1. Serve with a mission agency that is channeling missionaries with engineering training to use their skills in a mission context. How well I remember my friend, Lawrence Emory, a civil engineer with a theological degree, working with the Presbyterians in Colombia. He was a pioneer, delighting in taking his half-ton truck into the remotest backwoods areas. He carried a sledge hammer and a huge iron spike to which he attached the winch on his truck to pull himself out of mud holes or across streams. I don't know how many church buildings he designed and erected. Often he carried a tent and boards for benches in his vehicle and set it up for evangelistic services in which he or young Colombians he was training would preach.
   
   Other agencies, such as World Vision [http://www.wvi.org/] or World Concern [http://www.worldconcern.org/] particularly focus on areas of relief/rehabilitation and training, so that they seek people like you with technical know-how.
   
   
2. Being a "tentmaker." That is a bi-vocational missionary who is self-supporting financially, but whose main purpose is to be in a cross-cultural context for the purpose of sharing the Gospel. If this is your interest, I would suggest that you begin by contacting the mission Global Opportunities [http://www.globalopps.org/]. They list as their goal: "to mobilize and equip missions-committed Christians to serve abroad as effective tentmakers, especially in countries of greatest spiritual need." They claim they can find jobs for almost anyone.

If you can make it to Urbana at the end of the year, you'll be able to talk with an enormous number of other mission agencies with whom you could explore your skills, interests, and vision for service.

May the Lord guide you!

Jack