Global Missions

Calling all nerds! Are you an amateur nerd, a professional code monkey, someone with strong opinions about XKCD? Park Street Church is sponsoring a Hackathon and we are in need of all skills, from graphic design to app development.

This hackathon is to assist our teams in Muslim majority countries, improving and creating Disciple Making Movement (DMM) tools that enable both seekers and believers to access, explore, and study the bible. God is using DMMs to organically grow the church among people groups living in situations hostile to the Gospel, where access to the scriptures and community with believers is heavily limited or restricted. Specifically, we’ll be enabling the sharing of a dialect-specific audio recording of the Gospel and rapidly developing a webapp to share and interact with the localized scripture.

In the lead-up, we’ll be gathering virtually 4 times for ~an hour for an introduction, two sessions where our missionary in-the-field will share about the tools, their use and need, security considerations, the social and cultural context of ministry, and the importance of dialectical language, followed by the technical kick-off. For these meetings we’ll be using one of the DMM apps to study scripture together to gain a greater appreciation of the task and the technology needs.

Our team will begin work May 15th, and in the leading 4 weeks the 4 sessions will be scheduled around participants availability (and recorded for those than can’t make a particular time). As there are security concerns we are vetting participants, so if interested please apply here by Monday, April 12th. Once accepted you’ll be invited to the group slack. 

Any questions or interest, please email [email protected]

Join a team of medical professionals as they offer online training opportunities to healthcare professionals at a hospital in the Middle East. Help us maintain an ongoing relationship with this teaching hospital through virtual sessions with their Residents and medical staff. Contact [email protected] for more information.

Do you have some professional skills or practical wisdom to share? Work with a team to develop a series of webinars aimed at addressing a variety of topics from a Christian perspective. Present these webinars in various settings in cooperation with our global missionaries and partners. These virtual events give opportunity for our global partners to build relationships infused with a Gospel witness.

APPLY HERE

Contact [email protected] for more information. 

Possible Topics 

Life Skills:  

• Time management  
• Goal Setting 
• Managing Finances 
• Essay writing 
• Critical thinking  
• Public speaking 

 Vocation:  

• Balancing work/family life
• Finding your vocation/calling  
• Avoiding burnout  
• Launching a startup

 Health and Wellbeing: 

• Navigating life in 2021 
• Developing a healthy lifestyle/Eating well
• Healthy relationships  
• Developing a healthy self-esteem 
• Emotional Intelligence   

 Job Search Skills:  

• Writing a cover letter 
• Building a CV/resume 
• Interviewing skills 
• Job search tips 

Do you enjoy helping others learn or practice English? Do you enjoy building relationships with people from a new culture? Are you willing to use your skills to help equip others to use English in a ministry setting or to build a relationship with a non-believer from another culture? Join us for one of several virtual experiences such as:

• English language partner for ministry team members
• Guest teacher in online language learning classes
• English teacher for short intensive language program

Contact [email protected] for more information.