Frequently Asked Questions

Globe recommends that you plan to serve in a Globe SD (Short Duration of 3-12 months) or a Globe FX (Full Experience of 1-3 years) Intern service experience. We can help you find the right fit! A service experience of this length will help you serve a genuine need on the field within a trusted ministry, will give you valuable field experience, and will confirm that this IS or IS NOT a career possibility for you.

The apostle Paul said, “I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some (1 Cor. 9:19-23). Your attempt to adjust to other cultural preferences – food, customs, traditions, dress, forms and their meanings – will be uncomfortable initially but eventually will empower you to communicate and build genuine friendships with people of other cultures. You should be a life-long student of culture!

That depends on where and with whom you will serve. If the people are English-speaking you may not need to study a language. But, in every other case, you MUST learn another language. It is the only way you will ever have long term impact. Language skills help you make new friends, especially when they see how hard you are working to learn THEIR LANGUAGE so you can communicate from the heart with them.

YES. Globe partners with KCT to train our members in partnership development. There is a cost to this training, but our experience has taught us that the investment is worth the time and expense many times over. Partnership development is like learning how to play a musical instrument. At first it is difficult and unnatural, but eventually you learn how to make beautiful music (i.e. tell your story in an inspirational way so people WANT to partner with you!).

Fund raising, or “partnership development” is different for every goer. After you know your prospective budget, you will start building your potential donor base. Your connections with friends, churches, businesses and family members, plus your disciplined approach to telling your story, all determine how long it will take to raise your budget. Typically, a person or couple will develop partnerships (part-time work) for six to eighteen months and then (full time work) complete their fund raising for another three to six months before departure to their assignment.

An agency like Globe will help you assess your budgetary needs. Globe will look at your marital status (single, married, married with children), the place where you plan to live, the cost of living common to that area, the kind of ministry you will do (including schools, travel and other factors), initial set up costs, and the basic standard of living you expect for yourself. Then, with this knowledge, Globe will help create a target budget.

Get your house in order. Get out of debt. Be sure all of your primary relationships are healthy. Consult with your church leadership and ask them to pray with you. Contact Globe, start the application process, and ask us to guide and coach you in this important journey.

If you can, YES. Short term mission trips are a great way to confirm a call from God. A short term trip is NOT the same as a career, or even a one or two-year Internship experience (Internships last longer than the “honeymoon exhilaration” of a short term mission trip). But, short term missions can be a powerful way to experience Christ’s love for the world and opportunities for service.

Understanding the great themes of the Bible is a goal of every serious Christ-follower. Especially if you are called by God to preach and teach His Word, you should do everything you can to learn the Bible and understand its history and great doctrines.

Yes! There are many opportunities to learn about Christ’s global cause – at church, in many local and/or online Christian Bible Schools, colleges, and universities, through the Perspective Course and through mission books and other types of study material. Don’t be as concerned with getting a degree as becoming a life-long learner who is hungry to grow in your understanding of God’s World, the people of the world, and Christ’s Great Commission cause.

You should have at least a high school diploma (or equivalent GED) to apply for service with Globe International. Globe does not require you to have a college degree, but under graduate or graduate work is always a plus. As a pre-requisite for service with Globe International, you must satisfactorily complete the Perspectives course at a Certificate or higher level.

To pursue a call of God to ministry or missions service is one of the most important decisions you will ever make. It is worth all the preparation you can do. A solid personal relationship with Jesus, a disciplined habit of Bible study and prayer, an openness to the leading and promptings of the Holy Spirit, active involvement within your church, regular service and witness to your community, and a habit of giving your tithe and of financially supporting global missions are all essential foundations that will go a long way in getting you ready to serve in fulltime ministry in another culture.

Globe International does not require that you be licensed or ordained through an incorporated religious organization to become a member of Globe. Your sending church may require otherwise in order to support you in your ministry. This then becomes a matter between the individual and their sending church or fellowship, and will not have bearing on the application or acceptance process to Globe.

Every new Globe International applicant must be a member-in-good-standing of a local church and have their pastor’s endorsement. Globe expects its ministry members to maintain strong ties with their home church and supporters. Pastors are encouraged to stay involved with their Globe International ministers by providing pastoral leadership and counsel to them, as well as visiting them in their place of ministry. The church and Globe not only need each other; we are together a stronger support for the one who is sent.

No two partnerships between a church and Globe look exactly alike. Globe’s partnership resourcing and interaction is flexible to meet the needs of the individual local church. When a church begins a partnership with Globe, we offer the church leadership the opportunity to discuss what resources the church would like to have in this partnership.

Globe purposes to assist the church with its call to global evangelism. Globe comes alongside local congregations as a specialized agency providing cross-cultural expertise, world-view fellowship, missional guidance, and other services. Some of the services which Globe provides to church partner are, however not limited to:

• Assistance in Recruitment and Vetting of Potential Global Ministers and Evangelists
• Collaborated Affirmation God’s Call on Potential Global Ministers and Evangelists
• Candidate Assessment
• Cross-Cultural Training
• Biblical World-View Education
• Member Care
• Leadership and Accountability
• Media Training Resources
• CPM & DMM Partnership
• Global Ministry Network
• Support Funding Advisement
• Administrative Support Coordination
• Missional Church Culture Advisement and Coaching

Globe works diligently to provide administrative and ministerial services in conjunction with the churches its members represent. Globe leadership believes we have been called by God to work side by side with the local church to “Go… to all the world…making disciples…” With this in mind, Globe’s policy is to involve local church leadership, as much as is reasonably possible, in the decision-making process relating to any major ministry changes in life. Unless other arrangements are made with a sending church or fellowship, generally speaking, Globe assumes the primary role in overseeing mission personnel, in terms of the strategic and pastoral application.

Globe offers Member Care to each our members and their families. Globe provides Member Care in cooperation with each of our member’s personal pastoral oversight. By design, Globe seeks to underpin and strengthen the triangulated relationship of the member, their pastor, and Globe as an organization. Globe will work alongside the pastoral covering of its members, in order to achieve the greatest good for the member.

Globe promotes pastoral involvement in their global ministers, as well as requiring pastoral relationships for all Globe members. Globe welcomes consultation with pastors and carefully considers such input in relation to their member’s personal life and ministry. Each Globe member will be asked to complete a “Memo of Understanding” with Globe and their pastoral leadership. This document will clarify each party’s roles in the ongoing sending/supporting process. This strategic symbiosis requires that all Globe members are accountable to both Globe and their pastor.

Globe International partners with local churches in this process serving as a structure for the church to send forth disciples in spreading the Gospel. Globe serves to strengthen the local church by working in cooperation with its vision to fulfill the Great Commission. By offering resources, administration, collaborative oversight, training opportunities, sending mechanisms, and sustained service to their evangelists and global ministers, Globe creates a foundational path for the local church to fulfill is mandate in God’s call to love the whole earth.

God’s pattern for world evangelization was given to His people, and from the beginning believers gathered themselves into congregations for the purpose of nurturing, teaching, and outreach. One of the greatest examples of this comes from the church at Antioch in Acts 13:14, as the Holy Spirit sent out the first Christ-followers on mission. As a Christ- centered organization, Globe is guided by the scriptural evidence of the New Testament pattern for the church to ignite world evangelization.