Vocational Trainer and Discipler in Kazakhstan
Are you passionate about using practical skills as a means for discipleship?
If you are skilled in a profession such as construction, farming, hairdressing, mechanics, engineering or community health, come and share your skills at a vocational training centre.
Teach these skills to local people and equip and disciple local leaders.
Qualities & Gifts Sought
Enjoy teaching or coaching others in the skills you have acquired.
A degree and 3-5 years' experience are required to get a work permit, but there may be creative alternatives.
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It is an occupational requirement of any role with WEC International to have a committed evangelical Christian faith, because sharing your faith will be part of that role.
About Central Asia
WEC is involved in serving communities throughout Central Asia.
We are working in a variety of roles, alongside other Christian agencies, and with the local church where it exists. Our desire is to see the peoples of this region come to faith in Jesus, gathered into communities of believers, and discipled so that they can disciple others.
WEC’s diverse ministry in Central Asia includes missional business, education, English teaching, medical care and development work.
We cannot give details online about the countries, situations and opportunities we have found where you can serve in Central Asia, but we will be able to tell you more when you meet us face to face.
More about WEC in West and Central Asia
About Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan is the world's largest landlocked country, and the ninth largest in the world, with an area of 2,724,900 square kilometres (1,052,100 sq mi). Kazakhstan is the dominant nation of Central Asia economically, generating 60% of the region's GDP, primarily through its oil and gas industry. It also has vast mineral resources.
Kazakhstan is officially a democratic, secular, unitary, constitutional republic with a diverse cultural heritage. Kazakhstan shares borders with Russia, China, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan, and also adjoins a large part of the Caspian Sea. The terrain of Kazakhstan includes flatlands, steppe, taiga, rock canyons, hills, deltas, snow-capped mountains, and deserts. Kazakhstan has almost 18 million people.
Given its large land area, its population density is among the lowest, at less than six people per square kilometre (15 people per sq. mi.). The capital is Astana.
The territory of Kazakhstan has historically been inhabited by Turkic nomads. In the 13th century, the territory joined the Mongolian Empire under Genghis Khan. By the 16th century, the Kazakh emerged as a distinct group.
The Russians began advancing here in the 18th century, and by the mid-19th century, they nominally ruled all of Kazakhstan as part of the Russian Empire.
Kazakhstan was the last of the Soviet republics to declare independence during the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Kazakhstan's 131 ethnicities include Kazakhs (63% of the population), Russians, Uzbeks, Ukrainians, Germans, Tatars, and Uyghurs.
The Kazakh language is the state language. Russian is also an official language.
[Read more about this land on Wikipedia]
Kazakhstan has 66 people groups and nearly 50% are unreached with the good news of Christ
Islam is the largest religion at 51%. Christians number 21% and of those, 0.6% are Evangelical.
[source: Joshua Project]
Pray with us for:
The Kazakh peoples
Russians and Ukrainians living here
Freedom of religion
Believers in this land
Unreachied minorities
[Operation World print edition, 2010]
You can also pray online for Kazakhstan with Operation World
WEC projects:
WEC is looking for anyone with a heart to serve the peoples of this land. Use your gifts and share your life with others by teaching English or working in a profession. For example, construction workers, farmers, mechanics, engineers, community health professionals, school teachers, dressmakers, and hairdressers.
We need you!