Ministry in Canada

The ministry opportunities are endless! Some of the key focus areas are:

• Coach church as a focused community development.
  • These are some possibilities:
    • Help church envision and develop leadership for outreach to people in the margins.
    • Coach church in an effective ministry to adults (ESL, life-skills) and children (homework clubs and in-home tutoring).
    • Teach churches how to engage in cross-cultural relationships.
    • Mentor and counsel marginalized youth.
• Prepare and deliver Gospel messages for marginalized community.
• Lead the church in an exegesis of the community.
• Engage with SIM Canada Field team and administration. SIM Canada Field will provide coaching and mentoring as needed. Engage with SIM Canada Field team and administration.

Required training: Solid biblical foundations.

Recommended Experience: At least 1-2 years of experience in a non-Christian culture, familiarity with secular thinking and social intricacies of communities doing life in close quarters , for example in apartment complex buildings. Hospitality could be a key factor in making in-roads into these communities.

Personality Issues/ Cultural Considerations: Needed Character: Spiritual passion and purpose for the city and marginalized people, perseverance, non- judgmental attitude, ability to analyze, reflect, bring spiritual sensitivity, identify spiritual barriers, give credit to others, flexibility, and ability to lead through influence. The emphasis is to build systems that help churches advocate for, and break the bondage of, people in the margins. You need a heart for marginalized people, a teachable attitude, effective outreach style, problem-solving skills, and creativity toward marginalized groups.

Interested in learning more? Fill out this initial inquiry form and a member of our team will be in touch!

This position is for someone interested in working with a church in an ESL program to:

• Create a new program
• Run an existing program
• Work in a program to gain additional ESL experience.

This experience could help you begin a new program in a new church context. You will be working in a Canadian church with many ethnic origins. In this position you will be working with other Canada missionaries. SIM Canada will provide coaching and mentoring as needed. You will also engage with the SIM Canada team.

Recommended Experience: One year ESL teaching experience; if you are training or have training in ESL, but lack teaching experience, we can put you into a program where you can gain additional ESL experience

Interested in learning more? Fill out this initial inquiry form and a member of our team will be in touch!

Many ethnic minorities in Canada live in relatively closed communities. Churches desire to reach them for Christ but often have little idea how to engage people who are culturally different and who are often resistant to acculturation or social integration. This person will:

• develop a sense of how to best connect existing congregations in strategic activities,
• build relationships between ethnic group leaders and host culture leaders
• disciple, equip and develop ethnic group leaders to:
  • disciple believers and build congregations,
  • develop spiritual and leadership gifts,
  • share ministry within congregations and across the larger ethnic group community,
  • understand and apply universal principles of networking and leadership development to pass on to other ethnicities as opportunity arises.
• Other responsibilities:
  • Monthly prayer time with team,
  • Regular ministry reports,
  • Learn how to evaluate a community statistically, sociologically, and spiritually,
  • Take part in training opportunities.

Recommended Experience: Work in Christian leadership within people group/in own country, preferably at a denominational level or national Evangelical Alliance level.

Interested in learning more? Fill out this initial inquiry form and a member of our team will be in touch!

SIM Canada’s vision is to be engaged interculturally and connected globally to declare and demonstrate the gospel among all ethnic groups in our local and global neighbourhoods.

Some ministry possibilities include:

• Children and Youth ministry (Sunday School, Kids activities, Youth programs, VBS, etc)
• Music ministry (Teaching music to children and youth)
• Family ministry (Visiting families, organizing family activities)
• Understanding First Nations culture and history and identifying effective ministry approaches Network with churches and other organizations with the possibility of developing ministry partnerships
• Discipleship/Spiritual Growth

Required training: On the job training provided. intercultural ministry/evangelism, discipleship; minimum two years Bible training or equivalent ministry experience.
Recommended Experience: Intercultural experience, understanding of First Nations culture and history, evangelism experience, one-on-one discipleship experience, small group facilitation, cross-cultural living experience, second language acquisition, youth and/or children’s ministry.
Personality Issues/ Cultural Considerations: Servant, learner, hospitable, love for people.

Interested in learning more? Fill out this initial inquiry form and a member of our team will be in touch!

Does your heart break for the countless girls and young women exploited in the sex trade? SIM envisions that the number of youth facing exploitation and human trafficking in the Canadian sex trade will decline when local churches provide community leadership, healing environments and social supports that promote spiritual, physical and mental health for vulnerable young people. SIM seeks a frontline worker who will minister directly to exploited young women, and work with churches in the Greater Toronto Area to build capacity for spiritual care and community support for this group. Applicants should have related experience and/or education. Additional training will be provided. One of the goals is to partner with local churches to enable them to minister in their communities and train and equip individuals for cross-cultural ministry.

Required training: Ministry training will be provided.
Recommended Experience: Prior experience working in similar ministries would be an asset.
Personality Issues/ Cultural Considerations: You need a heart for these young girls, a teachable attitude, effective outreach style, problem-solving skills, and creativity toward marginalized groups.

Interested in learning more? Fill out this initial inquiry form and a member of our team will be in touch!

Canada Christian Mosaic Alliance (CMCA) reaches out to the diaspora communities in Toronto, Canada. CMCA has a vision to:

• Help the minority immigrant communities [CMCA diaspora communities] to start their own churches in their native language, culture, and tradition, and provide concrete support and close fellowship until they are independent financially, numerically, and spiritually.
• Develop indigenous leadership within their church and their culture.
• To serve the churches of CMCA Diaspora communities and other minority communities, to grow enough to reach out to their own community in Canada and their home countries, to plant or support the churches there, and to partner with them in the biblical task of making disciples of all nations.

For more information visit their website at www.cmcaallnations.org.  CMCA is a ministry partner of SIM Canada.

Required training: On the job training provided. intercultural ministry/evangelism, discipleship; minimum two years Bible training or equivalent ministry experience.
Recommended Experience: Intercultural experience, evangelism experience, one-on-one discipleship experience, small group facilitation, cross-cultural living experience, second language acquisition, event organization.
Personality Issues/ Cultural Considerations: Servant, learner, hospitable, love for people, networker.

Interested in learning more? Fill out this initial inquiry form and a member of our team will be in touch!

This person(s) will work with as many Christian groups as possible in a city, developing unity within the Church to facilitate missional, strategic initiatives for the whole. This will help the urban Church maintain its strength and facilitate the transformation of the city and surrounding country. This urban worker will live and minister in a Canadian city and through research will develop a sense of how to best network and connect other Christian workers in the urban region. Building on an understanding of ministry in the city and a commitment to the whole city, the urban worker in collaboration with other workers will develop and implement a strategic plan.

Required training: Understanding how to do statistical and sociological evaluation of a community will be helpful.
Recommended Experience: Inner city church plant, urban youth, women’s advocacy, urban anthropologist, urban planning or sociology would be deeply valuable (this person may network among the other SIM urban networkers).
Personality Issues/ Cultural Considerations: Character of the individual – Spiritual passion and purpose for the city, perseverance, analytical, reflective, and spiritually sensitive to both opportunity and barrier. They will often need to give credit to others, flexible, able to lead through influence. Humility and a learner’s heart.

Interested in learning more? Fill out this initial inquiry form and a member of our team will be in touch!

Responsibilities and opportunities include:

• Partnering with a local church desiring to reach their diverse neighborhood with the Gospel. Raise awareness of the church to reach and embrace new Canadians.
• Establish a working relationship with a local church which desires to reach out to the marginalized and newcomers in its community
• Assist churches to assess community needs and opportunities.
• Pray for ‘God ideas’ for new ministry.
• Train ethnic church leaders to set up new ministries specifically designed for that church.
• Help the church develop relationships with the newcomers and marginalized in the community.
• Initiate and participate in equipping Christians for cross-cultural ministry.
• Ensure that new ministries are ‘part of the church character.

Required training: On the job training provided. Intercultural ministry/evangelism, discipleship; minimum two years Bible training or equivalent ministry experience.
Recommended Experience: Intercultural experience, evangelism experience, one-on-one discipleship experience, small group facilitation, ESL teaching, cross-cultural living experience, second language acquisition.
Personality Issues/ Cultural Considerations: Servant, learner, hospitable, love for people, urban mindset.

Interested in learning more? Fill out this initial inquiry form and a member of our team will be in touch!

Responsibilities and Opportunities include:

• Children and Youth ministry (Sunday School, Kids activities, Youth programs, VBS)
• Music ministry (helping Worship service, *Teaching music to kids)
• Family ministry (Visiting families, organizing family activities)
• Multi-cultural Church setting (good communicating with people who speak English as their second language)
• Understanding First Nations culture and history

Required training: On the job training provided. Intercultural ministry/evangelism, discipleship; minimum two years Bible training or equivalent ministry experience.
Recommended Experience: Intercultural experience, understanding of First Nations culture and history, evangelism experience, one-on-one discipleship experience, small group facilitation, cross-cultural living experience, second language acquisition.
Personality Issues/ Cultural Considerations: Servant, learner, hospitable, love for people.

Interested in learning more? Fill out this initial inquiry form and a member of our team will be in touch!