Description

Religion workers include brothers, nuns, monks, religious education workers and others who provide support to ministers of religion or to a religious community and who perform certain functions associated with the practice of a religion. They may perform these duties in churches, synagogues, temples or other places of worship; in institutions such as schools, hospitals and prisons; or in industrial facilities, corporate enterprises; or they may work in private practice.

Job Titles

• Brother/sister – religion
• Christian science practitioner
• Deacon
• Missionary
• Monk
• Nun
• Pastoral animator
• Religious education worker
• Salvation Army field worker

Main Duties

• Assist at services of public worship and religious rites
• Provide religious education, spiritual guidance and moral support to members of a religious community
• Conduct outreach activities and facilitate community involvement
• Administer programs providing food, clothing and shelter
• May plan, organize and lead worship services and church activities for a specific audience.

Workplaces

• Churches
• Corporate enterprises
• Industrial facilities
• Institutions such as schools, hospitals and prisons
• Places of worship
• Private practice
• Synagogues
• Temples

Skills

• Social Perceptiveness
• Coordinating
• Decision Making
• Evaluation
• Instructing

Abilities

• Far Vision
• Fluency of Ideas
• Memorizing
• Multitasking
• Near Vision

Personal Attributes

• Concern for Others
• Social Orientation
• Service Orientation
• Active Learning
• Adaptability

Similar Occupations

• Religious leaders (41302)
• Medical missionary (in 31102.00 General practitioners and family physicians)

Source: OaSIS