach leaders, does an orientation, organizes the activities to be carried out during the outreach, organizes the day (schedule), facilitates the outreach activities, collects stats, goes over the resources to request more supplies, reports weekly to the Ship Management Team and makes sure the teams are there doing ministry!

In addition to fulfilling the role and job duties, the Goer will also carry God's presence on board and in every interaction with our national volunteers. There are ample opportunities to minister and disciple others, through prayer meetings, community meetings, devotionals and supporting the leadership team on board.

Skills:

People skills, ability to organize and delegate tasks, able to be a team player, ability to communicate cross culturally, leadership, adaptability, flexibility, problem solver, self motivated, comfortable to work with children and youth teams.

Placement Details

Status:
Open
Language:
Positions:
2
Start cycles:
Fall
Winter
Location:
Papua New Guinea
Genders:
Both
Reference number:
12895706

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