At a Glance
The Opportunity
Help a local church grow in maturity and mission.
The Missionary of Discipleship and Mobilization supports To Every Tribe’s mission to extend the worship of Jesus to every tribe in Southern Mexico by working under the guidance of the Field Director. This role focuses on working within the network of partner churches to edify, strengthen, and mobilize a specific platform church in Oaxaca.
You will invest deeply in a local congregation to build spiritual maturity and prepare the body for active outreach and leadership.
Mobilization means helping the local church send and support disciple-makers. Strengthening the platform congregation prepares local believers for outreach and participation in the wider regional church-planting work.
Here, mobilization means helping the local church send and support disciple-makers through prayer, preparation, encouragement, and practical partnership in gospel outreach.
What You’ll Do
- Team Collaboration: Collaborate with fellow team members to expand the reach and impact of the Southern Mexico ministry in Oaxaca.
- Church Membership: Actively participate as a dedicated member of a partner church in the Oaxaca City metro area, serving and building up the church community with humility, patience, and love.
- Relationship Building: Serve faithfully within the church to establish trust and credibility, serving faithfully and accepting responsibilities entrusted by local church leaders.
- Teaching & Preaching: As trust and opportunities develop, teach and preach within your local church and be open to teaching in other partner churches to support and strengthen the entire network.
- Ministry Mobilization: Partner with church leadership in evangelizing the lost, discipling current believers, mobilizing the church body, and training future leaders.
- Logistical Support: Assist with the coordination and support of short-term mission teams and volunteers, helping them integrate into the culture and contribute meaningfully to ministry objectives.
- Team Engagement: Participate regularly in team meetings, coming prepared to discuss progress, challenges, and new ideas, and actively engage in prayer and planning for the ministry’s goals.
- Conflict Resolution: Commit to being a peacemaker within the team and church, actively seeking to resolve conflicts with grace and humility, fostering understanding, and promoting unity through prayer, open communication, and a spirit of reconciliation.
- Language Mastery: Set aside regular time to study Spanish, always seeking to achieve a higher level of mastery of the language.
Who We’re Looking For
- To be in agreement with To Every Tribe’s mission, distinctives, and Statement of Faith.
- Commissioned, Licensed, or Ordained by a Sending Church.
- Strong written and verbal skills.
- Capacity to teach and preach, and willingness to contextualize to the local culture.
- Personable: reasonably outgoing and able to converse with a wide range of people.
- Committed to be a full-time learner.
- Able to work well in a team-based environment.
- Proficiency in Spanish or willingness to dedicate significant time to language study, with a commitment to cultural sensitivity and adaptability.
- Willing to live within the region to fully engage in the life of the local church, the network of partner churches, and the surrounding community.
- Able to handle differences on secondary doctrines with grace and patience, trusting in the Holy Spirit and the power of God’s Word to bring transformation, while fostering unity and focusing on primary gospel truths.
- This position requires the employee to live within the community where they serve to fully engage in the life of the local church and community.

Life in Oaxaca
Build trust. Share life.
Share daily life with partner churches and communities in Oaxaca, learning Spanish and the culture while serving within the regional church-planting strategy.
Missionaries rent locally with field-team assistance.
Families arrange schooling with field-team guidance.
The practical picture
Practical expectations
Start dates are arranged individually after preparation, funding, and field approval.
Full approved monthly support and one-time costs raised before departure.
Missionaries obtain healthcare coverage; costs are included in the approved support budget.
To Every Tribe and the field team guide visas, work permits, and residency preparation. Missionaries provide the required documents and raise the associated costs.
Required transportation costs are included in the approved support budget.
Preparation & support
You won’t take the next step alone.
Develop an appropriate training and practical preparation plan. This may include the cohort, an internship, an apprenticeship, or the one-year training.
Career missionary service may be pursued directly; a separate internship or apprenticeship is not a universal prerequisite. Field apprenticeship is a recommended supported first term for new missionaries: learn the language and culture, contribute to ministry, and serve under experienced missionaries with supervision, mentorship, and ongoing training.
Everyone has protected language-learning time tailored to the role.
Regular field-leader check-ins, with mentoring tailored to experience and needs.
Compensation
This position is full-time (40+ hours weekly) and is fully support-based. The worker is required to raise a team of financial and prayer partners to fund all salary, taxes, administrative fees, and ministry expenses.