Registration Requirements
We developed our candidate process intentionally to help us meet our mission goals. This process blends the collective experience and wisdom of years of global cross-cultural ministry. We direct candidates in a life reflection process, in which they learn about the Missiology of CBF and respond to ideas like missional church, contextualization, sustainability, and networking. The encourager church process is a crucial step for candidates as they determine a church that might fill this role. It is our desire to aid, equip, and guide candidates so that they can serve God as called.
Goals for the candidate process:
1. Reflection and discernment of calling
2. Responding and shaping of service assignment
3. Learning and engaging in CBF GM Missiology and team structure
4. Encourager Church Covenant development
5. Health and wellness
6. Character exploration
The first step in our candidate process is a 10-week online cohort session. This year's session dates are:
Beginning Ending (6 p.m. EST)
Spring 2008 Session Dates:
Monday, March 17, 2008 Friday, May 23, 2008
Monday, April 7, 2008 Friday, June 13, 2008
Summer 2008 Session Date:
Monday, June 23, 2008 Friday, August 29, 2008
Fall 2008 Session Dates:
Monday, September 22, 2008 Friday, December 5, 2008
Monday, October 6, 2008 Friday, December 19, 2008
Registration is required at least 5 business days prior to the beginning of each session.
Married candidates interested in serving through Career and Global Service Corp (GSC) categories of service are required to fill out an information form for each spouse. We encourage AsYouGo Affiliate candidates that are married to also apply as a couple, however this is not a requirement.
To register, complete the information form. Indicate your desired start date for the 10-week session, along with a user name and password. We will use your user name and password to register you into the candidate site. Once you are registered, we will send information regarding logging into the candidate process site.
Please review the following guidelines for service that have been established for each category.
AsYouGo Affliates
Basic guidelines for becoming an Affiliate through the AsYouGo Affiliate Service include the following:
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Active faith, “believer’s baptism”, and current church membership
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A call from God to mission service
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Good moral character and reputation
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A lifestyle of actively sharing one’s faith with non-Christians
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Demonstrates Baptist identity
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Embraces CBF Global Mission’s organizational identity and philosophy of missions
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Employment possibility in strategic location which will correspond with a service assignment from an existing field team.
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Experience and physical capability to meet the demands of the service assignment
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Desire and capability to participate in team strategy, accountability and consensus building when relating to a field team
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Willingness to attend team meetings at least once a year either on the field or in conjunction with the General Assembly
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Demonstrates spiritual and emotional maturity
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Married candidates need to have been married at least 2 years
The Global Missions Office can utilize a wide variety of training and experience on teams ministering with the “most neglected” worldwide. Ministers, theological educators, ESL teachers, physicians, et al. can bring their individual gifts to the task and strengthen the overall team.
An Affiliate is a Christian who senses the leadership of God to share his or her faith cross-culturally. The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship operates in a world without borders. We seek not to compete with or duplicate the efforts of others.
Global Service Corp (GSC)
Basic guidelines for becoming a part of the Global Service Corps
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Active faith, believer’s baptism, current church membership and Baptist identity;
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A sense of calling from God to missionary service (not necessarily as a career);
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Good moral character and reputation;
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Physical capability to meet the demands of a vigorous assignment;
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A lifestyle of sharing their faith in Christ;
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Demonstrated sense of identity with the mission of CBF;
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Experience adequate for assignment;
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U.S. citizenship (required for overseas assignments – citizenship from North American countries may be acceptable for some North American assignments);
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Free of heavy, financial commitments.
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Demonstrates spiritual and emotional maturity;
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Demonstrates willingness and capability to work under the direct supervision of another
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Married candidates need to have been married at least 1 years
The Global Service Corps can utilize a wide variety of training and experience on teams focusing on the needs of the “most neglected” world-wide. GSC personnel also may fulfill assignments working with various CBF ministry partners globally.
CBF appoints couples (each must have a call to missions), single women, and single men from all phases of life as GSC missionaries. GSC assignments range from 1 – 3 years in length. All GSCers work under the direct supervision of CBF field personnel or ministry partner.
GSC personnel are Christians who sense the leadership of God to share his or her faith cross-culturally. The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship operates in a world without borders. We seek not to compete with or duplicate the efforts of others.
Career
Basic guidelines for becoming a part of this missions effort as career service field personnel include the following:
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Active faith, baptism by immersion, and current membership in a Baptist church;
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A call from God to mission service;
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Good moral character and reputation;
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Physical capability to meet the demands of a vigorous assignment;
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A lifestyle of actively sharing one’s faith with non-Christians;
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Professional training in keeping with interests and gifting;
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Demonstrated sense of identity with CBF;
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Experience adequate for assignment;
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U.S. citizenship;
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Free of heavy, financial commitments.
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Married candidates need to have been married at least 2 years
The Global Missions Office can utilize a wide variety of training and experience on teams ministering with the “most neglected,” inner cities, internationals, and Europe. Ministers, theological educators, ESL teachers, physicians, et al. can bring their individual gifts to the task and strengthen the overall team.
CBF appoints couples (each must have a call to missions), single men, and single women as career service field personnel. After appointment, if marital status changes (other than the death of a spouse) the field personnel would resign. Divorce does not automatically exclude one from consideration.
In the case of CBF field personnel marrying a person not currently CBF field personnel, but qualified to be, and wishing to become one, resignation could be delayed for up to a year, pending the outcome of the new spouse’s becoming CBF field personnel; with the commissioning of the new spouse, resignation would not be required.
CBF career service field personnel are Christians who sense the leadership of God to share his or her faith cross-culturally. The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship operates in a world without borders . . . global missions rather than home and foreign missions. We seek not to compete with nor duplicate the efforts of others.