Field Ministry Internships 

 
Field Ministry Internships (FMI), a ministry of Youth With A Mission, facilitates practical learning/serving field project opportunities for Christian university students and young adults to re-interpret their course of study/career in the light of Biblical revelation of calling to grasp God's vision for their career and how it relates to the needs of the world, especially issues of global human need. FMI has mobilized 75 Christian student teams (typically teams of 4 to 7 students) from 107 colleges and universities in eight countries to 33 nations since 1986.

The FMI student projects are designed to confront the “giants” of impure water, illiteracy, malaria, HIV/AIDS, and material and spiritual poverty with prayer, training, service, evangelism, and mercy ministries. FMI opportunities are for students and professionals in the fields of Agriculture, Business, Education, Engineering, Environmental Studies, Art, Journalism, International Affairs, Medical, IT & Social Work.

You decide your most appropriate contribution. You will pray, serve, and build relationships with the host community and project staff. You will collaborate with the long-term field project leaders to assess the needs of the community through interviews, probing questions, surveys, and maps. Your key contribution is the final written project report in which you research and present a proposal to complement or supplement the existing field project in the host community.

By serving projects with Field Ministry Internships in the field of your studies on a summer team, you are going deeper into the call of God. You are offering more than a career, you are offering your life-work as worship.

Field Ministry Internships summer outreach teams, are for students and professionals to integrate studies with a service project abroad. Participants form small teams (4 to7 people)for these 8-week internships, while young adult graduates may join teams for just 2 weeks or more weeks.

New opportunities are available now. If you wish to form a small team, or simply volunteer to serve alongside a long term team, contact us. We'll send you details.

Step up to your calling 
[Today’s article is the conclusion of a 4-part story by Tove Poulson, of YWAM Switzerland. Here she not only takes a look at some key issues, but faces the question of her own response.]

Now Frank Naea, YWAM's President and official Connexity sponsor, stood where Virgie had stood on the stage for the evening session. Greater contrast in size would have been hard to find. His bigness goes beyond his stature. I was comfortable and ready for his message.

Instead of my designated seat in the first row, I had rebelliously picked the safe third row. Even better, I sat at the end of the row so I wouldn't be trapped. It was the perfect spot, close enough to see the facial
expressions on stage but with the possibility of hiding behind the rather large man sitting in front of me.

Then I heard a booming voice from the stage saying. "The book of Esther is often quoted and still these words ring true: 'for such a time as this .' I believe Esther's life is an example, a prophetic statement of the emerging of women into significant roles of leadership that have influence far beyond anything previously imagined." He spoke passionately on what he believed to be the number one battlefield of this century: women!

Why did I feel uncomfortable? I gazed around and didn't see any reason for my discomfort, but my restlessness increased. "God, what is going on?" I prayed, not expecting an immediate answer.

"Third row, you are sitting in the third row," I heard the inner voice say!

I smiled ironically. Can it be that I'm getting so sensitive that I feel guilty for sitting in the third row? That's unlike me.

The smile faded slowly as I realised what God was doing through Connexity in my life. "For such a time as this," He had given me a platform and ordered me to lead, but I cowardly took a back seat. Not that the seat was important; but what it represented was!

I realised that I was still submitting to an old way of thinking that said, “Don't think you are better than us." That false "Law" kept me not wanting to rise to my calling. I remembered one of my own prayers: "God, let me die empty, having used all you have given me." How could I hold back "for such a time as this?"

Virgie had clearly stepped up and taken her place. Who am I not to take mine?

The power of our testimony 

 
Acts 22:6-8

People can dispute what we believe, but they can’t easily deny our firsthand declaration of what Jesus Christ has done for us. Our testimony carries enormous power in bringing others to Jesus and in opening a way for us to speak to those who initially oppose us. Paul recognized this. So, rather than preaching to a hostile crowd about Jesus, he shared his testimony.

Another person whose declaration has won scores of people to Jesus Christ is Gulshan Esther, a former Muslim (see article on “World Religions and Cults,” page 1354). When she accepted Jesus as her Savior and Lord, her family and neighbors opposed her faith, but they couldn’t deny the miracle they saw in her. Her book, The Torn Veil, tells how she was left lame by a childhood illness. Then, in bitter grief over her father’s death, she asked God for death too. The gentle voice that answered was Jesus, who healed her crippled legs and transformed her life with his love.

Our experiences demonstrate that our God and his responsiveness to us are both real. They affirm that what we say about Jesus is true.

What examples can you share of how God has demonstrated his care and concern for you?

Dig deeper: Phil. 3:5; 1 Tim. 1:12-16; 1 John 1:1-3.