Offer Your Skills

“There are varieties of service, but the same Lord”  1 Corinthians 12:5

Do you have a passion for getting churches to work against trafficking? Could you help explain how trade agreements work, and how we can work with others to try to make them fairer? Do you have experience working with a congregation to put in place environmentally friendly programmes? Can you fashion poems or prayers or plays or pictures that move people to worship and to serve God?

We’d love to hear from you if you have gifts you’d like to offer CCOW. Our volunteers work in a variety of ways: some people offer advice in specialist areas when the occasion arises; some volunteer to take care of a specific task or create a particular kind of resource; some want to gain experience working in this area and offer us their time for a fixed period. We are grateful for the gifts people have shared over the years. At present, we’re particularly looking for people with gifts in:

WORK ON THE WEB

Do you have skills in working with websites?

We’d love to hear from someone who could help us with:

  • keeping our website up to date with new events, articles and pictures
  • evaluating how we could improve our site
  • thinking about design for new sections and materials

MAPPING CLIMATE ACTION

Could you help us map and connect people who are taking climate action?

We’d love to hear from someone who could help us with:

  • interviewing people in local churches who are taking climate action
  • creating links between churches and groups working on this topic, and/or
  • speaking to churches to inspire them to become involved

TALKING ABOUT TRADE

Maybe you’ve run a farm or other business that trades internationally. Maybe you’ve negotiated trade deals.

At a time when trade is at the top of the agenda, we’d love to hear from people who could help us:

  • evaluate trade policy as it emerges
  • provide summaries that clarify but don’t oversimplify
  • create networks for advocacy that can help make trade fairer

EXPERIENCE IN PARTICULAR COUNTRIES

In our prayer email, we cover situations in a number of countries.

Our staff, board and friends have experience in some … but there are others where we’d really welcome input from people who have studied or spent significant time there. If that’s you, please get in touch! We’d particularly welcome people with experience in:

  • Turkey
  • Syria and Iraq
  • Myanmar
  • China
  • Brazil