7 week exploratory internship | 9/29/2010 – 11/20/2010 | cost: $1,400 | led by InnerCHANGE Boston |Application Due 9/15/2010

Team Description

InnerCHANGE invites you to participate in an exploratory internship in Boston, MA. Over the course of fifty days, you and your team will explore how an incarnational community might interface with the homeless youth community in Boston and Cambridge.

Team leaders, Tim and Alice Colegrove, have spent many years building relationships with these youth and local homeless service providers, and are now working with InnerCHANGE to explore the potential for a new team. Your time this will be spent building relationships with street youth, identifying larger systematic connections in the city of Boston, and helping to discern where God is moving and whether InnerCHANGE might be a good fit for the future.

What You Can Expect From This Internship

• introduction and orientation to InnerCHANGE as a missionary order
• remote & on-site supervision provided by InnerCHANGE staff and leaders
• neighborhood exploration in Boston and Cambridge, MA.
• relationship building with homeless youth
• identifying larger connections within the city of Boston
• regular team worship, prayer and reflection
• a mid-internship retreat for prayer & solitude
• a concluding report & debrief with InnerCHANGE staff the end of the exploration

* $1400 costs can be paid either out-of-pocket or by fund-raising

3 month summer internship | 5/1/2010 – 8/27/2010 | $3,500 |led by Urban Resurrection |Application due 4/15/2010

Team Description

The Urban Resurrection team is located in the West Coconut Grove neighborhood which is primarily made up of Bahamian, Jamaican, African American and assorted other Caribbean people groups. U Rez has a incarnational lifestyle and assumes a relational posture toward evangelism, discipleship and leadership development. The apprentice will aid the team leaders in developing a solid discipleship ministry focusing on Biblical manhood and growing young men into maturity leading them from the the captivity of drug, alcohol, and sexual abuse into freedom in Christ. This will all be accomplished using Asset Based Community Development and Community Youth Development as effective methods of empowerment and growth within the context of community.

This internship will focus primarily in helping new believers to grow in maturity and Biblical understanding and helping them to apply it to their lives in a street/neighborhood context. It will also include working in the arts, sports and community development initiatives.

Responsibilities

Mentoring and discipleship, teaching a weekly Bible study for young men/boys, supporting the efforts of staff in their community development efforts.

Requirements

Maturity, flexibility, teachability, initiative, ability to develop and leverage relationships well, ability to teach Scripture well in a street/neighborhood context

Preferences

Artistic, Pastoral gifting, leadership qualities, experienced in service among the marginalized.

2010 Guatemala Internship / September – 2-3 months / $ Costs TBD / Led by: German and Karla Avila

Further details about this 2-3 month internship with our team in Xela, Guatemala will be provided soon.

2010 Peace/Justice Internship

6 month internship starting between 1/1/2010 and 12/31/2010
| $800/month   Led by: Chris Baker-Evens |

Participate in advocacy, human rights observing, research, documenting story-telling and solidarity with a community facing illegal land seizure in Kampot, Cambodia in partnership with other development and human rights organizations. Individual project would depend on the skills/knowledge of the intern and the situation on the ground at the time.

Requirements:

• willing to spend time in language learning

Preferences:

• Applicants with experience in the arts (drama, visual, music) AND/OR web design/layout/cms AND/OR videography/editing are particularly encouraged to apply.

3 months | 1/19/2010 – 4/19/2010 | $1000 Monthly | led by Jose Penate-Aceves | Application due 1/1/2010

Comunidad San Dimas in San Francisco is a ministry of tough love. We seek out gangbangers, addicts & dealers and invite them into community by offering them true identity and freedom in Christ. For many of our neighbors, being stuck between two worlds is a harsh reality. We take to heart God’s call to love the prisoner, the immigrant, & the alien, making them welcome.

The San Dimas team spends a lot of time in juvenile hall, in Casa San Dimas (our transitional house), & just hanging out over food. We provide support for the dedicated CSD community based volunteers & we network between many different churches & faith groups (including the San Francisco Organizing Project). We jump on leadership potential and involve former gang members and crack dealers in Bible studies, English lessons, homework tutoring, and job-hunting. We’re also passionate about ecumenism (inter-denominational ministry) and overcoming differences within the community in order to strengthen the Body of Christ.

Requirements:

• High level or fluency in Spanish (determined by phone interview in Spanish)
  At least 20 years old
  Learning attitude
  Comfortable working with Catholics, Protestants, and Evangelicals

Preferences:

• Cross-cultural experience
  Comfortable with (preferably enjoys) church/community dances
  Night owl
  Musical abilities are very welcome!
  Couples willing to serve as ‘innkeepers’ in our transitional home are encouraged to apply

2010 South Africa Internship (Flexible dates) / $700 per month / Led by: Luc Kabongo

Live with a South African family, learn the language, and join our team ministries or pioneer new expressions of service.

Internship opening and length is negotiated with the team leader.

General Internship

Internship open: 6/3/2009 – 6/3/2014
Term Commitment: 6 months-12 months
|$ 1000/month   Led by: Chris Baker-Evens |

live with a Cambodian family and/or in a poor neighborhood in Kampot, Cambodia. Participate in team life, language learning and with either of our team focuses of contextualized discipleship or peace/justice project.

Requirements:

• willing to participate in language and culture learning and team life

Preferences:

• age 25+

Linguistics Intern

6- 12 month internship starting between 1/1/2010 and  12/31/2010
| $1800 Led by: Chris Baker-Evens |

work with Khmer staff to prepare a basic introduction to phonetics for new foreign staff learning Khmer, revise/edit and publish (in Cambodia) a diagnostic test of Khmer as a Second Language.

Requirements:

• Background in linguistics essential as well as basic computer skills.

Preferences:

• familiarity with Khmer or other southeast Asian language a plus