Spend 6 weeks of your summer participating in spiritual formation and strengths-based learning alongside communities of refugees and the economically impoverished in Atlanta. This role serves laborers pioneering a work that integrates discipleship and community development within a neighborhood that is one of the most culturally-diverse in the US. Responsibilities include mentoring community members; building lesson plans; introducing mental health practices; and customizing community engagement based on the interests of the applicant. Applicants who value creation care, justice, trauma recovery, and poverty alleviation are encouraged.
This role will develop a holistic worldview in disciplemaking and value of God’s love for people pushed to the margins and facing vulnerabilities, and it will begin applying this knowledge and attitude in the context of local partnership or community mobilization as directed by the local Discipling for Development’s strategic plan. Orientation includes reframing questions in an appreciative way with storytelling as the primary means of communication.
Must be a high school graduate with proficiency in English. The local team values ongoing spiritual formation and practices in its members and short-term practitioners. A degree in community development, change management, social entrepreneurship, or intercultural studies would be beneficial but not required.
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