Then you might be our new seafarer missionary in Ilulissat, Greenland's third largest city with a rich cultural and natural life. Your new workplace will be the Seamen's Home and Hotel SØMA, a 22-room breakfast hotel with a view of the Icefjord.

You will be part of a staff of 2-4 other employees (depending on the season) who work together to run the hotel. Your role as a deacon is to provide Christian welfare work for fishermen, hunters and sailors who visit the harbour in Ilulissat.

Your tasks:

• Seafarer mission, including daily ship visits, visits to the dinghy harbour, visits to port affiliates, visits to trawlers, cruise mission, etc.
• Diaconal activities that relate to the people staying at the harbour and in the city, such as visits to the prison and vulnerable citizens - as well as festive activities in connection with Christmas and Easter.
• Organising morning devotions at the hotel in collaboration with the hotel manager.
• Development of diaconal, evangelising and social activities independently and in collaboration with the regional leader, other seafarer missionaries in Greenland and Denmark.
• Management of and sparring with any volunteers.
• Maintain and strengthen contact with the local church and other city institutions.
• Weekly operational shifts at the hotel, as well as weekend shifts and filling in for the hotel manager when he is on holiday.

We expect you to:

• Is loyal, spiritually mature and has the courage to live and work in Ilulissat for several years.
• Are self-disciplined, prayerful and persistent because you understand that work is done in long term stretches.
• You meet people at eye level and with an open mind, because you are sociable and sociable and good at seeking out and building relationships.
• Good at planning and getting things started - and equally good at implementing initiatives and persevering when it can sometimes be hard to see the fruits of your labour.
• Will be actively involved in the life and operation of the hotel, also as a spiritual counsellor and sparring partner for the other hotel management.

With us you get:

• A close collegial community at the hotel and across the four Greenlandic Seamen's Homes, including through sparring meetings and collaboration with the other seafarer missionaries.
• Unique experiences in one of Greenland's and the world's most famous nature areas right next to the Icefjord and Disko Bay with plenty of opportunities for hiking, snowmobiling and sailing.
• Opportunity to make a positive difference for citizens, seamen, fishermen and hunters in Greenland.
• Space to be creative and independently develop the seafarer mission work in Ilulissat.
• You will be trained according to a set training programme

In addition, you also get:

• A newly built home from 2023 available in Ilulissat.
• Flight tickets and travelling with your belongings to Ilulissat.
• Paid for an annual holiday break to Denmark.

Contact Nicolaj WIbe on +45 23 69 96 64 or nw@somandsmissionen.dk for further information. 

CV and motivated application to: nw@somandsmissionen.dk

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