IMB offers a unique, fully-funded, 2-year missions opportunity for young adults between the ages of 21 and 29. As a Journeyman, you can be sent by your church through IMB to join an international missionary team to share the gospel, make disciples, and help plant churches.

While all Journeymen are involved in evangelism, discipleship, and church planting, the specific role they play on a missionary team varies from person to person, team to team, and place to place. Responsibilities could include leadership development and training, volunteer coordination, teaching English, homeschooling missionary kids, sports ministries, working in coffee shops, community development, research and mapping, and a variety of other tasks. Regardless of the specific role, the primary purpose of a Journeyman is to contribute to the missionary task as part of an IMB missionary team.

There are standard qualifications that all Journeymen must meet. They must be active Southern Baptists, permanent US citizens (or possess a 10-year green card), affirm the Baptist Faith and Message, be between the ages of 21 and 29, and be physically, emotionally, and spiritually cleared to serve full-time with the IMB. Journeymen do not need college degrees, can be singles or married couples with no children, and they must work well in a team environment.