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TORONTO BAPTIST INTERCULTURAL SERVICES SEEKS DIRECTOR

TBM's partner organization, Toronto Baptist Inter-Cultural Services, mobilizes and equips Christians for ministry to unreached people arriving in Toronto. The Board of TBIS has received with regret the news that the Dr. Robert Patterson, has resigned as part-time director of TBIS and taken new responsibilities with the Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec.The Board is therefore seeking applications for Director, to begin October 1, 2008. This a half-time position.

Qualifications:

• Live faith in Jesus as Lord and Saviour, sense of God's calling to mission, ministering to "unreached people" arriving in Toronto
• Some theological/Biblical/missiology studies
• Cross-cultural experience/understanding

Job Description:

• (25%) Leading and working with TBIS Board to develop and communicate a mission vision for TBM congregations. Administration (working with book-keeper and Treasurer and relating to churches to see that funding is in place. Partnering with pastors, BCOQ staff, CBM. Working with TBM to do PR. Holding monthly staff meetings. Preparing annual report for the Board.
• (25%) Visiting TBM churches: participating in services, doing mission events and promoting outward looking, multi-cultural basis for missional churches.
• (50%) Hands-on collaboration with a few churches reaching out to "unreached people" groups. Demonstrating mission so that many of our 80 Baptist churches may be involved.

Salary (To be negotiated) in the $25,000 range.

Interested persons may contact Bill Virgin at sawcentre@bellnet (905-790-0676)

VOLUNTEER ESL TUTORS NEEDED

Toronto Baptist Intercultural Services/Dixon Ministry, one of TBM's partner ministries, has about fifty volunteers engaged in helping newcomers, many of them Somali people, with English learning, vocational studies and public school courses. Some volunteers teach women’s ESL classes at an elementary school, or tutor men and women in their homes. Others help children at the local school homework clubs or at home, during school terms and summer vacations. Some help family heads, one-to-one, to acquire job skills and find work. Jeff McCarrell, the director, says requests from immigrant families far exceed the supply of helpers from churches. Training and mentoring is available for volunteers. If you're intested in volunteering, Jeff invites you to contact him (416-621-3152) and to come to prayer breakfasts, held every six weeks or so at Kingsway, and be inspired by the volunteers' stories.

VOLUNTEER AT FRONTLINES

Frontlines, a community outreach of Weston Park Baptist Church near Lawrence and Weston Roads, offers these opportunities to serve throughout the year:

• Drop-in volunteers to oversee and participate in games and conversation with teens.
• Maintenance help to complete a thousand little (and big) tasks around our building.
• Drop-in volunteers for "First Cup", a social time for patrons of the WAES food bank, located at the rear of our building. If you're available for an hour or so on Tuesday or Friday mornings, we invite you to join us to chat and help serve.
• Homework Club mentors for kids in grades 3 to 6.
• Short-term Missions Groups of 5 or 25, to run a kids club, do construction, or bring other benefits to Frontlines' kids.

For these and other opportunities contact director Kristy Grisdale or call 416-244-7017.

VOLUNTEER AT MATTHEW HOUSE

Matthew House in downtown Toronto provides temporary shelter and assistance to approximately 20 newly arrived refugee claimants from around the world. This vital ministry of "welcoming the stranger" depends on volunteers in the following areas:
Language translation
Orientating people to Canadian society
Being a friend
Teaching English
Cleaning
Cooking/baking
Driving/escorting people to appointments
Apartment searching
Repairs and maintenance
Garage organizing and cleaning
Donation pickup and delivery
Newsletter
Social events coordination
Grocery shopping for the house
Fundraising

If you would like to volunteer, please e-mail or call 416-364-8287.