Volunteer Opportunities
The ways you can get involved are limited only by the gifts God has given you! This list has some examples. You can read through the entire list below, or use the filter to hone in on what is a good fit for you. Once you’re familiar with the different roles, click on the Apply button and let us know which you are interested in!
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Discussion facilitator
You serve a key position as a small group discussion facilitator for internationals during our weekly, in-home, dinner & discussions.
ESL Teacher / Co-Teacher
Teach English as a Second Language (ESL) to adult Internationals from all over the world so they can function more fully in the United States and ultimately experience the hope of eternal life. Don’t worry if you don’t have experience. As long as you can speak English and love internationals, we will train you, get you a co-teacher, and set you two up for success. with a small group of students who are on a specific level (from Beginner to Advanced). Curriculum provided.
ESL Assistant Teacher
To help ESL teachers as they teach and care for internationals in their class.
English language assessor
When students sign up for English classes, they need to be assessed in order to determine what level they should be in. When they are in a class that is a good fit for them, it helps them stay with us.
ESL Overall Ministry Leader
Come help us lead this popular ministry. In full disclosure: it won’t bring you fame & fortune (well, not in this life…).
ESL Overall Pedagogist
This technical expert must have formal ESL training. They work with the ESL Program Lead to help us ever work toward a quality level of English instruction. We are not primarily a secular English school, however, we do want to provide excellent value to our students.
ESL School Facility Host
Open the building as if it were your own home in order to provide a welcoming environment for the internationals who have come to learn English.
Social Media Administrator
Link’s social media channels and the rest of its digital marketing is primarily focused on those we are serving: internationals! So this person seeks to engage with existing and new internationals in the CSRA to serve them and encourage engagement in our activities. You will work with the Link Director and other leaders to help get direction for content and more detailed communication goals. We hope you have ideas, too! It will help if you have experience in this area (or at least like social media…). It also doesn’t hurt if you’re not afraid to try new things. Our international friends are not always on the same channels that we are!
Video / creative media
There are so many amazing stories that our international friends have. We have a few ourselves since we love to showcase what we see God doing. Would you help us tell those stories? Video is great, but it doesn’t have to be limited to that. You would work with our Director, Social Media Coordinator, and others.
Database assistant
In order to love well we need to keep their information straight. In this role you can help us do that.
Social Events Coordinator
In this role you can come up with ideas for social events that meet the needs of all those we serve or just those in a particular group.
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Servant leadership
There are many needs for servant leadership on our team: discipling, coaching, strategic leadership, and more.
Websites Editor
Our websites help us to communicate with and care for our volunteers and the internationals we serve. You can help us keep them up to date so we can do that well!
Crafts
Serve through hand-made gifts and teaching opportunities.
Link Policies Developer
There are a lot of moving pieces in our ministry and we want to make sure we love well, not only by obeying the law, but going beyond that to the “law of love” in scripture with good ethical practices. We need someone who doesn’t mind details and who can think with prevention in mind.
Print Communication
Serve and connect internationals and volunteers through printed material
Digital Communications Strategist
Provide strategic advice for Link’s digital communication strategies.
ESL Class Observer
If you are open to helping in our ESL program, why not come and watch to see what a class is like? You can do this once or as often as you’d like.
Listener
We need lots of feedback from our volunteers and those we serve in order to love well. In this role you can help us in getting this feedback. Don’t worry, we can make it easy.
Prayer walking
Pray on site with insight.
Host / co-host a meal
If you would like to help our international friends experience the gospel through hospitality, this is for you. And don’t worry, it can be a team sport… you don’t have to do it alone.
Paper or presentation review
Help a non-native English speaker by reviewing a professional document or presentation.
Discipleship Coach
Discipleship coaching is prayerful, intentional questioning, listening, and feedback in order to help equip as a discipler the one being coached.
ESL School Leader
ESL is the primary means by which Link connects with and serves internationals in our area. The two ESL School Leaders lead the morning & evening ESL schools, supporting volunteers and leading them to serve the students well, for their salvation, our greater joy, and God’s greater glory. As leader of a school, the buck stops here for all areas of ministry. Assistant School Leader has only some of the responsibilities as School Leader.
One-time Social Event Planner
At Link, we value relationships! And group social activities are a great context for those to form, and a non-threatening way for our international friends to join us.
Director / Assistant Director
Lead International Link to accomplish its vision & mission.
Military Ministry Prayer Catalyzer
Nurture a culture of prayer in Link’s military ministry.
Augusta University Ministry Prayer Catalyzer
Nurture a culture of prayer in Link’s ministry to those at Augusta University.
ESL Ministry Prayer Catalyzer
Nurture a culture of prayer in Link’s ESL ministry.
Discipleship Ministries Prayer Catalyzer
Nurture a culture of prayer in Link’s discipleship ministry.
Augusta University Ministry Servant-Leadership Team
Provide leadership for our ministry to internationals at Augusta University and the AU staff that support them.
Support Leader
Provide leadership for the behind-the-scenes support structures that enable our ministry to internationals.
Virtual Furniture Donations Coordinator
Provide for internationals in need by coordinating furniture available for donation.
Hospitality Leader
Provide leadership for Link as we seek to give internationals among us the opportunity to experience the grace of God through hospitality and other expressions of the free grace of God.
Discipleship Ministries Servant-Leadership Team
Lead Link’s more organic ministries to provide pre-discipleship and discipleship experiences for those we serve.
ESL Substitute Teacher
Teach English as a Second Language (ESL) to adult Internationals from all over the world so they can function more fully in the United States and ultimately experience the hope of eternal life. Don’t worry if you don’t have experience. As long as you can speak English and love internationals, we will train you, get you a co-teacher, and set you two up for success. with a small group of students who are on a specific level (from Beginner to Advanced). Curriculum provided.
Hosting an international
Some of the richest experiences we have are just spending time with our international neighbors. And there are many opportunities for inviting them into your home.
Assistant discussion facilitator
Help a Discussion Facilitator as they lead a small group discussion.
ESL School Servant-Leadership Team
Come help us lead this popular ministry. In full disclosure: it won’t bring you fame & fortune (well, not in this life…).
ESL School Welcome Desk / Receptionist
To welcome people as Christ and make sure new students are not missed.
Care and Refugee Team
Be a part of a team that serves the physical and administrative needs of refugees and other internationals in the Augusta.
Care and Refugee Ministries Coordinator
Coordinate the team that provides mercy ministry support to Refugees and other internationals among us.
Child Care
Meeting the needs of children can help meet the needs of their parents. Sometimes the children are even the ones who influence their parents to participate with us.
ESL School Child Care Coordinator
By serving the needs of children we actually serve whole families. But we must do so in a way that is safe for all involved. This coordination role helps to ensure we have quality child care workers in place.
ESL Student Registration
Registration is not just an administrative necessity. It is important for several reasons: helps them have “skin in the game,” gives them the opportunity to engage in activities that are even more spiritually intentional, helps us know them, and helps them not fall through the cracks.
ESL School Events Support
One of our goals for our ESL ministry is to create a context for friendship. Social events are a great context to do that.
ESL School Facility Coordinator
You coordinate for the space for ESL School; you provide the place where we hope to see the Spirit work. This is not the same as the ESL School Host volunteer who actually sets it up. This role is purely administrative and could even be done remotely.
ESL School New Student Integration
It can be scary for our new students when they first come to class. Even those who are confident need to be connected relationally and set up for success. You help them in this way.
All Link Roles that Interact with Internationals
Any Link role that interacts with an international has a responsibility to honor Christ and serve well with other members of Link.