Become a Volunteer or
Missionary
Let's Serve the Bahamas and the World
Seventh-day Adventists Making a Difference Around the World
ould
you like to travel around the world helping others? Or would you like
to travel far away to a
strange country using your talents to enrich the lives of others if only for
a few weeks? You can do it. Whether you are a teacher, carpenter, mason,
electrician, computer technician, pastor, nurse, doctor, medical
technologist, tile layer, tailor, dress maker, business person, bread maker
or have very little skills but a big heart, you can be an Adventist
missionary volunteer.
There have been a few Bahamians in the past who have served as student
missionaries abroad. Tamera Carey served as a student missionary in Korea
and Nioka Collie served in Haiti.
The
Adventist Church encourages its members to become involved in sharing their
talents and skills to help others in needs. Hence there are several
volunteer or missionary organizations that are working together in helping
those in need and spreading the gospel. Note that some of the organization
below or owed and operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Others are
owned and operated by Adventist lay organizations. In the
Bahamas we are rich with talented Adventist Christian people who can serve
the world. Scroll below and click and explore. Choose and serve.
Become a missionary volunteer.
Adventists
Serving Abroad Click here to see Adventist Bahamians working or
volunteering around the world in Adventist institutions or lay missionary
organizations.
Adventist
Volunteer Bahamas
A ministry of the Bahamas
Conference of Seventh-day Adventists where skilled Adventist volunteers
build churches and schools for the conference. We also want to
encourage Adventists living in The Bahamas to travel the world sharing their
talents. The experience gained abroad will enrich our church at home.
Adventist
Volunteer Service
This is an official organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church which
has as it mission is to assist the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the
proclamation of the gospel to all peoples through the ministry of Adventist
Volunteers, matching talents, gifts, resources and professional expertise
with defined needs. The kinds of volunteer service jobs available can
include teaching, building, nursing, administration, preaching, and lots
more. Click on the link and explore.
Maranatha
Volunteers International
This is an
organization owned and operated by Adventist laypersons. The focus of
Maranatha Volunteers International is the building of Adventist Churches and
Schools around the world. If you would like to lend your talents or skills
click on the link and explore. Maranatha Volunteers came to The Bahamas at
least three times. They built the Bahamas Academy Gym in the early 1980s.
Adventist
Frontier Missions.
This is a Seventh-day
Adventist Christian lay ministry dedicated to establishing church-planting
movements among people groups with no Adventist presence. If you desire to
serve as a lay preacher, pastor, teacher, then explore the website.
Adventist
Mission is
the official program of the Adventist Church that promotes our missionary
work around the world.
Adventist
World Aviation
Adventist World Aviation (AWA) site. AWA exists to provide aviation and
communications support to those serving at mission posts in Alaska, Guyana,
Phillipines, and Sudan.
Global
Partnerships
This is a new Adventist
mission program for professionals. Global Partnerships encourages, trains
and offers spiritual support to people willing to live abroad for the
purpose of witnessing, using their profession or vocation as a platform for
evangelism. It recruits, trains, maintains and offers spiritual
support to people willing to live abroad for the purpose of witnessing,
using their profession or vocation as a platform for discipling new
Christians.
HeSaidGo.net,
is the official Missionary Volunteer website for the Seventh-day Adventist
Church in North America. Based in the denomination's Office of the
Secretariat, we are carrying out the responsibility of networking the
leadership of many volunteer ministries, linking Adventist churches,
schools, and supportive organizations toward common goals in outreach. I
encourage you to join the movement and to inspire others to do likewise.
Outpost
Centers International
The history of OCI
begins with a vision. That vision involves thousands of lay people
developing ways to extend God’s work in this world. It sees an army of young
adults trained, dedicated and committed to sharing the gospel in ways that
are both practical and relevant. The vision pictures health, educational,
and evangelistic centers being located in country settings, but impacting
metropolitan centers.
Reach
International REACH is an international children's charity
located in Berrien Springs, Michigan. REACH International exists to Render
Effective Aid to Children to provide food, shelter, love, education, and a
chance for eternity to the abandoned and destitute children of the world.
Seventh-day
Adventist Language School
is an official church organization that is operated under the supervision of
the Korean Union Conference and the General Conference. All missionary
applicants go through screening done by the General Conference volunteer
services and through their home division.
So
you want to be a missionary?
The Secretariat Department of the General Conference of Seventh-day
Adventists is responsible for coordinating the Church's missionary work
worldwide. It is currently recruiting qualified individuals and families who
are interested in serving either as career or volunteer missionaries.
Andrews
University Current Student Missionaries. See the map. Click on each red bubble to see name
of student and location where he or is serving.
Southern Adventis
t
University Southern Adventist University is committed to preparing
students for a life of service for Christ. One of the organizations that has
become a cornerstone for enhancing the university’s strong spiritual life is
the Student Missions program. Since its conception, the program has expanded
from sending one SM in 1967 to currently sending from 70 to 130 students to
locations all around the world every year.
NAPS The
National Association for the Prevention of Starvation (NAPS) is a 501(c)3
non-profit volunteer relief organization founded in 1978 and registered
in the state of Alabama in 1993. Its mission is to mitigate hunger,
poverty, and disease, and to improve education and food security among
suffering people, both nationally and internationally, regardless of race,
religion, or nationality. The organization provides humanitarian aid and
educational support in the areas of: emergency relief, skilled volunteers,
healthcare professionals, agricultural technology, and social and spiritual
comfort. The organization operates independently of all governmental,
institutional, or political influences.
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