We Need You! Team Members Are Needed Who:

• Are skilled or unskilled but willing to do what is needed.
• Have a spirit of adventure and can tolerate difficult living conditions without running water or electricity, and can handle hot, humid weather.
• Can accept the fact that they may not get the project completed.
  Want to grow in their Christian faith through an encounter with other Christians who have gone through much suffering, loss of property, and loss of family over the past fifteen years.
• Have a strong desire to serve others through a practical hands-on experience.
• Will be cooperative and willing to work together in the context of a group.

To participate in a workteam to Liberia or Sierra Leone and have a unique spiritual experience in ministering to one of the poorest nations in the world:

1. Write for (or download) and complete an application.
2. Be accepted as a team member.
3. Get two passport photos taken; four if you are applying for your passport. (Two are needed for your passport and one for Sierra Leone visa and two for a Liberia visa.)
4. Apply for a passport if you do not have one already. Check your post office for an application. You may also download an application form by clicking here. If you have a passport check the date. ( You need 6 months before it expires.) Also check the number of pages in your passport. You will need 4 blank pages.
5. Obtain an International Vaccination (Yellow) Booklet from your local health department or travel clinic
6. Get your immunizations:
Required:
Yellow Fever
Suggested/recommended:
Typhoid
Tetanus
Polio
Hepatitis A
Hepatitis B (if doing medical work)
Meningitis

Workteam Opportunities

• Building and refurbishing schools
• Building and refurbishing churches
• Building and refurbishing clinics/hospitals
• Other projects
  • Gbarnga School of Theology,  Gbarnga, Liberia
  • Theological Hall in Freetown
  • Refurbishing Lester Peak Guest House in Freetown,  Sierra Leone

Setting Up a Workteam Through Operation Classroom

If you're interested in organizing a workteam, follow these steps below.

1. Select and request a date and project. Contact the OC office for team leaders guide.

2. Contact the OC Office to confirm an open date at wagners@operationclassrom.org.

3. The OC office will assist in setting the budget and the payment schedule. Operation Classroom handles Operation Classroom VIM teams.

4. Keep in communication with VIM or OC coordinator in Liberia or Sierra Leone and the OC office

5. Select team members using the OC application. The OC office will send each team member a confirmation letter and preliminary information.

6. OC will assist in making the plane reservations.

7. The OC office will assist in sending construction funds. Should be sent 4 months before you plan to be there.

8. The OC office will assist in planning your orientation. They will provide the OC Survival workbook to West Africa.

9. Plan to use the book: BEFORE YOU PACK YOUR BAGS PREPARE YOUR HEART

10. Have at least 7 hours in orientation sessions; preferably two or more, or an overnight retreat. If you are in Indiana, the Operation Classroom Coordinators will lead your orientation session. Otherwise, Someone who has been to West Africa should lead the orientation. Preparing for West Africa is different than most places teams go

11. The OC office will assist in obtaining visas

12. Take your team to West Africa!

13. Have each member fill out an evaluation

14. Have a time to get together when you return

Project Costs

You will be responsible for the cost of the project.   

Tips to Remember

• Plan early
• Be flexible
• Communicate