Ep. 16 - Switchboard: Using Your Skills for the Great Commission

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Description

How can churches and people in them increase their involvement in the Great Commission? Did you know you can be involved without leaving home! We learn from Julie Zavodny about the "virtual missions kits" available from Switchboard that makes it easy for you to use your skills and life experience to help global workers in their ministries. We’ll hear some examples of how God is at work and discover how He could use you, too!

Resources

The ⁠Virtual Missions Kit⁠ equips churches with everything they need to launch a virtual missions program—connecting skilled believers with missionaries who need their expertise. This free, step-by-step guide provides presentation tools, engagement strategies, and access to a global network of opportunities to serve the Great Commission remotely.

⁠Switchboard⁠ is an online platform that connects mission teams with skilled believers around the world. Through virtual volunteering, everyone can find their role in God’s global story and help move the Great Commission forward.

Sign up to volunteer on the platform by creating a profile!

⁠The Switchboard Skills Assessment⁠ helps believers discover how their unique skills and expertise can be used for missions.

Bio

Julie began her career in the finance world with GE Capital, but quickly became more interested in the systems that were used than the numbers themselves. So she transitioned to working with Ernst and Young, implementing financial systems, and then Turner Broadcasting, leading media system implementations.

After a decade, unable to balance raising children with the travel her job required, she followed God’s lead to stay home and raise her family. As her children began to grow up and become more self-sufficient, she longed for a way to do meaningful work with the skills she already had. Yet how could skills with system implementations ever further the Great Commission or contribute to work she found meaningful?

Getting to lead systems implementations at Switchboard is the answer! Nothing is more satisfying than seeing everyday believers use their unique skills and experience to meet the real needs of Great Commission workers.


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