Finishers Canada urges retirees to consider mission
HAMILTON, ON - Finishers Canada's new web site now provides retiring baby boomers with a new tool for serving in their retirement.
"Seniors come with life experience and a fixed set of skills," says Henry Bell, Finishers Canada chair. "It would be easy for them to fit in to specific needs of mission agencies."
The five-year-old organization wants to help retirees - many of whom spent much of their working years in the secular world - "finish well." Finishers Canada helps them explore available mission opportunities.
"We have 2,000 workers around the world and we get requests every day," says Bell who is also the director of WEC (Worldwide Evangelization for Christ) International Canada.
The new web site gives people a chance find out what's available in short-term or long-term missions in Canada and abroad from any or all of the agencies that are members of Finishers Canada.
The web site provides a three-step process: a 10-question survey that helps people find their service niche; submission of a ministry service profile where skills and experience are matched with potential opportunities and completion of a proposal for service where seniors complete an application for Finishers Canada partner ministries.
What Bell finds interesting, though, is that not only are retirees finding ministry opportunities many younger people are making use of the matching process as well.
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