Cell Church Missionary Opportunity
As someone who has already experienced the benefits of Cell Church you may be finding God challenging you, or calling to mind someone else in your church, to go and share your experience wider than your immediate neighbourhood & culture. Why not come to Kenya with SIM?
The need for improving the discipleship of believers prompted the Bishop of an indigenous Kenyan church to request help with establishing Cell Church principles amongst his varied congregations across Kenya and neighbouring countries. Over the last two years in response to this request two short term missionaries with SIM have been giving vision to church leaders, training potential cell leaders, overseeing the establishment of cell groups in churches, and evaluating and producing appropriate training and cell outline material. The work has now spread wider than the original church and there are now around 100 cell groups that have started in both urban and rural communities. The development of Cell Church in Kenya seems God inspired and timely and SIM is making plans to enable a sound network of cell practitioners to be established over the next five or six years when the aim is then to have that network manned by Kenyan staff supported by the Kenyan churches. The work is expanding rapidly and more help is needed and so there is need for a missionary with cell church experience to come to Kenya in 2010/11 for two to three years to act as a bridge between the current missionaries and the eventual handing over of the project to local staff. They would be involved in the ongoing training and development of local trainers, overseeing production of Kenyan Cell material, evaluating what is happening by visiting established groups in the field, mentoring key staff and helping establish a sustainable, locally funded Cell Church Network. Candidates will be approved through their local SIM sending office and will need to be able to raise living and ministry support for the time spent in Kenya. This project is also being used as a prototype to assess the introduction of cell church principles on other SIM fields.
For further information contact colin.holtum@sim.org
