Summer Missionary Intern
COMPANY: Adore Ministries
LOCATION: Houston, TX

DESCRIPTION

The missionary internship program is the best way to get a taste of domestic missionary life! If you have a call for serving others and God has placed a desire in you for living radically for the Gospel, this internship is something you should discern. We believe that when God calls people to mission, it’s because He seeks to transform their hearts and lives in a way only mission can accomplish. Over the course of this summer internship, missionaries will be formed, challenged, and pushed beyond their perceived limits to do great things for teens on the margins.

The 2023 summer internship will take place in Houston, TX from June 2nd – July 16th. Anyone 18 or older who has graduated high school and can complete safe environment training and a background check is eligible.

We will provide housing in a host home for the summer, a team to work with, fundraising and on the job ministry training, regular spiritual formation and accountability, human and professional development, ample opportunities to grow in skill and holiness.

PARISH PROGRAMMING

  • Run programming at the parish for the summer, with supervision and assistance from lead missionaries

WEEKLY TEAM MEETINGS

  • Time to meet as a missionary team, go over logistics for the week, and figure out any planning and preparation needed
  • Fundraising, goals, and dream day check-in

WEEKLY DISCIPLESHIP

  • The backbone of our ministry is one-on-one and small group discipleship with teens. Interns are expected to meet with teens every week for discipleship

DREAM DAY

  • We believe that we are called to mission beyond the walls of the parish and into the surrounding community.
  • Whether it’s a bible study in the juvenile detention center, serving the local homeless or any other dream of radical service, we work to accompany interns in identifying what sort of outreach God is calling them to do in their mission neighborhood, building a plan of action, and seeing the dream to fruition.

TEAM FORMATION

  • Weekly team formation to discuss summer reading books and check-in on personal prayer life and development

COMMUNITY

  • New Missionary Meals and participation in all-staff events
    Interns will be able to grow community within the missionary intern group

GOAL-SETTING

  • Set 3 ministry goals that are measurable and attainable and 3 personal goals that are measurable and attainable
  • Will discuss goals at weekly check-in meeting and be challenged to grow and attain goals

FUNDRAISING

  • Will receive fundraising training from Missionary Supervisor and mission team
  • Set a fundraising goal and deadline
  • Keep in regular contact with donors and send updates
ABOUT PARISH/ SCHOOL/ ORGANIZATION

We envision lives, and indeed churches, renewed through people worshiping God with their whole lives through knowing, loving and serving God in the ordinary and extraordinary. We pursue this vision by sending missionaries to the underserved communities in the church to work with their junior high and high school youth, and developing relationships and trust with their families and the greater parish community. Our aim is to remain steadfast in our presence and show that life in Christ is worth living. At their best, these parishes are realizations of the whole of Adore’s mission.

Our goal for our missionaries is to create a sustainable lifestyle and to give them the freedom to serve with their gifts and passion. We strive to build an environment and culture that allows people to begin their journey in ministry or continue in it sustainably for the long term. We support our missionaries so that they can thrive mentally, physically, spiritually, and financially whether single, married, just out of college, discerning religious life, or even if you have a house full of kids.

HOW TO APPLY

DESCRIPTION

The missionary internship program is the best way to get a taste of domestic missionary life! If you have a call for serving others and God has placed a desire in you for living radically for the Gospel, this internship is something you should discern. We believe that when God calls people to mission, it’s because He seeks to transform their hearts and lives in a way only mission can accomplish. Over the course of this summer internship, missionaries will be formed, challenged, and pushed beyond their perceived limits to do great things for teens on the margins.

The 2023 summer internship will take place in Houston, TX from June 2nd – July 16th. Anyone 18 or older who has graduated high school and can complete safe environment training and a background check is eligible.

We will provide housing in a host home for the summer, a team to work with, fundraising and on the job ministry training, regular spiritual formation and accountability, human and professional development, ample opportunities to grow in skill and holiness.

PARISH PROGRAMMING

  • Run programming at the parish for the summer, with supervision and assistance from lead missionaries

WEEKLY TEAM MEETINGS

  • Time to meet as a missionary team, go over logistics for the week, and figure out any planning and preparation needed
  • Fundraising, goals, and dream day check-in

WEEKLY DISCIPLESHIP

  • The backbone of our ministry is one-on-one and small group discipleship with teens. Interns are expected to meet with teens every week for discipleship

DREAM DAY

  • We believe that we are called to mission beyond the walls of the parish and into the surrounding community.
  • Whether it’s a bible study in the juvenile detention center, serving the local homeless or any other dream of radical service, we work to accompany interns in identifying what sort of outreach God is calling them to do in their mission neighborhood, building a plan of action, and seeing the dream to fruition.

TEAM FORMATION

  • Weekly team formation to discuss summer reading books and check-in on personal prayer life and development

COMMUNITY

  • New Missionary Meals and participation in all-staff events
    Interns will be able to grow community within the missionary intern group

GOAL-SETTING

  • Set 3 ministry goals that are measurable and attainable and 3 personal goals that are measurable and attainable
  • Will discuss goals at weekly check-in meeting and be challenged to grow and attain goals

FUNDRAISING

  • Will receive fundraising training from Missionary Supervisor and mission team
  • Set a fundraising goal and deadline
  • Keep in regular contact with donors and send updates

ABOUT PARISH / SCHOOL / ORGANIZATION

We envision lives, and indeed churches, renewed through people worshiping God with their whole lives through knowing, loving and serving God in the ordinary and extraordinary. We pursue this vision by sending missionaries to the underserved communities in the church to work with their junior high and high school youth, and developing relationships and trust with their families and the greater parish community. Our aim is to remain steadfast in our presence and show that life in Christ is worth living. At their best, these parishes are realizations of the whole of Adore’s mission.

Our goal for our missionaries is to create a sustainable lifestyle and to give them the freedom to serve with their gifts and passion. We strive to build an environment and culture that allows people to begin their journey in ministry or continue in it sustainably for the long term. We support our missionaries so that they can thrive mentally, physically, spiritually, and financially whether single, married, just out of college, discerning religious life, or even if you have a house full of kids.

HOW TO APPLY

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