I'm looking for a volunteering opportunityIf you have kindergarten or childcare experience, why not help our trainee missionaries from Australia and elsewhere.
Come to Tasmania to watch over their pre-school children or help older ones with homework, while the parents study at Worldview, WEC's Centre for Intercultural Studies, to prepare for overseas missionary service.
Help to lighten their busy schedule, and enable complete families to better prepare for cross-cultural ministry.
Qualities & Gifts SoughtYou have experience with childcare and would enjoy the challenge of working with children from varied ethnic backgrounds.
You are a fluent English speaker and enjoy storytelling. First Aid training is helpful but not required.
You will need to undergo police security clearance and good church references to work with our children.
WEC understands the importance of proper training and preparation for cross-cultural mission. Hence, we have several colleges around the world, which specialise in training Christians for mission.
Teaching includes input on theology and biblical interpretation, along with mentoring, and practical guidance on evangelism, outreach and ministry skills. Hands-on experience of outreach is also a core component of this training, enabling students to put the theory into practice.
With colleges in Brazil, the Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand and Mexico, and hopefully one in East Africa soon, residential training is within reach for any aspiring missionary.
Some of these colleges also offer short online modules.
Equipping the mission-minded: read more about our Cross-cultural Training Centres here .
About AustraliaThe Commonwealth of Australia in Oceania, comprises the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. The capital city is Canberra, and its largest urban area is Sydney.
Before the first European settlement, Australia was inhabited by indigenous Australians, who spoke around 250 different languages.
The current population of around 25 million is highly urbanised and heavily concentrated on the eastern seaboard. Australia has the world's 9th largest immigrant population, with immigrants accounting for 26% of the population.
Australia has one of the world's most highly urbanised populations with the majority living in metropolitan cities on the coast.
Landscape and biodiversity
Australia's size gives it a wide variety of landscapes, with tropical rainforests in the north-east, mountain ranges in the south-east, south-west and east, and dry desert in the centre.
The Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest coral reef, lies a short distance off the north-east coast and extends for over 2,000 km.
Although most of Australia is semi-arid or desert, it includes a diverse range of habitats from alpine heaths to tropical rainforests, and is recognised as a megadiverse country. Fungi typify that diversity; an estimated 250,000 species – of which only 5% have been described – occur in Australia.
About 85% of flowering plants, 84% of mammals, more than 45% of birds, and 89% of in-shore, temperate-zone fish are unique to Australia. Among well-known Australian animals are the platypus, the kangaroo, koala, and wombat, and birds such as the emu and the kookaburra.
Arts and leisure
Indigenous Australian rock art is the oldest and richest in the world, dating as far back as 60,000 years and spread across hundreds of thousands of sites. Traditional designs, patterns and stories infuse contemporary Indigenous Australian art, its exponents include Emily Kame Kngwarreye.
About 24% of Australians over the age of 15 regularly participate in organised sporting activities.
Religion
Australia has no state religion: the Australian Constitution prohibits the federal government from making any law to establish any religion, impose any religious observance, or prohibit the free exercise of any religion.
[Source: Wikipedia. Read more about Australia here ].
Australia currently hosts a total of 183 people groups, 20 of which are considered unreached.
The largest religion is Christianity at 66%. Of these the evangelical population is around 14.5%.
Please pray for:
the church in Australia
ministry among students
youth and childrens' work
ethnic minorities and peoples
the indigenous Aborigines[Operation World, 2010 print edition]
WEC Australia's vision to see Australians and their churches passionately involved in strategic roles so that multiplying churches are planted among unreached people groups.
WEC Australia come alongside local churches to help them understand cross-cultural church planting, providing vocational training, so that they can see first-hand what is involved, and work with sending churches to provide effective member care for Australian missionaries.
WEC's Worldview Centre for Intercultural Training in Launceston, Tasmania in 1956. It is a residential collegeto prepare women and men for mission, and is approved to deliver training for Melbourne School of Theology and Eastern College Australia.
Check out WEC Australia for details about our projects and goals there.
DetailsPosition Type
Youth & Children
Commitment Type
1-2 years i Location
St Leonard's
Launceston
Tasmania
Australia
Pacific
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