Your Career. Your Calling. One Purpose.
The cities that have not been reached are not looking for missionaries — they are looking for professionals like you. GLS sends bi-vocational missionaries to serve long-term in Asia and the Middle East.
What If You Were Made for Both? Your Career Is the Key. Not the Obstacle.
Most Christians assume missions requires leaving their career behind. But the majority of unreached people groups live in countries that deny missionary visas — and they are wide open to engineers, educators, healthcare workers, and business professionals.
Your career is not what you do before missions. It is the key that unlocks access to the cities that have not been reached by the gospel.
There Is a Place for You. Whatever Your Season.
Your life stage is not a barrier. GLS sends bi-vocational missionaries at every season of life to the cities where the gospel is needed most.
Single Professionals: Building a career and a missional presence at the same time, in the same city.
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Married Professionals: Two careers and one calling. GLS helps couples navigate the field together.
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Young Families — Raising children overseas while planting Gospel roots in unreached communities.
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Empty Nesters: A lifetime of experience and a new frontier. The field needs your wisdom.
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Students — Choosing a career with the mission in mind, from the very beginning.
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From Discernment to Deployment. GLS Walks With You.
About half of GLS associates come with their own jobs. For the rest, we provide career counsel and referrals to employers and bi-vocational missionaries already on the field.
When you are ready, the process is straightforward — a preliminary conversation, application and a connection to your church and field team. GLS walks with you through every step.
Association dues are kept low so finances are never the reason you don't go.
You Are Never Alone on the Field.
GLS supports you before you go, while you serve, and when you return.
Pre-Departure Orientation
Daily life, cross-cultural adjustment, regional church history, and religious sensitivity. You arrive ready.
Year-Round Field Support
Two annual retreats, pastoral visits, regular care team contact, professional counseling, and monthly peer fellowship in your city.
Career Guidance
Seasoned GLS bi-vocational missionaries on the field offer counsel, networking, and practical support to keep your career sustainable.
Re-Entry Debriefing
Returning home has its own challenges. GLS helps you process your journey and prepare well for what comes next.
The Unreached World Needs What You Do.
Your career and your calling were never meant to be separate. GLS has walked this path with bi-vocational missionaries like you for 35 years. Take the first step.
Your Biggest Questions, Answered.
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No. GLS does not take a cookie-cutter approach. We counsel and connect bi-vocational missionaries to jobs and ministry opportunities, but associates enjoy considerable freedom in choosing what they do and where they serve.
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Start with a short-term trip. If you have visited the region before and sense God's prompting, we suggest committing at least two years to explore. The first year is adjustment. By the second, you will have built relationships and be better positioned to consider staying longer.
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If you are a student, consider how God has shaped and gifted you, learn about missions through vision/service trips that give context and inform your career choices, and let's talk about your calling and preparations for the field.
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GLS sends young families to the field and walks with them through every stage — school options, cross-cultural adjustment, and pastoral care for the whole family.
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GLS channels financial support from donors and provides tax-deductible receipts. Where roles are modest in pay, partial fundraising may be necessary. Association dues are kept low to remove financial barriers.