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Journey Corps Tracks
- Agriculture
- Alternative Energy
- Animal Husbandry
- Business As Mission
- Campus Ministry
- Children’s Ministry
- Church Ministry
- Computer & I.T.
- Counseling & Crisis Intervention
- Creative Arts
- Ethnomusicology
- Evangelism & Discipleship
- Facilities/Maintenance
- Justice & Compassion
- Leadership Development
- Medical & Health Education
- Multi-Media Production
- Sports Ministry
- TESL / EFL
- Translation
- Women’s Ministry
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Track Advisors
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Location: Bouake, Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa
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Location:Bouake, Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa
Description: “Going Green” isn’t just a good idea for the environment, it can also be a cost effective energy solution for most of the world. The world today is focusing on finding alternative energy sources to make our world a cleaner place to live. Even in the developing world, the need for a cleaner and wiser source of energy is in high demand. All the Journey Corps tracks are meant to allow you to exercise your gifts and your passions. Tracks can expand or adjust to your skills, passions, and to the needs of the community.
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Solar Electric: In West Africa there is an amazing amount of sunshine and very little of it is used for electricity. Development of low tech and well thought out means of capturing solar energy in ways that can be easily reproduced is an area of research and development which has huge potential. The Bouaké campus will provide an ideal setting for the research and development of solar energy use. An understanding of solar energy and how to best capture and dispense this energy will be useful for anyone desiring to follow this track. A basic understanding of the use of solar panels, deep cell marine batteries, AC converters, storage issues, and other related issues would be essential. |
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Alternative Diesel Fuels: With the big push in recent years for the development of bio-fuels, West Africa is the ideal setting for such efforts. West Africa, with its high capacity for producing vegetable matter in a very short time (harvesting, in some situations, 3 times per year) and its growing dependence on fossil-fuels, needs to develop its own fuels. With the rising price of crude oil and the growing disparity between the haves and the have-nots, any effort to counter this issue is welcome. Through the planting and harvesting of jatrapha, and other high oil content plants, the dependency on outside oil can be reduced and the quality of life in many places may be improved. An understanding of how bio-fuels are produced as well as their market potential would be necessary for anyone wanting to be involved in this track. |
Location: Bouake, Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa
Description:In many places throughout the world, farmers, ranchers, and sheepherders are experts in the areas of animal husbandry because they are taking care of a variety of animals according to their environment. Whether the practice is traditional or non traditional, animal husbandry is essential to the livelihood of an agrarian culture. You will learn how to engage the local communities by learning from their practice. All the Journey Corps tracks are meant to allow you to exercise your gifts and your passions. Tracks can expand or adjust to your skills, passions, and to the needs of the community.
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Traditional Animal Husbandry This track will tend to be more rural in its orientation. It is possible that there may be several sub-categories to this track. Due to the nature of life in West Africa there is little lack of understanding of how to best raise sheep, goats, chickens, cows, and pigs. The struggles are in the areas of feasibility when it comes to appropriate methods used. Most villagers know that a pig pen is the better way to raise hogs, but they seldom have the means and they often lack the motivation to keep the pigs penned up. Anyone wanting to work in this area will certainly have their hands full as they attempt to bring understanding to villagers and attempt to change current practice.
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Non-traditional Animal Husbandry Experiment in the raising of non-traditional livestock such as snails, cane rats, and bees. Snails are a rich source of protein and have many positive factors which make them an interesting investment for an urban situation. Cane rat is one of the most sought after meats in this part of the world, fetching prices of $10 to $15 per rat. It is commonly known as an “agouti” (not to be confused with the South American agouti which is an entirely different species) and is best known in Ghana as the “grass-cutter” which is its primary food. Developing this non-traditional source of meat which has such high value may be an important investment. Bees are the foundation on which most of food production is based on throughout the world. Bees are plentiful in West Africa, but unfortunately there has been little done in the way of developing good beekeeping practice. Most honey in West Africa is hunted and in the process bees are killed and hives are being destroyed, which is leading to poor production. This practice has made bees in Africa rather aggressive. If you should decide to follow this track, bring your smoker and outfit, because you will need it! A basic understanding of beekeeping methods would be good for anyone entering this track. |
Location: Bouake, Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa
Description: Use your understanding of business to help people improve and start small business. Help people plan and increase efficiency in their business practices. All the Journey Corps tracks are meant to allow you to exersize your gifts and your passions. Tracks can expand or adust to your skills, passions, and to the needs of the community.
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Small Business Incubator: Help local business men and women with basic business skills. You will create an environment that assists small business owners with strategic planning, book keeping, finance, marketing, and general management, etc. Join a team of 2 to 3 Journeyers in the heart of West Africa, developing this business track. Your task will be to walk alongside small business owners who work in a variety of professions to help improve the way they do business. When you join Journey Corps, the friends you make in West Africa and the lives you serve will change for the better. Through biblical study, leadership training, and ministry experience your perception of the world and yourself will change. New understanding, new insight. Each of us brings something new ... new strengths, new talents, new hearts.
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Production and Export: Help local business men and women develop products for exporting. You will assist business owners with strategic planning, production and packaging, and exporting. Join a team of 2 to 3 Journeyers in the heart of West Africa, developing this business track. Your task will be to walk alongside small business owners who are harvesting and manufacturing goods to help open new markets in the US, Europe or locally, and elsewhere. When you join Journey Corps, the friends you make in West Africa and the lives you serve will change for the better. Through biblical study, leadership training, and ministry experience your perception of the world and yourself will change. New understanding, new insight. Each of us brings something new ... new strengths, new talents, new hearts.
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Micro finance: Help local business men and women by offering small (micro) business loans (SBLs). You will work with business owners to help them prepare business plans and applications for SBLs. You will oversee the awarding and follow up with all SBLs. Join a team of 2 to 3 Journeyers in the heart of West Africa, developing this business track. Your task will be to walk alongside small business owners who are work in a variety of professions to help them grow their business, create sustainable jobs and help them promote fair business practices and involvement in community outreach. When you join Journey Corps, the friends you make in West Africa and the lives you serve will change for the better. Through biblical study, leadership training, and ministry experience your perception of the world and yourself will change. New understanding, new insight. Each of us brings something new ... new strengths, new talents, new hearts.
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Business Education: Help local business men and women by offering training and education on “Best Business Practices.” Join a team of 2 to 3 Journeyers in the heart of West Africa, developing this business track. Your task will be to walk alongside small business owners who need additional skills to grow their business and lead effectively. When you join Journey Corps, the friends you make in West Africa and the lives you serve will change for the better. Through biblical study, leadership training, and ministry experience your perception of the world and yourself will change. New understanding, new insight. Each of us brings something new ... new strengths, new talents, new hearts
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IT and Web: Help local business men and women by offering IT and Web related resources. Join a team of 2 to 3 Journeyers in the heart of West Africa, developing this business track. Your task will be to walk alongside small business owners who need assistance in IT and web design and maintenance to grow their businesses. When you join Journey Corps, the friends you make in West Africa and the lives you serve will change for the better. Through biblical study, leadership training, and ministry experience your perception of the world and yourself will change. New understanding, new insight. Each of us brings something new ... new strengths, new talents, new hearts.
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Management: Use your business skills to assist in the launching of Journey Corps. We need administrators to oversee several areas of the ministry from logistics of our service teams who are going out to serve to managing the finances for multiple projects. Join a team of 2 to 3 Journeyers in the heart of West Africa, developing this business track. Your task will be to walk alongside the leadership of Journey Corps to provide skills and leadership to grow the Journey Corps ministry. When you join Journey Corps, the friends you make in West Africa and the lives you serve will change for the better. Through biblical study, leadership training, and ministry experience your perception of the world and yourself will change. New understanding, new insight. Each of us brings something new ... new strengths, new talents, new hearts.
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Location: Bouake, Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa
Description: Bouaké is home to the second largest university in Côte d'Ivoire. Students, who attend the University of Bouaké for the most part, come from northern Côte d'Ivoire. There are numerous opportunities for anyone wanting to develop friendships with these students. Many of these students are seeking to improve their English skills and would be thrilled to speak with real live English speakers. The potential is great for anyone with the slightest desire to reach out to these students. All the Journey Corps tracks are meant to allow you to exercise your gifts and your passions. Tracks can expand or adjust to your skills, passions, and to the needs of the community.
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English Club: Universities in Côte d'Ivoire are notorious for student uprisings and general strikes. As a result students spend the majority of their time waiting for their professors to show up and dispense their courses. This means that there are many days when nothing is happening on the campus. Although it is not legal for a foreigner to teach English in any official class at the University (this is strictly reserved for Ivorian recognized professors), there is ample opportunity for clubs of many kinds which involve learning and practice opportunities. |
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Friendship Outreach: University life can be difficult for students who are often left to their own for weeks on end. It is in this sort of environment that mature God fearing young men and women are needed to bring the light of the Good News. Opportunities to struggle alongside other young Jesus Followers will be numerous. Secular university campus life experience is essential for anyone wanting to enter this realm of ministry/learning. |
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Location: Bouake, Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa Description: With the median age
of Ivoirian nationals being 19 years old, the majority of the
population is centered on the youth. Children teach us what
it means to love each other, to know God simply, and to have
faith. This track will lead you into all sorts of ways to
connect with the Ivoirian children and youth. Outreach to
children in the villages and orphanages will be a weekly
activity. Journeyers will work side my side with the Ivoirian
church to minister to this younger generation. All the
Journey Corps tracks are meant to allow you to exercise your gifts
and your passions. Tracks can expand or adjust to your skills,
passions, and to the needs of the community. |
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Location: Bouake, Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa
Description: It is our desire that everyone with Journey Corps will participate in the church activities in the local church in the region to which they are assigned. Obviously, because of the language issues, understanding will be a challenge. It is the firm belief of Journey Corps leadership: West Africa, that the best expression of the church is a cross-cultural one. Too often Christian expression becomes a part of what it means to be an “American”. Because of this, the true message of the Gospel often becomes clouded and is eventually lost. This same struggle is faced by any church and believers where Christianity becomes the majority expression. This internship and hopefully all of our internships are designed bring each volunteer to a place where he or she becomes intensely aware of what it means to be attached to God in the same way that King David was. All the Journey Corps tracks are meant to allow you to exercise your gifts and your passions. Tracks can expand or adjust to your skills, passions, and to the needs of the community.
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Working alongside national pastors: This track will be an intensive learning experience as whoever is involved in this track will shadow a local pastor or several pastors as they carry out their ministry. This will certainly be more than the simple sermon preparation and a few visits during the week. It may actually involve helping a given pastor as he harvests his cotton for the year, or accompanying him as he visits the different churches for which he is responsible (in Côte d'Ivoire it is rare to find a pastor responsible for only one church). This track will certainly include participation in weddings and funerals as well as normal church meetings scheduled throughout a typical week. |
Location: Bouake, Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa
Description: Use your understanding of technology to help people inside and outside of the local church. Help people learn the skills needed to maintain networks, do repairs, and keep up with technological growth. All the Journey Corps tracks are meant to allow you to exersize your gifts and yoru passions. Tracks can expand or adust to your skills, passions, and to the needs of the comunity.
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Location: Bouake, Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa Description:Africa has been devastated by war, famine, and poverty. In this track, journeyers will develop a program to reach out in cross cultural counseling to villages and people who are suffering from physical and emotional trauma. Through this track journeyers will also help counsel fellow journeyers through the Journey Corps Training Center. Reaching out to each other with Christ’s listening ear and healing touch will help create real, Gospel community amongst our team. All the Journey Corps tracks are meant to allow you to exercise your gifts and your passions. Tracks can expand or adjust to your skills, passions, and to the needs of the community. |
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Location: Bouake, Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa Description: Outreach using the arts has been an effective tool in cross cultural contexts. Through this track, journeyers will use worship, art, drama, and art education to bridge cultural gaps with the Ivoirian people. Also, there is a potential partner organization in Bouake that uses art therapy with women. This is an amazing opportunity for anyone who operates “out of the box”, and sees our God has the ultimate Creator. All the Journey Corps tracks are meant to allow you to exercise your gifts and your passions. Tracks can expand or adjust to your skills, passions, and to the needs of the community. |
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Location: Bouake, Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa Description:Ethnomusicology is the study of social and cultural music in local and global contexts. What that means for Christians doing ethnomusicology is worship. The goal is to help nationals learn how to worship God in a way that is relevant to their culture and music style. Often the tenancy is for new believers in another county to adopt western (american) musical styles, which may not be a heart style that allows the people to truly engage God. Journeyers will develop a program that allows them to learn the cultural dance and music of the various people groups in Cote d’Ivoire. This will be a cultural exchange, learning from the Ivoirian people and establishing relationships through music, dance, and culture. All the Journey Corps tracks are meant to allow you to exercise your gifts and your passions. Tracks can expand or adjust to your skills, passions, and to the needs of the community. |
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Location: Bouake, Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa Description: This track will work in conjunction with the local, national church’s existing initiatives for evangelism and discipleship. You will most likely engage in village outreach, leading bible studies in multiple contexts, and the discipleship of new believers. Working alongside the national church will teach you how to love the Ivoirian people as fellow children of God. Christ’s kingdom is global and what better way to experience His people then being in relationship with them, connecting to each other on a spiritual depth! All the Journey Corps tracks are meant to allow you to exercise your gifts and your passions. Tracks can expand or adjust to your skills, passions, and to the needs of the community. |
Location: Bouake, Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa
Description: One of the unique qualities of this track is that the facilities journeyers will find themselves working alongside experienced Ivorian carpenters, plumbers, masons, welders, electricians and builders who will certainly approach a job with a different perspective than that of a facilities manager in the US or Europe. Working alongside these men will be an occasion for the journeyer to speak into the life of those he is working with in the same way that those nationals with whom he works will speak into his life. The point of this track is not to maintain facilities, although it is hoped that the facilities will not suffer loss, but to develop relationship. Relationships will develop with both the nationals and the Lord through a practical hands-on approach to life through the use of shovels hammers and saws. All the Journey Corps tracks are meant to allow you to exercise your gifts and your passions. Tracks can expand or adjust to your skills, passions, and to the needs of the community.
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Journey Corps Training Center: Journey Corps’s West Africa base in Bouaké requires constant operational maintenance and improvements. There are continual carpentry and general building maintenance and repair issues on a campus this large. Electrical challenges are always present in a setting such as this. The campus phone and fiber optic network that serve the campus are also areas of great need. Journeyers with small engine repair and maintenance experience will find that there is plenty to occupy one’s time. |
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Partnership Maintenance: This track will consist of helping in practical ways at the various institutions that are attached to our partners in West Africa. These will range from simple schools to full service hospitals, nationally run facilities, and mission run facilities. It may include everything from grounds keeping and maintenance to full scale building and development, depending on the timing of one’s sojourn. |
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Location: Bouake, Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa Description: Cote d’Ivoire has been a country stricken by war, disease, and poverty. With about a half a million people living with AIDS, Cote d’Ivoire needs the hands of Jesus to care for its widows, orphans, and disadvantaged. This track will stretch you to build relationships with people that are completely different than you and that have lived in a reality that is different than your own. Journeyers will work alongside the local church to reach out to people who need the love and compassion of Christ. Journeyers will also learn about the various social justice issues in the region and how the church can respond to those issues. All the Journey Corps tracks are meant to allow you to exercise your gifts and your passions. Tracks can expand or adjust to your skills, passions, and to the needs of the community. |
Location: Bouake, Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa
Description: This track will involve living and following classes with actual students on any one of the many leadership training institutions located throughout West Africa. Leadership training is the greatest need in the church in West Africa. This is taking place in a number of places in numerous ways, but not any one method of approach has been necessarily efficient. Leadership training is a hard and expensive enterprise. This is one of the main reasons why there are so many pastors in West Africa responsible for so many churches.
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Leadership Training/Partnership: During this track journeyers will also follow courses designed for them in English as well which we hope will be transferable to a number of leadership training institutions in North America and Europe. Following students through classes here will also give Journeyers a deeper appreciation for the deep struggles facing leaders in this part of the world by giving them perspective for leadership they would never otherwise find following a simple leadership training track in their home country. |
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Location: Bouake, Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa Description: Reaching people through medicine is the most effective way to share the love of Jesus to impoverished people groups. In this track there is no end to the opportunities and possibilities! You will engage in hospital and clinic work, medical outreach to villages, nursing, first aid, pharmacy work, and midwifery. You will work alongside Ivoirian nurses, pharmacists, and doctors, helping them and learning from them. You also may get the experience of teaching health education in national schools and churches. All the Journey Corps tracks are meant to allow you to exercise your gifts and your passions. Tracks can expand or adjust to your skills, passions, and to the needs of the community. |
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Location: Bouake, Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa Description: It will be hard to try and accurately capture your life in Cote d’Ivoire. However, in this track you will learn how to produce videos, manage websites, and use photography as a tool for your ministry. Once you are engaged in the Ivorian culture and community, you will find that there are so many beautiful stories to tell. Capture these stories through the use of multi-media production as a way to link people back home to your life abroad. All the Journey Corps tracks are meant to allow you to exercise your gifts and your passions. Tracks can expand or adjust to your skills, passions, and to the needs of the community. |
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Location: Bouake, Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa Description: The role of sport throughout the world is monumental. Whole countries depend of sports for their sense of nationalism and belonging. Because of this, sports ministry is one of the most influential tools Jesus uses to influence people’s lives. This track meets people where they are at in an area they are already involved in. In West Africa, soccer is everyone’s pastime. From the urban areas to the villages, soccer is a priority among the youth. By using camps, clinics, and leagues you will be able to establish relationships with the Ivoirian people. Through these relationships you will learn more about the Ivoirian culture and be able to share your culture and the hope that is in Jesus Christ. All the Journey Corps tracks are meant to allow you to exercise your gifts and your passions. Tracks can expand or adjust to your skills, passions, and to the needs of the community. |
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Location: Bouake, Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa Description:Young people throughout the world have a desire to learn English. This track will place journeyers in local schools and churches to work alongside national English teachers. You will also have opportunities to develop English camps and English clubs alongside local schools and churches. This tack will be similar to the Campus Ministry track, but it will be focused more in public schools and churches so that the community can gain access to English as well. If you are certified in TESOL this is the track for you! As you teach English you will also be able to learn the many languages of the Ivorian people. This track will hopefully become a cultural and language exchange between our two countries. All the Journey Corps tracks are meant to allow you to exercise your gifts and your passions. Tracks can expand or adjust to your skills, passions, and to the needs of the community. |
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Location: Bouake, Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa Description:Many local people speak a variety of languages, but cannot read them because those languages are not written ones. Also, a lot of people groups do not have the Word of God in their native tongue. Through this track, journeyers will partner with other organizations to help translate various materials, including the Bible. They will also have the opportunity to teach literacy in the cities and villages. This track will require you to learn and be competent in a local dialect so that you can help translate and teach. All the Journey Corps tracks are meant to allow you to exercise your gifts and your passions. Tracks can expand or adjust to your skills, passions, and to the needs of the communit. |
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Location: Bouake, Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa Description:Women in different cultures sometimes do not have access to the same opportunities as men do. They often lack in education, skills, and work experience. Through this track you will walk alongside Ivoirian women, empowering them by educating them in various skills and disciplining them in Jesus. You will learn all the various issues women face in this region, so that you will be able to connect with them cross culturally and build life giving friendships. All the Journey Corps tracks are meant to allow you to exercise your gifts and your passions. Tracks can expand or adjust to your skills, passions, and to the needs of the community. |
