User:Ventrescan/Sandbox

A Pastor of Missional Outreach with a Professional Engineering license is a position within a church that develops and leads a team of skilled individuals (architect, engineer, contractor, etc.) to solve a need within a community while ministering to the people on a daily basis. This individual is affiliated with a church rather than a particular organization. When not away on mission trips, they may conduct Sunday morning sermons to the congregation. The position would require to two sets of titles; Profession Engineering license and an ordination from the respective church denomination.



Professional Engineering License
First as a Professional Engineer one must acquire a Bachelors degree from an accredited Engineering school. After obtaining a degree, the individual must complete the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) Exam. From there they must go on to complete 2-4 years of working under an already licensed Professional Engineer. The Professional Engineer then approves the individual to take the Professional Engineering (PE) Exam. The test cannot be taken unless the Professional Engineer has confirmed the individual is ready to do so. Also, the test cannot be taken until the FE exam has been completed and passed. Only then is the individual given the title of a professional Engineer.

Ordination
The ways to ordination are a lot more subjective. The ordination process varies from church to church. Most, however, do require obtaining a Masters of Divinity from an accredited Seminary college. Once that is completed, each denomination handles the ordination process differently. Some make the individual take a test on the particular denomination, while others make the ordination process specific to the church itself.

Missions
There are a few different types of missions that occur in a church community. The first is a short term missions trip. These trips last for a week or two at a time and involve small groups of 10 to 20 people. These groups can be small groups within a church a high school group, middle school group, or college group. Each individual is responsible for acquiring their own funding for the trip.

The next type of mission is a Long Term Mission. This group typically plant themselves in a community for close to a month or as much as a year at a time. They are funded and supported either by their own earnings or by the church budget.

The last mission is considered a permanent mission. These missionaries have relocated and have permanently positioned themselves with their families in a crisis area. They are more often than not, fully supported by an organization or church. They can stay positioned for years at a time in the same community.

Each of these different mission groups fulfill basically the same purpose. Minister to the people and help them with a need within the community. All of these teams will need the help of a Pastor of Missional Outreach to develop the needs within a community.

Need
After acquiring a the title of being both a PE and an ordained minister they are then capable of holding the position of Pastor of Missional Outreach. There are many pastors in today’s churches that hold this position who are passionate about reaching out to people in need while also talking to people about Christianity. They assemble teams to go into an inner city or third world nation to help those in need. However, in most circumstances the individual holds only the title of being an ordained minister. When it comes time to engineer something for the community (houses, water pipelines, churches, schools, etc.) the Pastor is forced to outsource to a licensed individual before construction can begin. The middle man can be skipped and money can be saved if the Pastor is already a licensed individual; legally capable of signing off on the plans.

Where Position Exists
World Vision is a Christian based organization that facilitates a working community in different places all over the world to help areas in need. During the week of serving while signed up in a program hosted by World Vision, there is a message each night that is presented to the group. [1] This message is given by either a local churches head pastor or a pastor that is involved with the World Vision staff. It is rare however that this person is involved with the construction in any way. They often will just be signed on to talk to the skilled people that are signed up for the trip.

Roles
While the Pastor is not on a missions trip or planning for one, they are expected to be a fill in speaker on Sunday mornings at the church. Along with preaching to a congregation on Sunday mornings they will be involved with numerous other administrative decisions that determine the direction of the church as well as activities and outreach programs within the local community. The main role for this position is to be able to supply the different type of mission teams with drawings and prints for construction and development that needs to take place in the community without having to pay for the skills of an engineering subcontractor. They can also be planted within the missions team as well to lead the group in both the field of ministry and construction.