Reliant partners with missional churches and Gospel-centered

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ministries to mobilize support-based

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workers for the Great Commission.

The basis of a missionary’s staff member's religious employment and mobilization with Reliant starts in partnership with a missional church or Gospel-centered nonprofit organizationministry. That partner organization has reviewed Reliant's statement Statement of faith Faith and affirmed the Reliant Memo Reliant Memo of Understanding. Missionary employment at

Employment with Reliant requires active

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oversight by the partner organization and an active role description (job description). 

Partner organizations provide Reliant and its missionaries the on-going staff with the ongoing supervisory structure that guides the missionary’s staff's daily ministry. As well, the partner organization has provided clarity for the missionary’s staff's intended role and participated in the assessment and hiring process for the prospective missionarystaff member. 

The roles for which Reliant employs missionaries exist of Reliant-employed staff are for the primary purpose of ministering the Gospel gospel and furthering the Great Commission and Reliant's spiritual and pastoral mission. Therefore, the primary emphases of roles given will directly or indirectly support preaching these staff roles are religious and ministerial in nature to support preaching the gospel, evangelism, teaching, and discipling followers of Christ.  

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Staff roles are funded by the

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support-raising efforts of

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the staff member.

Reliant missionaries accept -employed staff members accept the privilege and responsibility to trust God to provide the necessary funding for their ministerial careerministries. Gathering donations for a ministry role is their first jobReliant is the staff's first ministry. Reliant calls this process Ministry Team Development (MTD). The first responsibility of the missionary is to develop their Reliant Ministry Team and gather the financial resources necessary for the expenses of ministry.  These expenses include insurances, salary, reimbursable expenses, administrative assessments/fees and all ministry related expenses.   The payment of salary and other expenses can only happen when funding is available through the missionary's MTD Staff should understand that payment of things like salaries, benefits, and other expenses entirely depends on funds being made available to Reliant through their fund-raising efforts. 

Facts of Reliant

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employment

• Employment with Reliant is "at will." The Missionary Field Manual is not a contract of employment and is not intended to create contractual obligations of any kind. Employment will be on an "at-will" basis unless there is a specific, written employment contract that provides otherwise. Either Reliant or the employee may terminate employment at any time, with or without notice or cause, and for any or no reason. In order to retain necessary flexibility in the administration of policies and procedures, Reliant reserves the right to change, revise or eliminate any of the policies and/or benefits described in this handbook at Field Manual at its sole discretion and at any time. 

• Reliant provides provides a Equal Employment Opportunity for its missionariesstaff.

• A Reliant missionary is Staff members are employed by Reliant , and not the partner organization. 
• Reliant missionaries Staff members will receive W-2 tax forms as full employees of Reliant,  and Reliant and not 1099s (which are only used for independent contractors).

• As ministers of the gospel, Reliant missionary  staff roles are religious and ministerial in nature to support preaching the gospel, evangelism, teaching, and discipling followers of Christ. 

Guiding documents of Reliant employment

The following are documents that guide your employment with Reliant: 

• Code of EthicsConduct
• Statement of Faith
• Missionary Job DescriptionDescriptions 
• Memo Memorandum of Understanding

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