Spend 6 weeks of your summer learning to make disciples among the unreached ethnic minority people groups of the greater-Detroit area. You’ll have opportunities to live and minister among communities of refugees, immigrants, and the economically impoverished. Develop relationships with new Americans through serving their needs while engaging in cross- cultural relationships. Hone your skills as you learn from practitioners who practice and teach principles of community-based outreach and discipleship. You may volunteer with community organizations, and will certainly serve at an urban farm.
Orientation and training include (but are not limited to): An understanding and approach to poverty; proficiency in cross-cultural ministry; peacemaking; and storytelling.
Interns will serve alongside laborers pioneering a work that integrates discipleship and community outreach within individual households.
Responsibilities also include working well as part of a team, managing a budget, and flexibility related to the combination of relational and task-oriented opportunities necessary as you serve and minister.
Must be a high school graduate with proficiency in English. The local team values ongoing spiritual formation in its members and short-term practitioners.
A degree in community development, horticulture or agriculture, social entrepreneurship, sales/marketing, Bible, or intercultural studies would be beneficial but are not required. Additionally, those who value community-oriented work, creation care and stewardship, the outdoors, justice, and/or poverty alleviation may find this internship to be a good fit.
Proficiency in: Zoom video conferencing, Google Workspace, Documents and Slides
All roles will develop a holistic worldview in disciple making along with a value of God’s love for people pushed to the margins and facing vulnerabilities. This learning will take place through online group coaching with fellow cross-cultural interns in various locations as well as mentorship from the local team. Participants will begin applying this knowledge and attitude in the context of local partnership as directed by the local Navigator city team’s strategic plan. Participants will have the opportunity to learn a local language.
Roles at local businesses or non-profit community organization may include the following functions:
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