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.
1 year | 9/15/2010 – 9/14/2011 | $2100 Monthly |led by Urban Resurrection | Application due 7/15/2010
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.
Responsibilities
Mentor and disciple young men, leadership development/training/teaching, leading small groups and creating and sustaining long term community development initiatives. Leading outreaches to youth in urban context.
Requirements
Team player, teachable, spiritually and emotionally mature, willing to be mentored by the team leader and grown into increasing responsibility. Leadership skills and experience. Ability to self govern and initiate. Experience working among the marginalized and or in a drug/street culture.
Preferences
Enjoys the arts, male, has working knowledge on Christian Community Development. Understanding of leading people out of addictions. Counseling skills. Athletic and enjoys using sports for ministry such as basketball, football, or soccer. Spanish, Creole or Patois speak
2010 Venezuela 3 Year Apprenticeship
9/22/2010 – 8/1/2013 | $1,000/month Led by: John Shorack |
For those who’ve completed a discernment visit or an internship with InnerCHANGE and have a growing sense that God is leading them to work with us.
The apprenticeship incorporates the action of team ministry and experiences in the slums with guided times of reflection and learning with teammates. A special priority is given to your devotional life with God.
Requirements:
- Functional Spanish
Previous cross-cultural experience
Previous experience in poverty context
Loves people
Takes initiative
Teachable
Open to new perspectives
Open to Catholics and Charismatics
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.
South Africa Internship and Apprenticeship
2010 South Africa 3 Year Apprenticeship- 1st Quarter / $1200 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.
Before being accepted into the apprenticeship, applicants must visit the team.
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
1 Year | 9/29/2010 – 9/30/2011 | $1500 Monthly | led by Jim Bloom | Application due 4/15/2010
In Minneapolis we envision a group of kindred-hearted men and women driven by a passionate love for Jesus and his kingdom, joined together for the purpose of giving themselves to a kingdom rising through the reproduction of disciples, churches, church planters and church planting teams.
Along with the stated purpose of an InnerCHANGE apprenticeship, Minneapolis apprentices will be a part of a church planting team learning what is involved in starting simple, organic house churches.
Requirements:
- Has had previous experience in leading someone to Christ.
Has had previous experience in discipling another person.
Has had experience in leading a small group.
Has desire to learn about and participate in the planting of house churches.
The ability, at times, to initiate new avenues of ministry.
Preferences:
- Men in their mid 20\’s to early 30\’s with and interest in athletics.
Couples in their mid 20\’s to mid 30\’s with previous discipleship experience.
The above with interest in ministry to Native Americans or Muslims.
10 days | 4/20/2010 – 4/30/2010 | $1000 One time | led by John Shorack | Application due 3/15/2010
Requirements:
- Interest in InnerCHANGE and Latin America.
Considering long-term missionary service.
Basic knowledge of Spanish
