Mid-Term Missions
A fresh approach to mobilizing the willing into mission for 2-12 months.
Is this for you?
PAOC’s Mid-Term Mission Program (MTM) is designed to place men and women in various international mission opportunities on a “mid-term” basis.
- Longer than a short-term team (2-8 weeks), and shorter than a long-term commitment, MTM focuses on opportunities between 2 months and up to 1 year
- Anyone 18 and over who wants to use their skills and interests in international work
- Some examples include: “gap year” students, college interns, middle-aged professionals, early retirees, etc.
- Plans are varied: some are investigating long-term mission involvement, some are seeking the adventure of travel, others are hoping to visit and support overseas friends, while many are in the middle of a change in life and are looking for the next steps
What will you do?
Following a positive short-term team mission, you may be inspired to pursue a longer international opportunity. You may have already contacted your former host and inquired about further volunteering. Others are open to new destinations and unknown prospects.
Most MTMs tend to volunteer for approximately 2-12 months, are self-supported financially, and go to support the work of a present career missionary or host.
Typical opportunities include:
- Health and Social Justice Issues, HIV/AIDS
- Professional and technical resources, proposal writing and project management
- Teaching, training, school administration
- Building, construction, maintenance
- Orphan care, children’s ministry, VBS, youth camps
- Church outreach, evangelism, street ministry
What about training?
New MTMs are often highly motivated and dramatically untrained, their desire outstripping their experience.
We will be requiring all applicants to complete our facilitator-based portfolio method of training before departure.
Each successful applicant will be paired with an experienced facilitator who will work with them throughout the pre-departure preparation, on field mission, and re-entry phases.