What are the responsibilities and job description for the Agriculturist / Church Planter-Senegal position at World Team?
Use your experience and training in agriculture to do church planting that holistically ministers to the people of Senegal. Share the gospel with those that you connect with and help them to grow spiritually.
Model, teach, and promote agricultural practices (of crops and/or animals) that improve communities’ diet, productivity, and financial position.
Are you interested in forming discipleship relationships through agriculture? We are looking for people with agricultural training and experience to join our holistic church planting teams working in Senegal.
This role will benefit the spiritual, physical, and economic well-being of local communities. Working collaboratively, the ideal candidate will provide expertise in various agricultural or animal husbandry practices, including input to generate economic benefit that may be derived after implementation of these methods.
The ideal candidate will have
Model, teach, and promote agricultural practices (of crops and/or animals) that improve communities’ diet, productivity, and financial position.
Are you interested in forming discipleship relationships through agriculture? We are looking for people with agricultural training and experience to join our holistic church planting teams working in Senegal.
This role will benefit the spiritual, physical, and economic well-being of local communities. Working collaboratively, the ideal candidate will provide expertise in various agricultural or animal husbandry practices, including input to generate economic benefit that may be derived after implementation of these methods.
The ideal candidate will have
- Training or experience in Muslim ministry, evangelism, and discipleship
- A heart to focus on the spiritual journey of people while addressing their physical realities
- Training or experience in an agricultural domain (such as animal husbandry or growing crops), and a willingness and ability to adapt that to the local realities.
- An internship with the Beersheba Project in Senegal will provide local skills as part of onboarding.
- Good language learning skills
- Grit: Ability to live in a challenging environment. Senegal is hot and dry for half the year, while in the rainy season, the desert blooms, but travel becomes more difficult. Many of the comforts of the developed world are nonexistent, intermittent, or expensive. However, the unreached people are very hospitable, and the government is appreciative of missionaries.
- Learn the local language to facilitate deep interpersonal relationships with an unreached people group.
- Collaborate well with teammates and national church missionaries and leaders to develop strong relationships with an unreached people group as a platform for sharing the gospel.
- Develop good relationships with local leaders to learn about local challenges and needs, modeling potential improvements to current practices.
- Partner well with NGOs and government officials to promote helpful agricultural programs within their local sphere of influence. An intermediate level of French will be needed to accomplish this.