This media team will tell the stories of Rumantsch, Ladin and Friulian speakers in Switzerland and Italy through the collection of visual media resources, both still and video, while making friendships and engaging in spiritual discussions.
This team will travel to northern Italy and Switzerland visiting regions where Rumantsch, Ladin and Friulian are spoken. This team will document the area, language, and people through various media resources (photography, videography, journalism, personal interviews). Raw data will then be used to develop various media resources for the sake of education and mobilising Christians around the world to be involved in the work to reach Rumantsch, Ladin and Friulian speakers with the Gospel through prayer, support, and active engagement.
Good proficiency with photography and especially videography would be very helpful for this assignment. This is a very independent project. Those who require a great deal of direct supervision or instruction should not consider this assignment.
This team will be focusing Romansh speakers in the Grischun area (southwest Switzerland). Though we have been doing various types of ministry in the Celtic nations for over 20 years, Linguæ Christi has now embraced the call to address the spiritual needs of speakers of ALL the indigenous, minority languages in the European/Eurasian context (from Portugal in the West to Siberia in the East). Much as we have done among speakers of Celtic languages for all these years, we intend to begin new work with other European minority languages groups, organised by linguistic affinity. Over the next 2–5 years specifically, it is our desire to open new work in at least two to three new linguistic affinity areas. With that in mind, we would like to send some specialised teams of students to do some initial exploring in those areas and among those languages groups, where Linguæ Christi intends to open new work in the foreseeable future.
For more information about the different aspects of Discovery Teams—research, media collection, prayer and missional conversations—visit our Discovery page.
This is a very independent project. Those who require a great deal of direct supervision or instruction should not consider this assignment.
Regarding language, as the trade language is German, though not strictly required, it would be very helpful and advisable if interested students (1) already possessed some good proficiency in German before arrival, or (2) would be willing to commit to go through our “crash-course” (free and by distance learning) in German before arrival on field. No knowledge of Romansh is required or expected before arrival, as an intensive introduction to Romansh will be offered as part of the initial, on-field orientation.
This media team will tell the stories of Rumantsch, Ladin and Friulian speakers in Switzerland and Italy through the collection of visual media resources, both still and video, while making friendships and engaging in spiritual discussions.