Career Categories of Service

The list below does not represent an exhaustive list of strategies through which missionaries serve but rather the most common areas of missionary service.

Association Strategy
An Associational Missionary is the mission leader of a Baptist association, working with local partnering churches to develop and implement a mission strategy with emphasis in church planting and evangelism.

Individuals desiring to serve in this area must demonstrate basic skill competencies in the following areas: interpersonal relationships, church planting, strategy development and implementation and effective communication.

Church Planting
Church Planter Missionaries seek to plant healthy reproducing churches with an evangelistic passion as part of a New Testament church planting movement.

Individuals desiring to serve as a church planter should have the ability to visualize their ministry, be motivated, desire to reach the unchurched and lost, effectively build relationships, utilize giftedness, be flexible, adaptable, resilient, and exercise faith.

Church and Community Ministries
Church and Community Missionaries assist churches and associations in developing ministries that result in transformed lives and transformed communities. This would include community development, economic development, and community organizing. Specific ministries include but are not limited to: food distribution, clothing distribution, crisis pregnancy intervention, literacy, substance abuse ministries, job skills, affordable housing, job banks, welfare-to-work, homeless ministries, immigration and refugee resettlement, health care, and migrant ministries.

Individuals desiring to serve in this area should have experience in the above areas. A degree in social work, community development, or a related area is preferred.

Special Ministries
Special Ministries Missionaries use creative approaches to a variety of nontraditional lifestyle and special interest groups. Missionaries take the gospel to these people groups by conducting one-on-one witnessing and establishing congregational expressions in unusual settings. Some of the varying approaches are: Resort/leisure Ministries, Sports Evangelism, Trucking Ministry, Ministry with Internationals and Creative Ministries.

Individuals desiring to serve in this area must have a strong commitment to evangelism, be comfortable ministering in a secular environment, open to working with a variety of people, be creative and yet be able to be a mission administrator and strategist. Special Ministries experience is required in the desired special ministry area as well as in speaking, writing and in conducting volunteer training.

Student Evangelism
Student Evangelism Missionaries are focused on reaching youth and/or collegiate students through the partnership of state conventions and NAMB. These are positions that allow collegiate-friendly churches and Baptist Campus Ministries to partner together on campuses that the state convention sees as strategic in sharing the Gospel with students and assimilating them into local churches. Student Evangelism Missionaries develop a comprehensive strategy to fulfill the Great Commission on their assigned campus(es), train students to do evangelism, equip students to be fully devoted disciples of Christ, and empower students to reach students.

Interested individuals should have a passion for students and evangelism with the abilities to build relationships, cast vision to students, leaders and churches, and to lead a campus ministry with a servant's heart. Experience in youth and/or college ministry is preferred.

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