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We love seeing staff who have been faithful in US ministry or a church residency program be called to International opportunities!

Because of the intensity of cross-cultural ministry overseas, current employees who are transferring from a US role will need to complete a few additional application and training requirements as part of their transfer to international ministry. If you are considering this type of transfer, please initiate conversations at least 6 months before your desired launch

Steps in the Transfer Process

Application and Development Phase (1-2 months)

New Partnership

The International Team will connect with the person that will be your new supervisor in your international ministry. If this partnership is new to Reliant, they will need to sign the Reliant MOU.

Reliant Application

A 2-part application including a ministry readiness assessment, and a moral conduct/emotional health questionnaire. This is completed in Breezy.

International Missionary Personnel Consultant (IMPC) Testing

Applicants complete a set of online assessments that is reviewed by a clinical psychologist. Reliant and the applicant are provided with an initial summary, which the applicant will debrief in an interview with one of IMPC licensed counseling professionals. A final report is provided to Reliant with a final recommendation for placement and development opportunities.

Personal Development Plan

Based on the application and IMPC testing, in conjunction with the applicant's local ministry leadership, Reliant will provide a personal development plan to work on prior to launch. In some cases, certain steps will be mandatory to officially being released to raise support for an international role. This can often be integrated into your current stateside ministry role.


Ministry Team Development (3-4 months)

Support Goal

We will work with you to set a Support Goal based on your international location. Depending on where you were currently serving, and where you are going, this could be significantly higher and you may need to enter a season of more active raising. See International Support Goals for an understanding of how we calculate monthly and one-time needs.

Reliant Training

If you need to raise significant amount of new support, you may opt to attend Reliant's MTD training as a refresh and to get practice reps in giving your presentation for your new ministry. This is optional.

Coaching

All of Reliant's coaching services are available to you during this time. You can meet with your existing MTD coach, or if they are no longer available, we can assign you a new MTD coach that is used to working with International Staff. 

Release to Assignment

To be released to your new assignment, you must meet 100% of your recurring monthly goal and have an account balance that is 3x your monthly goal. Because you are already employed and receiving a paycheck, you may need to ask for additional one-time gifts to build your account balance before launching. 


Field Preparation (1-2 months)

International Orientation

The International Team hosts a quarterly 3-hour orientation which covers many on-field logistics, such as international finances, member care, and crisis management. We will also enroll you in the "Life as an International Worker" LEARN Course. You will find that there are difference nuances to your employment that are important to know, even if you have been a Reliant employee for a long time!

Crisis Management

All workers should participate in security training based on their location:

Basic Threat Level: Online course through Concilium

Moderate/High Threat Level: In-person security training through Concilium or CIT.

Cross-Cultural Training

All workers should receive some level of cross-cultural training. This is usually a one-month in-person training and may also include some language acquisition training based on field requirements. You should plan to attend as one of your final steps before launching to the field.

See Pre-field Cross-Cultural Training for details.



Questions?

Adrienne Lansing

Email: adrienne.lansing@reliant.org

Phone: 407-801-8397

Title: International Liaison

Department: International

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6 Comments

  1. Unknown User (ed.courtney@reliant.org)

    Unknown User (kate.pendola@reliant.org) Do you want this in Missionary Policies or International? It read more like an International space page to me.

    1. Unknown User (kate.pendola@reliant.org)

      Yeah, good question Ed - user-1a794 and I thought through that and actually decided we wanted it in Missionary Policies (since the audience we're going for is current US missionaries). We thought it would be more likely to be seen by the people who are needing the info this way. I'm open to discussion on that though!

  2. user-1a794

    Ed and Kate, Yep, like Kate said, open to discussion.  I think we could update the title.  What we are experiencing is that there is rapidly increasing number of US folks who want to move to int'l.  We learn late in their process becuase we don't have information available to them.  An alternate approach would be a solomon page w title:  "So you would like to change ministries" ... and then we have Transfer Ministry page, which links to : new supervisor, new location, new partnership, going int'l.  

  3. Unknown User (kate.pendola@reliant.org)

    Unknown User (kate.pendola@reliant.org):

    Table on this page should moved to a separate child page, linked in the Intl Orientation/Support Goal Development step/section.

    Split out the transfer process stages, based on how Cori structured her page (Process for Transferring from a Reliant Role in the US to an International Placement)

  4. user-a88de

    Unknown User (ed.courtney@reliant.org) - could we change the Questions? to have my contact information on it since I will be the one handling this process going forward

  5. user-a4ad0

    Julie ThompsonMike Easton - Kristina has been going through all the pages in the Missionary Policies section to update "missionary" language and do a quick review.  She noticed that "Missionary Resources" is still in this section. (See below; I can't add an inline comment in a drop down.) What should we change it to? (cc: Kristina Lilly)