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Wondering how you can use your skills, degree, or career overseas? Curious about tentmaking or business-as-mission? Missionaries describe the vast ways to use your God-given talents and experience to expand His Kingdom.
Using Your Existing Skills
How do overseas healthcare missionaries find others to care for their patients when they leave for home assignment?
“Best Case Scenario: Work On A Team!” The question assumes...
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Can medical missionaries self-support through a telemedicine job or some paid shifts while back in their home country?
“The Easy Answer Is ’It Depends!’” There are several different...
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I’m just beginning university and I’m interested in healthcare. How could I use overseas physical therapy, occupational therapy, pharmacy, community development, or public health?
“We can use many specialities.” Answer from Sharon, an RN...
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What training do you recommend for a future tentmaker?
“Here’s a course and a workbook.” Looking for a curriculum...
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What kind of opportunities are there for pilots, airplane mechanics, and other aviation specialists to serve in missions?
“Look into these ministries.” Here are several ministries that serve...
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What is the most needed medical specialty on the mission field?
“Midwives are needed.” Midwives are needed in most medical mission...
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What could I do with a business degree in missions overseas?
“Society needs the redemptive influence of Christians in the public...
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What are tentmaking, business as mission, and business for transformation all about? Are they all the same thing?
“Understand the somewhat different (and evolving) approaches to combining business...
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To teach English overseas should I get a master’s degree or a certificate?
“It depends on which country you will serve.” This depends...
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My son is pursuing a degree in computer science. Is there a need for this in the mission field?
“Technology can bring the gospel where a missionary can’t.” Today...
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Is there a mission organization that can use my experience as a police officer?
“There’s a ministry for everything!” I encourage you to check...
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I’ve graduated in a professional field. How much theological training do I need to serve in missions?
“Depends on how you will use your time and what...
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I’m just beginning university and I’m interested in healthcare. Do you recommend I become a physician, nurse, nurse practitioner, or physician’s assistant?
“Spend a few days with an MD and an RN...
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I’m interested in becoming a missionary midwife. What kind of opportunities are there for midwives? What training do I need?
“We have a training opportunity for missionary midwives at Kona,...
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I’m in nursing. Should I get further training in community health, home health, pediatrics, or obstetrics, etc? Should I get a master’s degree? Should I get hospital experience here before I go overseas?
“Get a BSN and a year of hospital experience.” All...
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I’m a resident physician. Should I get more clinical experience here before I go overseas? What about an MPH? Should I do a fellowship in infectious disease? Can a physician be “too” trained?
“Yes, you can have too much formal training!” You probably...
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