WorldconneX adds three staff positions

Posted: 3/03/06

WorldconneX adds three staff positions

By David Williams

WorldconneX

WorldconneX, a missions network Texas Baptists launched two years ago, is adding three staff positions to help churches send their members on long-term missions assignments.

The three new positions are team leaders for mobilizing churches, front-line services and systems support.

The team leader for mobilizing churches will challenge churches to engage directly in missions, provide coaching to help them be effective and plug them into affinity groups organized around people groups, geographical areas or missions approaches.

The front-line services team leader will provide cross-cultural training, consultation and connections with missions agencies and other groups on the mission field. In addition, he or she will help churches provide insurance, annuity and international monetary transfer for those they send.

Victor Upton joined the World-conneX staff Jan. 1 as systems support team leader. His responsibilities include website development, information services, financial business plans and infrastructures for missions engagement. Upton worked 19 years with American Airlines, where he was instrumental in developing its electronic ticket system.

The Baptist General Convention of Texas Administrative Committee approved additional funding last fall for the new positions to help churches engage more directly in strategic missions around the world.

“WorldconneX is not a missionary-sending agency,” said Bill Tinsley, WorldconneX leader. “Sending missionaries is the responsibility of the churches. Churches can fulfill that responsibility, as they have traditionally done, through missions agencies. Or, with some logistical and consulting help from us, they can set apart, send and support their own members whom God calls to missions. Smaller churches may want to join with other churches in sending those who are called.

“Front-line missions-sending chur-ches need coaches and partners to work with. They need cross-cultural training and strategy consultation. They need informational support and an infrastructure for handling logistics such as insurance, annuity and international money transfers. That’s where WorldconneX comes in. We are committed to becoming the go-to agency for churches who need help in sending their own people.”

WorldconneX will welcome resumes and recommendations for the mobilizing churches team leader and front-line services team leader until March 31.

For more information and job descriptions, visit the WorldconneX web site at www.worldconnex.org or call (214) 421-7999. Resumes and recommendations should be sent to Executive Committee Chairman, WorldconneX, 1409 S. Lamar, Dallas 75215.