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| Policy Name: | Basis of Employment with Reliant |
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| Scope: | Field Staff and Associates |
| Revision Date: | February 16, 2023 |
| Last Review Date: | March 9, 2023 |
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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 of Understanding.
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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 of Reliant-employed missionaries 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 these missionary 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 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 ministries. Gathering donations for Reliant is the missionarystaff's first ministry. Reliant Reliant calls this process Ministry Team Development (MTD). A missionary should Staff should understand that payment of things like salaries, benefits, and other expenses fully entirely depends on funds being made available to Reliant through his/her their fund-raising efforts.
Facts of Reliant 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 Field Manual at its sole discretion and at any time.
Reliant provides provides a Equal Employment Policy 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 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 Conduct
- Statement of Faith
- Job DescriptionDescriptions
- Memo Memorandum of Understanding - Old Version
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Your job description should be evaluated and updated with Reliant annually. |
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