If you have even a small desire to go reach unreached people groups, you are a rare jewel! Act on that. If a church were to post on the internet a need for a new Pastor, they would have dozens of applicants in just a few weeks. There are comparatively few who feel the burden to go to the unreached. If this is you, act on that, and begin a conversation with us about getting trained. God will not accidentally lead you to the mission field if He has another ministry in mind for you. Remember, He planned which good works you would do in advance! (Ephesians 2:10).

Yes, but before you can receive support, you’ll need to be out of debt. Having a mortgage would not preclude you from receiving support.

Yes! And this is something we can help you with if you’d like.

We believe single women are one of the greatest untapped resources for finishing the Great Commission. Every team should consider the benefits of having a single woman as part of the team. Did you know that there are areas of the culture that may go undiscovered if a single woman is not part of a team? We encourage single women to learn the language, take part in bible translation, literacy, discipling other women, and if you feel called, to help with the schooling of the missionary children on your team.

We offer this! Our linguistics program is able to be shorter than others’ because we are focusing on a particular part of the world, thus reducing the need to expose you to all of the linguistic complexities in the entire world. We are able to walk you through the common language patterns and sounds made in Finisterre Languages, and get you on the mission field all the sooner.

Being fluent in the languages that the Bible was written would of course be very helpful. However, we don’t require this because there are a multitude of helps written in English that will be invaluable to you as you translate. We leave the final answer to this question up to the Pastors of your sending church.

We trust that God will lead you step by step towards the unreached people group that He has been planning for you to reach. We will watch with excitement as this happens and are here to help you if you need it.

Yup!

We actually structure the training around your availability, so you can apply anytime you’re ready, and we’ll begin the discussion on when to start training, and how fast to move.

We want to get you on the mission field as fast as possible. We have about 200 hours of intentional conversation that we need to have, and you have about 600 hours of things on your to do list to get you ready to go. We work with you depending on how available you are. If you are financially able to not need a job in order to meet your living expenses, you could get through the training in 4-6 months. If you are working full time, it will probably take 2 years.

Nope! We want you to be prepared and in PNG, where you can get busy learning a language, evangelizing, and shepherding believers. If you’ve already taken some classes or have life experience in any area that we offer, we are eager to check that off your list of things to do to get to PNG.

From the time you leave for PNG to the time you phase out of full-time work in the village should be about 10 years. Anything longer than that tends to foster an unhealthy dependency on you as the missionary and actually stifles the growth of the church. Realistically it will probably take about 15 years to translate the New Testament and key Old Testament portions. So, after you’ve been there about 10 years, it will be time to move out of the village and just have occasional checkup visits with the church. You could carry on the translation from a remote location, or better yet, equip the believers in your village to finish the translation. There are amazing helps available to assist you in this.