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Your partnership in this vital ministry is needed now! Help us strengthen & encourage pastor and missionary families in the Arctic.
Join the Team
We have been amazed how God has brought the Arctic Barnabas team together! And we truly are a team, passionately serving Jesus with our individual gifting and skill sets while working together in unified dedication to the mission of ABM. Our staff families range widely in age and life experience. Yet God has been shaping us individually for this ministry. Click here to meet the team!
We continually sense the burden to strengthen and encourage more ministry families in remote locations of Alaska and Northern Canada whom we simply do not have the staff or resources to reach at this time. So our response has been to ask God for more laborers. We want to build the team with individuals or families who resonate with the mission of ABM. Each staff family takes the Great Commission seriously to go and make disciples of all nations. (Matthew 28:19-20.
Below are staff positions for which we have urgent need:
- Director of Aircraft Maintenance (U.S. Airframe & Powerplant with IA Certificate; minimum 5 years of industry experience desired)
- Pastors to Missionaries (pastoral care or missionary care experience desired; see job posting below for details)
Wanted: Pastoral Caregivers for remote Alaska and Northern Canada
Can you imagine packing up your family and moving to a remote village in Alaska or Northern Canada? What if God called you to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the indigenous people in that community? Whether you go as a church planter, pastor, or tentmaker you can expect a challenging road ahead. Racial and cultural barriers, isolation, extreme weather, inadequate housing, high cost of living, and visible spiritual warfare will bombard your family, stretching your faith and perseverance. Who would care for your family while you serve there? Who would come along side you for encouragement and a helping hand? Who would keep you from feeling forgotten or abandoned?
We are looking for dedicated people with experience and passion for pastoral care to join our team and provide loving care for families like those described above.
Arctic Barnabas Ministries (ABM) was founded in 2000 in Kenai, Alaska and exists to strengthen and encourage pastor and missionary families to effectively advance the gospel of Jesus Christ throughout remote Alaska and Northern Canada.
Alaska is 1/5 the size of the lower 48 states with approximately 230 communities. Only a handful of communities are accessible by roads. All transportation of equipment, food, and people to these remote villages is either by barge or aircraft. ABM operates several airplanes to access these villages and get face-to- face with the ministry families we serve.
The pastors and missionaries ministering in remote Alaska and Northern Canada are often unprepared, under supported, and overwhelmed by the spiritual and physical challenges. ABM assists with these in four ways:
1. Shepherd – We pursue trusting friendships with pastors and missionary families, offering life-giving communication and fellowship. We want to be on their turf, seeing their battles, bringing encouragement and celebrating their victories.
2. Equip – No one can survive in Alaska without adequate preparation. We help existing and soon-coming ministry families acquire proper tools and training for the job. We equip them with resources and provide learning opportunities for spiritual growth and family health.
3. Serve – We send volunteer work teams during all seasons to serve these families. Projects include home maintenance, equipment repair, wood cutting, etc.
4. Refresh – We specialize in providing unique retreat opportunities which enable the whole family to rest, play, and refocus. Our annual Ministry Family Retreat and regional women’s and men’s retreats offer spiritual, physical, and emotional nourishment.
Currently, we are actively building relationships with over 80 families in approximately 65 villages. Over the coming years as God grows His church in the North we are aiming to increase the number of families for which we can care. 2011 marks our first year reaching across the border into Canada with many opportunities for us to connect with new ministry contacts.
Our core belief is: If the ministry leaders and their families serve these villages through personal vitality, Christ will pour out of their lives many times more effectively than if they just exist there. We desire to see these families thriving, not just surviving, with the end-result of lives transformed by the Gospel.
Do you have what it takes to come along side these courageous servants as a pastoral caregiver? If you sense God prompting you to consider this assignment, please contact us for more information.
