Partner Agencies
Below is a list of mission agencies that partner together with Second Wind Network. (Some may not be listed for security reasons.) They are all keen to have mature Christians join them because of their life and ministry experience. They will help you in every way they can.
There are two categories listed – (a)Full Partners and (b) Associates. Both categories can list their Top Needs, but only Full Partners have their profile entered in our on-line database, for matching against your profile. Only Full Partners can view your details on-line (with your permission).
Please remember that while Second Wind Network supports these agencies, we are not a sending agency ourselves. Any decision you make to join a particular mission agency is your own responsibility.
Click on a name in the list below and you will be directed to a section listing their Name, Contact Details and a Description of their ministry. If you would like to investigate further, click on the Web link beside the Agency Name and you will be linked directly to their web page. By clicking on the name of the Contact Person, you will also be able to send an email enquiry. The Second Wind Network web page will remain in the background.
Click on the name of the agency to obtain more information.
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Campus Crusade for Christ Australia Contact Christina Weston (03) 9014 7584 Do you know that CCCA does not just work on education campuses? Our reach is a lot wider and we have a variety of ministries in different sectors and population groups – youth & young adults, young families, women, strategic influencers and overseas communities, athletes, media and the arts, and through our global aid organisation called Gain. We are a team of ordinary Christians committed to God’s work of building spiritual movements everywhere so that everyone knows someone who truly follows Jesus. There may well be a place for you! We are also involved in internet evangelism which we follow up by email discipling – so you can be involved with us from your own home, here in Australia through one of our local ministries, or overseas. If you are interested in one of these areas check it out on our website and contact us.  Back to ListChurch Missionary Society – Australia Contact Judith Calf 02 9284 6777 CMS locates its personnel by working in partnership with local churches in both the Northern Territory and overseas. Our vision is to see God’s church growing in all the world as lives and communities are transformed by Christ. We currently have almost 200 missionaries serving in over 35 countries. In order to make best use of our strengths and resources, we are placing people into mission partnerships, emphasising five strategic areas of ministry: Mission in Muslim areas We pray and plan that by the year 2012, we will have increased our overall missionary numbers to 275, of whom 65 will be working in the Muslim world. If you would like to explore with us whether there might be a place for you in this vision and plan, please get in touch. Back to ListEuropean Christian Mission Web: http://www.ecmi.org Contact Ray Busuttil 02 9747 5446European Christian Mission is working to bring the hope of Christ to today’s Europeans. Our priority is to establish new churches in Europe, working in partnership with local evangelical organisations. ECM partners with missionaries, churches and individuals who are spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ throughout the nations of this continent. Our desire is to see new churches established where none currently exist and to encourage them to reproduce contextually appropriate communities of faith that witness to Jesus Christ, embody the gospel and act as an agent of change in society. With this desire in mind we have been active in evangelism, disciple making, integral ministries and training of leaders, always looking for creative and innovative ways to adapt to the local culture and the ever changing society. It is a huge task, but one that we believe is vital, exciting and unavoidable. Will you join us on this journey into hope? Back to ListFar East Broadcasting Company Contact Jenny Porter 02 9525 6460 FEBC broadcasts Christian radio programs using AM, FM and shortwave facilities as well as the internet to address people’s physical and spiritual needs. Our daily international radio ministry overcomes natural and man-made barriers of isolation, persecution, literacy and distance to share Christ’s love in over 130 languages, from transmitters located around the world. Last year, the radio ministry of FEBC received more than 1,100,000 responses from listeners. Most people who join the FEBC overseas staff team have experience in broadcast engineering. Most of our staff have engineering degrees, but not all have worked on high powered transmitters before joining FEBC. At times there are vacancies for skilled riggers or builders depending on projects being undertaken at the time. Most programming or journalism for FEBC’s radio broadcasts is undertaken by the speakers of the many languages in which our programs are aired. There are very few openings for English programmers. However, if you have a language other than English as a first language, particularly if it is a language with few Christian believers and announcers, your radio communication skills could be most valuable to the work. If you believe that God is leading you into full time work in Christian radio ministry, please contact us so that FEBC Australia’s leaders can work with you through this investigative process. Back to ListHCJB Australia Contact Sondy Ward 03 8720 8000 You have the freedom to do anything you want. Why not do something that can impact thousands of people? HCJB Australia is an evangelical, interdenominational faith mission that broadcasts the gospel using shortwave radio to countries within the Asia Pacific region, including Indonesia, China, Japan and India. Our head office and studios are located at Kilsyth, 30km east of Melbourne, and our broadcast site is at Kununurra, WA. HCJB Australia is part of the international HCJB World Radio organization. Radio can go where missionaries cannot go, crossing barriers of ideology, religion, distance and culture. HCJB Australia has a role for people in a variety of areas – administration, broadcasting, technical, computers and farming are just a few. Why not contact us to see if there is a role for you. Back to ListInternational Nepal Fellowship Web: http://www.inf.org Contact Elle or Phil Morris 02 9411 1195NEPAL is a challenge for the SURE FOOTED! INF, under God is meeting this challenge. You can too, if you are a Christian interested in serving in an exciting cross cultural health and development mission,and have skills to pass on to Nepali colleagues. You’ll also need flexibility, patience and a sense of humour. And you’ll share in one of the world’s fastest growing churches; but no visas are given for Christian work. INF helps people affected by TB, leprosy, disability, HIV/AIDS and drug abuse; facilitates development amongst poor All positions are on a raise-your-own support basis, but we can help you. Back to ListInternational Teams Contact Janice Collins 0412 864526 or 02 9890 2244 Helping churches help the poor and oppressed in Australia and overseas. We focus on Refugees, Children at Risk, Youth, Human Trafficking and the Economically Disadvantaged, in over 50 countries in Western, Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, East Asia, Latin America, North America and Australia. We desire to reflect God’s heart to the weak, poor, marginalised and victims of sin by compassionately caring for them, fearlessly proclaiming the Good News of Jesus and by working for the transforming of society so that they may discover their dignity and have hope We believe strongly in training individuals and in churches being mobilised for missions and that short-term missions can have great long-term impact. It’s not so much what YOU do, but what GOD does IN you. IT Australia specializes in training and equipping church based teams to work with either existing IT ministries, or in other locations chosen by the local church. There are also many opportunities for support staff, supporting those directly involved in training or front-line ministry. Back to ListInterserve Australia Contact Jane Fairweather 1800 067100 Interserve provides the opportunities, resources and connections for people to serve Christ using their professional skills voluntarily in countries in Asia and the Arab World where He is least known, using their vocational and life skills. We get alongside the local people in tackling material, physical, mental and spiritual needs. Our commitment is to partner together in reaching the hard places of the world. There is no work in any field that has the label “Interserve”. Partnership means being a servant and for many serving through Interserve that service will be through secondment to other agencies, Christian or secular, and to governments or churches. For others it may mean making their own employment contracts and some will be students. Interserve Partners are engaged in wholistic ministry. That means we get to impact lives at multiple levels. Our skills are applied in communities through assignments where we can make a real difference to the lives of people in need. The sacrificial quality of our service also gives us the proximity, credibility and opportunity to demonstrate and articulate the gospel of Christ as we build relationships and serve the local church. Back to ListMiddle East Christian Outreach Contact Richard Coombs 0413 046 084 Middle East Christian Outreach (MECO) is an interdenominational fellowship of evangelical Christians from many countries with shared goals for the Middle East. During 150 years of service in the region, MECO has played an important part in the growth of the church, and now serves in many Middle Eastern countries. Is God calling you? You can be involved in ministry with us! Will you join us in spreading the good news in the Middle East? There are so many opportunities to serve God in this region. Explore some areas that you can be involved with MECO by visiting our website. Back to ListMission Aviation Fellowship Contact Grant Dixon 07 40461300 Did you know that every six minutes a MAF plane takes off or lands somewhere in the world to serve isolated people? MAF is a not-for-profit team of aviation professionals providing air transport in places of deepest human need – remote places where flying is not a luxury, but a lifeline. For almost 60 years, MAF has flown over jungles, mountains, swamps and deserts to bring thousands of men, women and children medical care, emergency relief, long-term development and Christian hope. As well as pilots and engineers we need lots of other people to keep us in the air! Eg: accountants, administrators, builders, mechanics, quality managers, stores managers and many more! Back to ListMission Partners – Australian Presbyterian World Mission Contact Kevin Murray 02 97921373 Mission Partners (the Australian Presbyterian World Mission) is the organisation of the Presbyterian Church of Australia which helps facilitate the church’s obedience to the great commission of our Lord Jesus Christ to “go and make disciples of all nations…” We are different from other denominational mission agencies in that our missionaries serve in one of two ways: either (a) serving with Partner Churches in Bangladesh, Japan, Malawi, Myanmar, Sudan and Zambia, or (b) serving with Partner Agencies such as GRN, OMF, Wycliffe, Pioneers, SIM etc. The majority of our missionaries serve in this way. Back to ListNTCSA Woolaning Homeland Christian College Contact Fred van Brussel 08 89781000 Additional website: http://www.ntcsa.nt.edu.au/index.cfm?fuseaction=page&p=21 Woolaning Homeland Christian College is a part of the NT Christian Schools Association (NTCSA). The College seeks to provide education in preparation for a life in which students will have Students generally come from remote communities and have patchy (often non-existent) primary schooling. Many are kids in crisis and trauma, coming from dysfunctional situations. The residential programme is run on a ‘Family Group Home’ model where a House Parent couple have care of a household of up to 12 students. Located in the tropical ‘Top End’, adjacent to Litchfield National Park, the College forms its own small, remote village/community comprising students, House Parents, Teachers and support staff. All staff live on site. Modest and basically furnished accommodation is provided. All regular positions are paid but we also welcome volunteers. Be involved in Australia with our own indigenous people – get in touch! OMF International Contact National Office (02) 9868 4777 Asia remains the least evangelized continent on earth, with more unreached peoples than any other region. We focus on more than 105 people groups in East Asia, representing 90% of East Asia’s 2 billion people. We long to see many workers sent out to East Asia, men and women of faith, all on fire for God and consumed with a passion for His glory and effective in His service. We work to see biblical communities of believers rising up among unreached people groups in East Asia. We plant churches that have a vision to plant more churches, reaching out to people in their own culture as well as crossing cultures themselves. Our workers develop friendships with local people, serve in churches, learn local language and culture, go as professionals, teachers, church planters, and serve in various supporting roles. If you have the right skills and abilities and a sense of God’s call, we can place you. How can you help? If you have a passion for the peoples of Asia we’d love to talk with you! Back to ListSIM Australia Contact David Hammer 02 8568 8800 SIM is a dynamic team of men and women from all over the world, committed to making Christ known. With approximately 1600 missionaries working in over 45 countries throughout Africa, Asia and South America, SIM is as diverse as the people we serve. We facilitate missionaries from anywhere to everywhere, working in an almost unlimited range of ministries including sports evangelism, church planting, media ministry, medical and educational, aid and development, English teaching and business ministries. In partnership with others in the body of Christ we seek to establish a mature church in the world through planting, strengthening and partnering churches. Back to ListTrans World Radio Contact Garrison Pearse 1300 123897 or 03 8060 6055 TWR is the most far reaching ministry of its kind across the globe, speaking fluently in 200+ languages and dialects, TWR’s media outreach engages millions in 160 countries with biblical truth using all means of media. But it’s not just about radios and techie stuff, there’s plenty of other ways to be involved in such an amazing mission. It takes a real team effort to realise the vision to reach as many people as possible with the hope of the gospel. So whether you’re a skilled professional/worker, have valuable life experience, a college student, a family, a retiree, or someone in between, God can use your skills to further His kingdom by serving in missions. Knowing no cultural, geographical, religious or political boundaries, TWR provides relevant programming, discipleship resources, holistic projects and dedicated workers to spread hope to women, children, church leaders and communities as part of leaving a lasting spiritual footprint. To help define your potential, consider our mission opportunities, today! Back to ListWEC International Contact Mobilisation 1300 788 566 Imagine… You in a WEC team: Reaching People, Planting Churches. Reaching Unreached People who have no choice, access or opportunity to encounter Jesus & His followers. In over 100 locations worldwide, using your God-given skills, gifts & personality. Planting Churches: Sharing the Gospel, Walking with people in discipleship, Gathering people into groups called ‘church’. You can make a difference: we’ll prepare you and your church well. Contact us to talk about how. Back to ListWycliffe Associates Web: http://www.wycliffe.org.au/join-us/wycliffe-associates/ Contact Peter & Yvonne Gillespie 0427 059 662 or 663Every day, Bible translators the world over find themselves pulled away from their primary responsibility – translating the Word of God – to deal with tasks that, while important, can be accomplished by others. For example: construction and/or building maintenance, office and bookkeeping, airstrip maintenance, teaching, being house parents for missionary kids, vehicle repairs, etc. Wycliffe Associates are volunteers who help with these things. Do you know there are over 2000 languages that still do not have any portion of the Bible translated? We help to accomplish this task by contributing our skills and resources to support Wycliffe Bible Translators Australia and SIL in practical ways. Although volunteers desire to see God’s Word translated for the Bible-less peoples of the world they are not translators themselves, but they can use their God-given talents and skills to support translators in Australia and overseas so the translators can get on with their primary task. Volunteers can join work parties for 3-4 weeks, or serve for longer periods up to 2 yrs. Whether you are young or retired – or anywhere in between – volunteering with Wycliffe Associates is a great way to serve God, support the task of Bible translation and experience other cultures through practical help. Back to ListWycliffe Bible Translators Contact Jenny Willetts 1300 362025 At Wycliffe, we seek to satisfy a global hunger for God’s Word. That’s our vision and our mission. Because we love people and the Word of God, we want to make the Good News available to people in every language. And we have a deadline.We want to see a translation project begun in every language that needs it by 2025. It’s about touching the lives of the marginalised. It’s about you and me making disciples and making a difference, together. We’re a movement that believes in doing whatever it takes to see God’s Word in every language group: praying, financing and going. Back to ListYFC Senior Servants Web: http://www.yfc.org.au/Locations/Overseas/SeniorServants.aspx Contact Jane Knowles 03 9807 4111 Additional website: http://www.yfc.org.auYouth For Christ has a valuable role for “seniors”! Senior Servants offers short term mission opportunities to people aged 50+ for mentoring and pastorally working alongside young YFC indigenous leaders in developing nations who are at the forefront of mission. Senior Servants can help them reach their full potential as they ride the next wave of mission. They can spend between two and three months, living and working alongside the national staff of YFC, They will be praying with and for them, mentoring and encouraging them, equipping, resourcing, affirming and protecting them and allowing them to lead. Senior Servants will need to be mature Christians, independent, adaptable, communicators, servant-hearted, no agenda of their own, dependable and clear-thinking. Additional skills will be varied and valued, but THE MOST IMPORTANT things you will be giving will be yourselves and your ability to live and walk through life with the YFC staff, listening to their stories, building them up to serve Jesus Christ. Where we serve depends upon the needs of YFC International at the time. Associate Partners Web: http://www.asianoutreach.org Contact Antonio Chan 02 9417 0500 Asian Outreach is an alliance of interdependent Christian ministries worldwide. The Alliance is bound together by a common faith in Christ and commitment to the ministry of the Gospel to Asians. It is a Christian, NGO that has been empowering and transforming the lives of needy Asians for the past 40 years. Operating in 18 nations across the region, Asian Outreach functions holistically to offer diverse initiatives to disadvantaged and developing communities. You can volunteer, pray, partner and donate. We currently need short and long term volunteers. Aztem Inc Contact Dr Ian Grant 03 9535 7000 (c/o Stockdale ACS) AZTEM’s purpose is to encourage and help Christians to become effective Tentmakers, working in a culture other than their own, especially where people do not have ready access to the Gospel. Back to ListChinese Church Support Ministries Contact David Ryan 02 9533 4096 CCSM is active in many areas of mission, serving, strengthening and supporting the church and people of China. We provide a track for Christians from around the world to serve in China short- and long-term. If God is speaking to you about serving in any of these ways we’d love to hear from you. Back to ListIntercultural Training Associates Contact Kim Hood / Juanita Anderson 07 3369 1296 Being an Australian and speaking English is a God given gift. Do you know that you can help reach out to the thousands of international students living and working in Australia each year, and the billions of non-English speaking people living around the world? If you’re interested in using English as a gift and tool in ministry in your home town, or theirs, then Intercultural Training Associates (ITA) is for you! ITA offers you the opportunity to train to be an English teacher in a course designed specifically for ministry! Cert IV in Teaching Conversational English 30664QLD ( full TESOL course) and now a new COMBO Cert IV in Training and Assessment TAE40101 and Cert IV in Teaching Conversational English 30664QLD. We love teaching people who see English as a gift to be shared. We help train people to be teachers of excellence and to be passionate about teaching. ITA runs a variety of English ministry support tools as well like short courses and training days. Our training is competency based so we don’t give up on anyone! We help you with supervised teaching practice with English learners in a supportive environment. We employ experienced cross-cultural trainers and all trainees are provided one-on-one mentoring for the duration of the training. If you’re interested in using English as a gift and tool in ministry then check out our website. ITA – Training English Teachers Internationally and Releasing People into Ministry Back to ListMukti Australia Web: http://mukti.org.au/ Contact Glenda de Jager 03 9890 0211YOU can help bring hope… and build a future! Mukti India is a community of ‘Christ centred’ homes where destitute women and children irrespective of their background are accepted, cared for, transformed, and empowered to be salt and light in the society. This includes babies, children, primary & secondary aged girls, young women, senior women, girls and women with a disability – blind, physically and/or mentally challenged. Mukti has a kindergarten, Marathi primary school, English primary school, Manorama Girls High School, vocational training, computer academy, nursery and adoption program, community day care centres, expansion homes in 6 states, medical and hospital programs, community development, marriage program and church, conference and retreat centre. Mukti Australia involves Australians in empowering and transforming the lives of destitute and abandoned girls and women in India, through prayer, sponsorships, partnership in projects and volunteering. Short termers spend 2 weeks to 6 months volunteering at Mukti. Roles are according to the skill and gifts of the volunteers and the current needs at Mukti. There are lots of exciting ways to be involved! Contact Glenda for more details. Back to ListServants to Asias Urban Poor Contact Robyn De Vere 07 33673802 The urban poor are the largest and neediest unreached people group confronting today’s church. Servants to Asia’s Urban Poor is an International movement – a network of Christian teams living and working amongst the urban poor in Asia’s mega cities, participating with the poor to bring hope and justice through Jesus Christ. We seek to empower them by forming partnerships and networks, developing disciples and servant leaders, founding and nurturing Christian communities, facilitating community transformation, showing mercy and opposing injustice. We currently have field teams in Cambodia, the Philippines, India, Indonesia and Myanmar. Servants is a faith mission and all workers raise their financial support from their local churches and friends. Opportunities to minister amongst the poor are limitless, but perhaps more important than the job skills themselves are the character attributes you bring to the field such as: strong relationship with God, adaptable, humble, teachable, hardy, sacrificial, and confident. Opportunities: Back to ListSteer Incorporated Contact Richard Dickins (03) 9899 6413 Make your missionary giving increase through STEER. Steer is a Missionary Program based on the PARTNERSHIP principles of the New Testament, with a vision and burden to help reach the unreached with and for Christ. Steer is a not-for-profit, income tax exempt organisation, which raises finance for missions and outreach activities overseas and in Australia. It does this by enabling individual supporters to give to missions in a tax effective way, thereby maximising their giving. Steer operates in 5 areas:- Interest-free loans, Rental properties, Livestock, Crops and Discretionary trusts. Since its foundation in 1961, more than 30 million dollars have been channelled into the missionary task. Back to ListThe Leprosy Mission (Qld) Contact Fred Bruinsma 07 32632792 Many people effected by leprosy suffer from lack of choice and are usually powerless to change their situation.TLM wants to help them enlarge their choices and to encourage and enable them to take part in decisions effecting their lives. TLM’s goal is empowerment; not dependency. Empowerment enables each person affected by leprosy to reach their potential as a full participant in their community, which gives them pride, dignity and a sense of worth. In the end, we want to hear people say, “I’ve been cured of leprosy AND I am a valued and respected person.” We work in 29 countries worldwide and TLM Australia concentrates its focus of work within India, Nigeria, D.R Congo, Papua New Guinea, East Timor, Nepal, Thailand and Myanmar. Over 2000 national & international staff, work together to provide appropriate medical, educational and other services to meet the many needs of people affected by leprosy. While most of the workers with TLM are medical professionals there are other ways to support TLM. Try the Trek for Treatment, become a participant in the annual Ride for Rehab, or Recykle, or go on a trip with TLM and return to help make the work of TLM more widely known in Australia. Back to ListYWAM Frontier Missions Contact Rej Mack 0430308900 Additional website: http://www.harvestmultiplication.com/ “Frontier Missions” is one of the largest branches of “Youth With A Mission International” (YWAM), focusing on church planting among the unreached peoples of the world – those who have had no opportunity to hear the message of life. Is God stirring your heart and giving you a burden for frontier missions — for starting new churches where none exist, among the unreached people groups of the world? YWAM Frontier Missions can help you make a difference by praying, giving, going short-term or long-term to share the love of God, adopting an unreached people group, or telling others about the opportunities.
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