Welcome!

We appreciate your interest in SMG. An Applicant Liaison will be in touch with you soon to discuss your application and answer any questions you may have about the process. If you have questions at this point in the application, you can email ldhr@smglobal.org

SMG missionaries and ministry staff hold positions of spiritual leadership. Their lifestyle choices can and do influence believers and non-believers. Therefore, in accordance with Holy Scripture, missionary and ministry staff members should seek to live lives which are holy and, following the example of our Lord, in love and humility, are to consider the interests of others ahead of their own interests (Colossians 3:1-17).

In accordance with Scripture, our ministry expects each SMG missionary and ministry staff member to live a life which is above reproach, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, (1 Timothy 3:1-7) and to act with a high level of consideration for those around him/her. This means that each SMG missionary and ministry staff must consider all lifestyle choices in the light of his/her role as a spiritual leader, and with respect to how particular actions can influence believers and non-believers. Some practices that are areas of freedom in Christ may not be wise choices for a SMG missionary (1 Corinthians 8:9-13; Romans 14). SMG missionaries are to refrain from questionable conduct and to act with sensitive regards for others (believers and nonbelievers) so that our ministry and testimony is “profitable.” 

As SMG missionaries, we are in a position of spiritual leadership and have a high level of influence in the lives of others. I Timothy 3 outlines many qualifications for those in spiritual leadership. Because of our position, each SMG missionary is asked to exhibit strong convictions and a lifestyle consistent with biblical standards in the sexual area of their life so that we may have an honorable reputation as ministers of the gospel. We recognize that behavior alone is an incomplete reflection of the heart, so it is our desire to engage with you in such a way that we consider the deeper stories that are behind the behavior. We affirm that God is always working to renew and transform our hearts and to redeem that which is broken within us. The following questions are asked with that in mind.

NOTE: Because of the sensitive nature of these questions (or if you are uncomfortable entering this through the secure website), you may prefer to discuss your answers over the phone.

SMG Missionary Staff Members raise their own financial and prayer support. Below are several statements which speak about SMG’s view of what we call Ministry Partner Development (MPD).

There are many advantages to this financial paradigm. The most significant advantage is that our “ministry partners” commit themselves to praying for our ministry. Psalm 127:1 tells us, “Unless the Lord builds the house, its builders labor in vain.” A ministry that is not founded upon and supported by prayer is a ministry that is doomed to failure. Therefore, our ministry partners play a critical role in the success of our ministry, not only through their financial giving, but also significantly through their prayers. Each staff member, including our president, is responsible for building a team of individuals and churches who work together to finance his or her ministry. Just as the pastor of a local church is paid as a result of the generous giving of his/her congregation, so our missionaries are paid as a result of the generous giving of our ministry partners.

SMG provides in-depth training for new missionaries. The training will provide you with an orientation to the ministry, an understanding of our mission and methods, and the tools you will need to communicate about your ministry to raise funds. Staff receive individual coaching, support and accountability throughout their ministry partner development process.

SMG is a faith-based missions organization. Becoming a SMG missionary staff, Intern, STINTer, or Part Time Field Staff involves not only meeting the standards for missionary service, but also raising funds to cover the financial needs of your personal ministry. 

Below are two representative job descriptions, one for a field role and one for an operations role. At the end of these two job descriptions, please tell us about your ability to meet the physical requirements of this job.

This Job Description is generic in nature and should not be viewed as a specific job description in relation to a specific role you might have with SMG. It is, however, a description of the kinds of job duties SMG staff have in terms of essential cognitive and physical knowledge, skills, and abilities.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

SMG missionary and ministry staff will demonstrate a balanced, Spirit-filled Christian lifestyle and maintain biblical priorities in commitments to ministry, family, associates, personal interests and study.

MINISTRY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Demonstrate faith and love for the Lord
• Demonstrate leadership
• Contribute effectively in a team environment
• Grow in love for others
• Cultivate a solid team of ministry partners who give financially and pray regularly

FIELD MINISTRY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Introduce others to Jesus
• Follow up with new believers
• Plant and grow new movements

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

KNOWLEDGE OF:

• Ministry organization, operations, policies, values, and objectives
• New staff training curriculum (per role)
• Operation, procedures and precedents of the ministry and team to which assigned
• Knowledge of current technology relevant to effective ministry
• Correct English usage, grammar, spelling, punctuation and vocabulary
• Oral and written communication skills
• Basic tenants of the Christian faith and practice

ABILITY TO:

• Grow in relationship with God, in faith and in the application of God’s Word to self and others
• Effectively communicate ministry objectives, values, and methodologies
• Understand and express abstract concepts with others
• Apply common SMG conceptual frameworks in practical ministry (i.e. growth model, leadership framework, and others defined in appropriate training   curriculum)
• Work independently with little direction
• Establish and maintain effective relationships with others, in the context of a team, with those in the movement and with those on in the ministry   audience to which you will relate
• Plan and organize work
• Work confidentially with discretionMaintain records and prepare reports
• Train and provide direction for others
• Use the technology necessary to carry out these responsibilities
• Engage in critical thinking as job responsibilities are carried out
• Understand and verbally express relational, Biblical, and abstract concepts
• Learn often used SMG conceptual frameworks – growth model, leadership framework, and others defined in the appropriate training curriculum

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:

A college degree or commensurate life and work experience

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee is required to communicate and listen. The employee frequently is required to walk and sit. The employee is occasionally required to stand and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include sufficient ability to read, write, interact with people interpersonally, and move independently from place to place. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate but varies by assignment. The work environment is typically in places where the people you are seeking to reach live, work, study, and enjoy leisure activities.

This Job Description is generic in nature, and should not be viewed as a specific or accurate job description in relation to a specific role you might have with SMG. It is, however, a description of the kinds of job duties SMG staff have in terms of essential mental and physical knowledge, skills, and abilities.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

SMG missionary and ministry staff will demonstrate a balanced, Spirit-filled Christian lifestyle and maintain biblical priorities in commitments to ministry, family, associates, personal interests and study.

MINISTRY RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Demonstrate faith and love for the Lord
• Demonstrate leadership
• Grow in love for others
• Cultivate a solid team of ministry partners who give financially and pray regularly
• Seek to share your faith and disciple young believers as the job environment provides an opportunity

OFFICE RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Grow in proficiency according to the job responsibilities for your role
• Grow in effective teamwork
• Develop a position focus and personal development plan, carry it out, and   evaluate it for further effectiveness

QUALIFICATIONS 

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

KNOWLEDGE OF:

• Ministry organization, operations, policies, values, and objectives
• Training curriculum (per role)
• Operation, procedures and precedents of the ministry and team to which assigned
• Current computer software, operations, technology and other office-related equipment required to effectively carry out duties
• Correct English usage, grammar, spelling, punctuation and vocabulary
• Oral and written communication skills
• Basic tenants of the Christian faith and practice
• Learn often used SMG conceptual frameworks – growth model, leadership framework, others defined in the appropriate training curriculum

ABILITY TO:

• Grow in relationship with God, in faith and in the application of God’s Word to self and others
• Effectively communicate ministry objectives, values, and methodologies
• Understand and express abstract concepts with others
• Work independently with little direction
• Establish and maintain effective relationships with others, in the context of a team, with those in the movement and with those in the ministry context
• Plan and organize work
• Work confidentially with discretion
• Maintain records and prepare reports
• Train and provide direction for others
• Use technology necessary to carry out these responsibilities
• Engage in critical thinking as job responsibilities are carried out 
• Understand and verbally express relational, Biblical, and abstract concepts 

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:

A college degree or commensurate life and work experience

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee is required to communicate and listen. The employee frequently is required to walk and sit. The employee is occasionally required to stand and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include sufficient ability to read, write, interact with people interpersonally, and move independently from place to place. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. The work environment is typically an office setting.

The sole basis of our beliefs is the Bible, God’s infallible written Word, the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments. We believe that it was uniquely, verbally and fully inspired by the Holy Spirit and that it was written without error (inerrant) in the original manuscripts. It is the supreme and final authority in all matters on which it speaks.

We accept those areas of doctrinal teaching on which, historically, there has been general agreement among all true Christians. Because of the specialized calling of our movement, we desire to allow for freedom of conviction on other doctrinal matters, provided that any interpretation is based upon the Bible alone, and that no such interpretation shall become an issue which hinders the ministry to which God has called us.

• There is one true God, eternally existing in three persons – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – each of whom possesses equally all the attributes of Deity and the characteristics of personality.
• Jesus Christ is God, the living Word, who became flesh through His miraculous conception by the Holy Spirit and His virgin birth. Hence, He is perfect Deity and true humanity united in one person forever.
• He lived a sinless life and voluntarily atoned for human sins by dying on the cross as a substitute, thus satisfying divine justice and accomplishing salvation for all who trust in Him alone.
• He rose from the dead in the same body, though glorified, in which He lived and died.
• He ascended bodily into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God the Father, where He, the only mediator between God and humanity, continually makes intercession for His own.
• Adam and Eve were originally created in the image of God. They sinned by disobeying God; thus, they were alienated from their Creator. That historic fall brought all people under divine condemnation.
• Human nature is corrupted. As a result, all people are totally unable to please God. Everyone is in need of regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
• Salvation is wholly a work of God's free grace and is not the work, in whole or in part, of human works or goodness or religious ceremony. God imputes His righteousness to those who put their faith in Christ alone for their salvation, and thereby justified them in His sight.
• It is the privilege of all who are born again of the Spirit to be assured of their salvation from the very moment in which they trust Christ as their Savior. This assurance is not based upon any kind of human merit, but is produced by the witness of the Holy Spirit, who confirms in the believer the testimony of God in His written word.
• The Holy Spirit has come into the world to reveal and glorify Christ and to apply the saving work of Christ to individuals. He convicts and draws sinners to Christ, imparts new life to them, continually indwells them from the moment of spiritual birth and seals them until the day of redemption. His fullness, power and control are appropriated in the believer's life by faith.
• Believers are called to live so in the power of the indwelling Spirit that they will not fulfill the lust of the flesh but will bear fruit to the glory of God.
• Jesus Christ is the Head of the Church, His Body, which is composed of all people, living and dead, who have been joined to Him through saving faith.
  God admonishes His people to assemble together regularly for worship, for participation in ordinances, for edification through the Scriptures and for mutual encouragement.
• At physical death the believer enters immediately into eternal, conscious fellowship with the Lord and awaits the resurrection of the body to everlasting glory and blessing.
• At physical death the unbeliever enters immediately into eternal, conscious separation from the Lord and awaits the resurrection of the body to everlasting judgment and condemnation.
• Jesus Christ will come again to the earth – personally, visibly and bodily – to consummate history and the eternal plan of God.
• The Lord Jesus Christ commanded all believers to proclaim the Gospel throughout the world and to disciple people from every nation. The fulfillment of that Great Commission requires that all worldly and personal ambitions be subordinated to a total commitment to “Him who loved us and gave Himself for us.”

Applicants to the GCTC program are required to submit the following references below. (Please do not select family members.)

Please contact your SMG Staff, Spiritual Leader & Pastor letting them know that they will be receiving an email from SMG to fill out your reference form.

If they have not received the email, please provide the form link below and ask them to complete it.

https://form.jotform.com/233184287205052

If you cannot provide a name for a certain category, do the best of what you can. We would rather have a reference from someone who knows you well than from someone who does not know you well that fits the category. For instance, we would rather have a reference from a spiritual leader who knows you well than from a SMG staff who does not.

Employer Reference

(if not able to use current employer, use a previous employer)

As a current or recently employed STINTer, Intern, or Part-Time Field Staff, you are only required to provide three references:

1. Current Team Leader 
2. Current Team Member
3. and a Peer or Spiritual Leader of your choice.

Each reference should be someone who has known you well during your time of service.