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

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 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.

3 years | 9/1/2010 – 8/31/2013 | $2700 Monthly | led by Abigail Sutton | Application due 7/31/2010

As with most InnerChange ministries, the goal is relationship! In Romania there are currently a couple venues for building relationships: Steps of Hope and a small neighborhood church. Steps of Hope is a tutoring & mentoring program for junior high & high school students, with opportunities to be involved with English, sports, art, or other areas of knowledge. “Crossroads Church” is reaching out relationally within our poor neighborhood, so time will be spent both with church members and young people from the neighborhood.

Some of the greatest needs here are emotional, and one new area which is being focused on is prayer – both with and for others.

Participating in team life, spiritual formation, and learning both the culture and the language will be the main focus for the first year.

Requirements:

• spiritual maturity
  flexibility
  willing to spend time learning Romanian
  enjoyment of people, especially youth

Preferences:

• works well independently
  experience with healing prayer

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+