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These organizations provide special long-term opportunities for ministry experiences that combine service and living a sustainable lifestyle in community with others who share the same commitments. FTE has not independently investigated these nor endorses each program. Please contact these programs to learn more.

A Christian Ministry in the National Parks.
Opportunities for interdenominational Christian ministry to persons living, working, and vacationing in 45 national parks, forests, and recreation locations across the United States.

Action Reflection Celebration (ARC)

Agape Catholic Christian Lay Community

Brethren Volunteer Service
Brethren Volunteer Service is persons giving their time and skills to help a world in need. It is a way for people to work at issues greater than themselves, recognizing that their efforts may not immediately solve deep-rooted problems, but can be part of on-going work for justice, peace, and the integrity of creation. Volunteers receive room, board, medical insurance, transportation to project and a monthly allowance of $60-$80. Volunteers may live in a group situation, an apartment, or with a family. (In most cases, educational loans may be deferred.)

Cafe' 458

Campus Crusade for Christ
Learn about Summer in the City, a summer internship program in urban centers across the US.

Claretian Volunteers
Claretian Volunteers are men and women who serve one to two years in the US in Atlanta, Georgia, Chicago and Oak Park, Illinois,Springfield, Missouri, or Perth Amboy, New Jersey. We strive to live the values of the gospel, emphasizing ministry, community and spirituality. We minister with creativity and flexibility to a varied population with an emphasis on serving the poor and oppressed. Placements include education, peace and justice advocacy, youth and campus ministry, community organizing and immigration. Spanish is helpful in many positions.
comovol@claret.org
Contact John DiMucci, Director
312-236-7782 ext. 479
205 West Monroe Street
Chicago, IL 60606

Disciples Peace Fellowship
Disciples Peace Fellowship seeks young adults age 21 and older to travel the country this summer (2005). If you have an interest in pursuing and teaching peace and working for justice, then this is the internship for you! You'll earn approximately $2,000 for the summer, plus most expenses. Room and board are provided by each region. Interns are expected to complete a written report/evaluation at the conclusion of the summer. The internship lasts from the end of May to the middle of August. More importantly, you will be rewarded by the hundreds of contacts you will make with the youth of our church by working in CYF camps all over the United States.

Contact: Sarah Riester, Intern Coordinator
Email: sarahriester@yahoo.com
Phone: 317.466.0980.

ECHO
Various internships available through Christian non-profit organizations with mission to network with community leaders in developing countries to address issues of food production and hunger.

Episcopal Campus Ministry at Washington University

A one-year, renewable internship with as assistant chaplain. This 40-hr. a week internship pays $1,000 a month plus benefits. Housing is provided by an area Episcopal parishioner. Job description will be negotiated based on community needs, intern's gifts and areas the intern wishes to explore. Applications are accepted for students right out of undergraduate programs and from those who have been out awhile. Membership in the Episcopal Church is not required.

Episcopal Urban Intern Program
The Episcopal Urban Intern Program, founded in 1991, recruits young adults from across the country to work full-time in a social service agency, live together in Christian Community, and develop in their spiritual lives. The program is designed for persons interested in discerning their vocational goals, ordained or lay, or for those simply seeking to give a year of service to others. The program is housed at Holy Faith Church, a bilingual, multicultural congregation in Los Angeles.
Contact:
The Reverend Altagracia Perez, Director
260 N. Locust Street, Inglewood, CA 90301
Tel: 310/674-7700 ext.104
Fax: 310/771-0634
Email: euip@pacbell.net

Gethsemane Mission Year
Gethsemane Mission Year is a yearlong young adult discipleship opportunity supported by National City Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). The focus is on knowing God and responding to God through service to others, community life, a willingness to live simply, and a dedication to spiritual growth. Service is 40 hours per week of direct social work with local social service agencies.Benefits include free housing, food allowance, health insurance, personal stipend, local transportation allowance, student loans deferred and AmeriCorps Education Award of $4,725. Application deadline is March 1.

Contact:
Rev. Anna C. Bradley
National City Christian Church
5 Thomas Circle, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20005
202/232-0323
Fax: 202/797-0111

Habitat for Humanity International
Two service programs in partnership with various affiliates nationwide. ameriCorps: Members serve one-year term constructing houses with affiliate. VISTA: Members serve one-year term helping to build the capacity of an affiliate through resource development. Benefits iclude living allowance, insurance, and education awards.

Home Mission Intern

Contact:
Audrey M. Connor
VIM & FAST Intern Coordinator
Email: Audrey.conner@vanderbilt.edu
Phone: (615)327-7674

Industrial Areas Foundation
IAF East is seeking women and men from colleges, graduate programs, seminaries, business and law schools, the military, and other professions who are interested in exploring careers in organizing during summer 2005. IAF-East will provide a stipend to those participants who are not supported by other institutions will assist those participants who do not live in either of the internship areas in finding low-cost and (if extremely fortunate) no-cost lodging. These accommodations – in convents, seminaries, or rectories -- tend to be modest. IAF-East will cover the costs of travel once the participant is placed in a city and organization. will provide an intensive orientation training of approximately three days at the start of the internship, will assign a senior organizer to mentor and supervise the work of the intern, and will evaluate regularly with the participant as the internship unfolds. Each organization is independent and non-partisan, engaged on a wide range of issues, and led by a strategy team of religious, lay, and community leaders. WWW.INDUSTRIALAREASFOUNDATION.ORG informs about IAF’s work in general.

Contacts:
New York area:
Mike Gecan
East Brooklyn Congregations
440 Watkins Avenue
Brooklyn, New York, 11233
718-498-8312
mgecan@verizon.net

Boston area:
Sheri Andes
Greater Boston Interfaith Organization
594 Columbia Road, Suite 402
Dorchester, MA 02125
617-825-5600
office@gbio.org

Baltimore area:
Jonathon Lange
Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development (BUILD)
2114 N Charles Street
Baltimore, Marlyand 21218
410-528-0305
langeiaf@hotmail.com

Innkeepers

Intervarsity Christian Fellowship USA
Urban Projects, summer ministry experiences involving service opportunities, scripture study, worship, and exploration of issues related to ministry of urban church.

Jesuit Volunteer Corps
Full-time opportunities to work for justice and peace through largest Roman Catholic lay volunteer program in the U.S., with aim of integrating Christian faith and mission. Commitments include working and living among poor and marginalized, simple life-style in community, spirituality, and examination of causes of social injustice.

L'Arche

Lutheran Volunteer Corps
Living peacefully with one another is a lifelong challenge. Community provides valuable opportunities to develop communication and relationship building skills that are essential to strong families, neighborhoods, cities, and to a peaceful world. In LVC communities of 4 to 7, volunteers share meals, household responsibilities, daily struggles, faith discussions, and good times. Building and maintaining a supportive community offers a rewarding experience. The quality and commitment of LVC friendships can last a lifetime.

Micah Project

Mission Year
Year-long urban ministry experience for Christians living and working together in community. Involves participation in active local church, community service, and neighborhood outreach, along with ongoing training, team building, and personal devotions.

New York Internship Program

Pathways to Ministry
Pathways to Ministry is a comprehensive ministry of Saint Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church in Dallas, Texas. The ten-month Intern Program is for recent college graduates who are seriously considering Episcopal ordained ministry. The intern generally works within a different aspect of the ministry each month, meets regularly with a specially assigned lay committee for support and discussion and with a spiritual director. The Pathways Intern works on mutually agreed upon projects, attends weekly Bible studies, is given teach and preaching opportunities, and is fully involved in serving at the various Sunday services.

Project Transformation - Dallas,TX
Project Transformation is a grassroots, faith-based nonprofit based in Oak Cliff, Dallas, Texas whose mission is to connect the energy of young adults, the strength of church-supported institutions, and the untapped resources of urban neighborhoods with the evolving needs of urban children and youth. The Project Transformation summer program is for Christian young people who have completed at least their freshman year of college and are seeking a summer of service in Dallas, Texas. The young adults will grow in their faith journey and explore ministry opportunities. The summer service experience is hands-on with the young people working in teams and connecting children from diverse cultural, social, and economic backgrounds with many adult volunteers; therefore, strong interpersonal skills, flexibility, and motivation are important. For summer: $2,475 living stipend- paycheck, $1,250 education voucher (issued by AmeriCorps after completed term of service and available to be used during/after the spring semester following the summer of service), and room and board. The Project also offers full-year internships, both part-time and full-time. All interns live in community.

Contact Information:
Debbie Godawski
547 E Jefferson
Dallas, TX 75203
Phone: 214-946-3600
Fax: 214-943-4547
Email: ProjTran@ntcumc.org

Project Transformation - University of Virginia
Project Transformation, sponsored by the Wesley Foundation at UVA, offers a nine week program in central Virginia designed to offer hands on ministry experience to college students interested in full time lay or ordained ministry. Interns will work closely with children in a day camp setting and will have regular group time focused on vocation. This is a paid internship and includes room and most board.

Project Transformation – Oklahoma

An urban ministry with sites in the North and South Oklahoma City and Tulsa Districts of the Oklahoma Conference of the United Methodist Church.

Project Transformation’s summer internship is for Christian young people who have completed at least one year of college and are seeking to serve in several urban communities of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Through Project Transformation, college students will grow in their faith journey and explore ministry opportunities. The interns will be working in teams and connecting children from diverse cultural social, and economic backgrounds with many adult volunteers; therefore, strong interpersonal skills are important. each intern will receive an educational voucher and a living stipend. Interns will receive a stipend.

Resurrection House
Resurrection House is an academic year internship for recent college graduates emphasizing vocational discernment, hands on ministry and community living. Three or four participants are annually selected to live in Christian community in a rehabilitate church vicarage on the grounds of the Episcopal Church of the Resurrection in Omaha, NE. The program includes 20 hours a week doing church ministry in a local Episcopal Church, 10 hours a week doing outreach ministry in an urban setting and 10 hours per week of community worship, spiritual direction, etc.

Servant Year
Servant Year is a ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The purpose of Servant Year is to seek young women and men who have completed at least one year of college to explore urban ministry.

Servant Year members will live in an intentional Christian community. Theological education and spiritual formation are essential parts of Servant Year; the program includes frequent guest speakers and four retreats per year.

Sojourners in Washington D.C.
Year-long internship program in inner-city Washington, D.C. that explores the fundamentals of faith, the work of justice, and the gifts of community through living, working, worshipping, and celebrating together.

The Johnson Intern Program
The Johnson Intern Program integrates a 10-month Americorps work experience with an intentional devotional to social justice, personal spiritual development, and community life. The sponsoring parish, The Chapel of the Cross, is located in close proximity to the University of North Carolina campus. The Johnson Intern Program is a servant leadership training opportunity for your adults; and supports the development of community and church leaders capable of understanding the complexities of social and institutional reform. The program provides an opportunity for these young adult leaders to experience the inner and outward journey of the Christian tradition.

Trinity Volunteer Corps
Trinity Volunteer Corps provides five young adults with a yearlong opportunity to live together in intentional Christian Community while working full-time for local social service agencies in the greater Washington, DC area.

United Methodist Church Volunteers in Mission

Young Adult Interns (PCUSA)
This leadership development program provides young adults with the opportunity to experience the expression of mission at the General Assembly level of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Young adults who are 20 to 35 years of age are eligible. See information provided on each opportunity for specific requirements.

Young Adult Service Corps
YASC is focused discernment. The Episcopal Church, in a rededicated commitment to young adults, wants to facilitate this discernment process as best it can. This first of all means that funding of YASC volunteers is partially underwritten by the church, making the service year a mutual enterprise, with the volunteer, his/her sending community, his/her host community, and the Missions Office all contributing.

Young Adult Volunteers (PCUSA)
Young Adult Volunteers serve in communities of need developing community life and meeting regularly for prayer and Bible study at sites in the United States and internationally. Young adults (19 to 30 years of age) volunteer for one year of service. Although specific activities and information is particular to each unique site, all volunteers will receive on-site orientation, work closely with mentors in the program, and have an opportunity to integrate the experience at an end-of-term conference. Partial payment of outstanding student loans is available for qualified applicants. Funding may be shared by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), you, and your congregation.