Asia Minor

Area Profile
Opportunities (A-L)
Opportunities (M-Z)
Area Profile

Our Turkey team has two major focuses: church planting and ministry training. It is the desire of the team to see new fellowships emerge in cities where there is currently no church. They have been focusing their prayer and ministry efforts towards a specific province in the north-east of the country and hope to have a family living there soon.

The Turkey team also want to see the existing church grow in maturity and number through equipping believers for ministry across Turkey and in the nations. They are committed to leading and supporting the work of a ministry training programme which runs in two Turkish cities as well as in three Central Asian countries. The programme annually trains and equips a number of believers every year for ministry in the context of a monastic, missional community.

Working in close partnership with local believers, our team have established a number of compassion ministries and social enterprises in Ankara. There are more than 50,000 refugees from Syria, Iraq, and Iran in Ankara. This partnership serves more than 5,000 people with regular food distribution, clothing, medical services, children’s ministries, language courses, and spiritual support. They have also developed a sewing project which teaches refugee women to make handmade bags, wallets, and tablet covers from Turkish flat weave carpets and selling the goods on their behalf.

Our team has set up a coffee company that exists to support the work of the ministry training programme, roasting specialty coffee for the Turkish market and running a coffee shop in the centre of Ankara. The company trains local believers and refugees to work in the coffee industry.

Every week the team, with local believers, make a big pot of soup at a church in Ankara and invite those passing by to join them for lunch. Dozens of neighbours come to the church to have a bowl of soup and hear about the gospel. Soup day has become the most effective evangelistic outreach this church has ever seen! They also make a big pot of rice, chicken and chickpeas and drive it over to the bus station where over a hundred homeless people find shelter. Our workers engage in conversations about life and faith with those they give a bowl of food to. These days the back row of the local church’s services is full of people who currently reside at the bus station!

Opportunities (A-L)
Every member of World Horizons is responsible for raising their own support unless otherwise stated.

  • Business Manager – We are looking for someone who has management experience to take over the running of the coffee company owned by the ministry training programme. An awareness of the challenges of cross-cultural team management would be an advantage.
  • Church Planter – Working in partnership with the local church, our desire is to plant new fellowships in the least reached areas of Turkey. We need people to become equipped for this ministry by learning the Turkish language and gaining an understanding of the culture.
  • Entrepreneur and Church Planter – We are looking to open a new shop in north east Turkey. We need team members who will be dedicated to its success and who will also work to see a new church planted in that city.
  • Evangelist and Christian Mentor – We are looking for Arabic speakers to join an evangelistic team building relationships with refugees and using an interactive course to share the gospel. This resource centres the Christian faith in its original Middle Eastern context and can be used by both inquirers and believers.
  • IT and Communications Manager – We are looking for someone with experience in website development, coding and social media administration. We have several websites and social media accounts for our ministries that need to be maintained, as well as refugee ministry database software that we are looking to adapt for use in other areas of Turkey.
Opportunities (M-Z)
Every member of World Horizons is responsible for raising their own support unless otherwise stated.

  • Ministry Centre Manager – Our ministries are based in several locations across Ankara and we have a need for people to manage the upkeep and coordination of these premises. We also want to see our centres become a blessing to the local neighbourhood.
  • Ministry Training Coordinator and Teacher – Our ministry training programme equips up to ten Turkish believers every year for ministry in the context of a monastic, missional community. As the programme expands into other regions, we need people willing to be trained with us in Ankara and then sent to other cities to work with local churches in establishing new training programmes.
  • Short-Term Host – We are looking for someone who is committed to co-ordinating short-term teams, facilitating them as they serve with our different projects. This would include liaising with group leaders and overseeing their itinerary.
  • Social Enterprise Entrepreneur – Our sewing project is rapidly expanding and we want to see it develop into a business, helping refugee women to reestablish themselves. We are looking for people willing to bring leadership and business skills to this project.
  • Come to a Step Weekend at our Centre for the Nations to find out more.
  • Invite us. We’d love to share about our range of mission opportunities with your church or Christian Union.

Contact Information

World Horizons, Centre for the Nations,
Llanelli, Carmarthenshire SA15 2LF

enquiries@worldhorizons.co.uk

01554 750005

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