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The path to volunteering with International LinkWe are delighted that you are considering serving internationals alongside us.
Here’s how to get started…
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Prayerfully look for “fit”
We believe that the wise Lord of the harvest is also the giver of gifts to His people. We love to look for those areas of “fit” where your gifts, interests, and experience overlap with the opportunities to serve internationals here in Augusta.
You can explore existing opportunities before or after you apply. Durnig the application process, you’ll be able to share more about your interests, experience, and gifting. You can even tell us your dream role! If you want to explore opportunities before you apply, click the orange button…
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Volunteer application
We are a faith based organization, so we take this step to help ensure you and we can be true to who we are. It also helps us care for those we serve.
When you’re ready, click the purple button (you can save and come back later to finish if you need to).
Prayer team
Relying on God and not ourselves
We ask that all new Link volunteers raise up a prayer team of at least 2 people who will commit to pray for you regularly (daily is ideal, but weekly is sufficient). You’ll keep them up to date with prayer requests and answers to prayer as frequently as you want.
“Wow… this feels like I’m going on a missions trip.”
Exactly!
“Why make it such a big deal?”
Most importantly, because God makes prayer a priority through His word. In a developed country like ours, it’s easy to rely on our “resources” instead of God. But in Link, prayer is our first work and our main work. The spiritual warfare and worldview and family obstacles are very real and life is too short to labor in our own strength.
“I’m not sure how to ask people to pray for me.”
We can help!
Train
A blessing to you & others
Once you’re approved to serve with us and have your prayer team in place, it’s time to get equipped!
“Why do I need to be equipped? I’ve already been in cross-cultural ministry for a hundred years!”
To serve cross-culturally means we will always be learners because we will never be insiders. So being a cross-cultural worker means to never stop learning. A sad thread in the history of missions includes those who – through ignorance or pride – rush into cross-cultural service and actually do more harm than good. We want to leverage the many mistakes we and others have made so that additional international friends and neighbors don’t also have to suffer through them.
However, we bet you’ve experienced bad training. So we work hard to make our training:
- a benefit to you: short, interactive, & application focused
- a benefit to those we serve: we don’t want you to be another cross-cultural servant who does more harm than good
- a benefit to our team: we want to leverage your experience, abilities, & insights to help us solve real challenges we’re facing