Are you interested in giving your life away here in the dirt in Sudan on a more permanent basis? Wow! We’d sure like to hear from you.
There is a little long term process we follow. It is pretty simple. Here are the basics in barely any particular order.
- Come on a short term trip and get to know us. Fill out the form on that page. Please make sure you tell us you are interested in longer term service in the nice text block area as you are answering the questions there.
- Attend and complete Harvest School in Mozambique, Iris’s two and a half month long portal of amazing equipping for missions and life in God’s upside down Kingdom. (Check with the school leadership about availability of an extended outreach to Sudan. Usually one school a year is running these.)
- Interview with the Iris long term committee. While they do not make the final decisions for our bases in Sudan, we do lean heavily on their wisdom and insight. (This happens at the end of Harvest School usually)
- Interview with Michele (ie catch a cup a coffee with her when you visit or a phone call and chat a bit.)
- Pretty please don’t sell your house, give away your life savings, buy your ticket or make any radical life adjustments planning to join us until you get our little letter of invitation. Then you can prepare with confidence and let loved ones know where you are going with a bit more certainty.
Our accommodation space is a bit limited at present and we are really focused on building our base teams, so we are looking for those coming with:
- a humble teachable spirit
- a heart to love our people and to learn and honor the beautiful things God has put in our culture
- a gracious positive attitude with changing circumstances
- extreme flexibility especially over things like personal comfort and privacy
- the ability to honor leadership and be a team player
- the desire to love our children and staff and spend time with them
- a spiritual grid that is hungry for Jesus and open to all of His Kingdom
- practical skill area (admin, media, education, medical, building, etc.) that fills a current need on one of our bases.
- a willingness to trust God for all your needs to be met and have some minimum preparations in place before you come (that all comes AFTER the letter of invitation)
Most missionaries start on our main Yei base before moving deeper in just as we are all still getting to know one another.
We are thrilled if you feel God has spoken about a specific area of ministry or service. Please tell us all about it! But also realize what you sense needs to fit in somewhere to what God has been speaking to our leadership as well for us to move forward on it. And if it is a new pioneering project area, you might need to trust Jesus for the resources to implement it.
We are a faith mission which means no missionary here receives a salary and we all trust Jesus for the entirety of our personal and often our project area’s support. Lots more details to share, but these are enough to get you started! We are delighted to begin to get to know you and see where this journey leads.
If you have any questions, please, you are always welcome to drop us an email.
