Lead Community Gardener - Italy

One Mission Society; Ancona; In loco; EUR 10.000 - 30.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

One Mission Society is seeking a Lead Community Gardener to drive a disciple-making initiative in Italy using food production gardens to engage local communities. The role involves spiritual engagement, training garden apprentices, and managing farm operations while raising support for the position.

Competenze

• Demonstrated understanding of spiritual disciplines.
• Ability to work constructively with team members.
• Coachable spirit and enthusiasm in tasks.

Mansioni

• Engage in community farming and evangelism.
• Train garden apprentices in small-scale agriculture.
• Manage farm's business aspects, including sales and production.

Conoscenze

Project management

Community outreach

Spiritual engagement

Communication

Basic accounting

Formazione

Experience with disciple-making processes

Descrizione del lavoro

One Mission Society has a vision of making reproducing disciples of Jesus Christ and equipping them to be transformational in their spheres of influence. In order to accomplish this vision, the Lead Community Gardener, working within a Disciple-Making team, will model disciple-making practices with individuals and churches in their geographical area to steward the conditions for a disciple-making movement to take place.

The Lead Community Gardener spiritually engages the immigrant and Italian communities through the use of inner city and rural food production gardens. Their primary roles include : the evangelization and discipleship of incoming and current garden apprentices, the spiritual engagement of the broader community through produce sales and community programs, and the farming, planning / designing of current or future garden sites.

Education and Experience Requirements

• Experience with disciple-making processes a plus.
• Knowledge of small-scale, intensive organic agriculture is helpful, or a passion and willingness to learn.

Skill Requirements

• Demonstrated understanding of spiritual disciplines and scriptural application. Ability to network well with partners.
• Ability to work constructively with team members in the area of disciple-making, showing value and respect for team members.
• Ability to learn the local language to an intermediate level.
• Must possess a coachable spirit.
• Presents themselves well and engages in tasks with enthusiasm.
• Weave the compassion of Christ into all tasks.
• Ability to relate to college students and enjoy spending time with them.
• Ability to seek out and maintain relationships with other agencies, churches, and universities.
• Excellent project management and communication skills.
• Basic accounting skills, as one of our primary modes of outreach is the running of a small farm.
• Community outreach and business development skills.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Maintain a regular and ever-deepening relationship with Jesus Christ through prayer, reading and study of the scriptures, fasting, and other spiritual disciplines.
• Abide in Christ together with your team including regular times of prayer, fasting, worship, accountability, and other practices.
• Personally engage with and utilize OMS-approved processes to evangelize non-believers and help others to grow in their faith and progress as reproducing disciples of Jesus.
• Work with the Disciple-Making team to plan and execute a disciple-making process in local churches and networks.
• Work with partners to start disciple-making ‘bands’ within the churches, train up leaders, and identify future individuals who can help provide leadership locally in this area.
• Spiritually prepare the church for partnership with Church Development to help the church to reach their local community.
• Give input for developing new strategies and training opportunities in disciple-making.
• Help plan conferences, trainings, and work with stewardship teams.
• Seek out and recommend new resources and processes, passing gathered information to leadership for consideration of broad-based implementation for disciple-making.
• Implement processes for determining which materials undergo translation.
• Work with the Disciple-Making and Church Development teams to develop and maintain an effective process and relationship.
• Assist as needed in other OMS Country Team ministries, where applicable and appropriate.
• Evangelize and disciple incoming and current garden apprentices.
• Teach incoming and current garden apprentices small-scale, intensive agriculture.
• Manage the business aspects of the farm : sales, accounting, and production tracking.
• Create yearly crop plan based on sales market.
• Engage and interface with the Italian church as it relates to the garden program.
• Engage broader community evangelistically through the use of garden programs.
• Plan, design and work in current and future garden spaces.
• Participate in team meetings and events.

This is a support-based position that involves raising financial support through ministry partners for salary and other expenses.

About Us

One Mission Society is an international, interdenominational missions organization dedicated to making disciples of Jesus Christ around the world. With ministry in more than 70 countries, One Mission Society partners alongside local believers to multiply disciples, leaders, churches, and missionaries. We’re passionate about seeing the Great Commission fulfilled, and we’re looking for teammates who want to use their gifts and abilities for kingdom impact.

Requirements for all roles :

• Committed follower of Jesus Christ.
• Actively involved in a local evangelical church.
• Interested in missions.

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