If the church or ministry that the missionary wants to transfer to has not worked with Reliant previously, a new partnership needs to be established. The standard New Partnership process is followed in that case, including:

• New Supervisor has partnership call with Missionary Resources

• New Partner completes Partnership Affirmation form

• New Supervisor oriented to need for a budget & international support goal

• Identify MTD coach, if needed

An abbreviated assessment process will be completed at go.reliant.org, looking into key things that are changing in the new international role. It will include things such as: 

Documentation (application)

• Spouse reference & current supervisor reference
• Updates on Job Description/Ministry Skills, Calling to Ministry, Moral Conduct/Emotional Health, and MTD Readiness - related to the new international role
• International testing in partnership with International Personnel Consultants & Mission Training International

Supervisor Interview

After submitting an application, an interview will be held with your anticipated future supervisor for the international role.

Reliant Interview

You will also talk with a Reliant interviewer, which will include discussing some of the information reported from your international testing packet.

Decision

Your anticipated future supervisor and Reliant will make a decision in regards to the transfer. If your transfer application is approved, you will move forward with a season of additional MTD and preparation for your international role.

At this point, Reliant will need to see an initial plan for the following questions (it may be helpful to think through some of these earlier on):

• When do you plan to start MTD for your international role, and how much time do you plan to devote to MTD?
• When do you plan to transition away from current job responsibilities?
• Do you need to change your employment status while you raise additional support (you have the opportunity to change to Associate or a Part-Time status in order to accrue funds more quickly)? If so, when?
• When do you hope to attend MTI cross-cultural training?
• When do you hope to complete your fundraising? (Fundraising must be completed in order to be released to your new assignment.)
• When do you hope to move to your international ministry location?

• Budget information will need to be gathered from the supervisor for your new international role
• A new needs-based support goal will be calculated using the International Support Goal Worksheet (SGW). This support goal will be added to StaffNet to help track progress towards 100% but will not be used for payroll initially.

At 50%

• • Register for COMPASS training with MTI – make sure these plans have been approved by Reliant and your current supervisor first.

Between 50-80%

• • Contact payroll@reliant.org to set up a time to discuss international banking plans.
  • Contact reimbursements@reliant.org for information regarding international reimbursements.

Around 80%

• • Official transfer happens in Reliant's databases. This reflects a transfer of responsibility from the previous U.S. assignment to the future International assignment and updates ministry information on reliant.org profiles (if not already updated).
  • Aim to attend COMPASS training with MTI around this time.

Since this transfer involves a new ministry assignment and new international support goal, a new release to your international assignment will be required. A few key things happen once a new Release to Assignment is official:

• Plane tickets are purchased
• Salary will change to the international needs-based salary calculated in the SGW
• Insurance will change to international coverage