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.

Leadership Shift Pt. 3 
by Loren Cunningham

(continued from June 21)

God is able to take care of His messengers, no matter what their national economy is like. Three of our Chilean workers were leading an outreach in Argentina. They ran short of money, so they sent the others home on public bus while Hugo, Cesar and his wife Jacqueline started hitchhiking home to Chile. After they walked for 25 kilometers, Hugo saw a pair of pants in a store window and wished out loud for some like them. Cesar said, "Let's pray and ask God for your pants." They did. Then Hugo asked Cesar what he wanted. Cesar wanted a Swiss army knife--onewith all the gadgets. They had been breaking their cheese with their fingers because they had no knife. Cesar's wife added that she wanted a backpack. They prayed.

A little while later, they came upon a dirty package lying in the road, wrapped in rags. There was no identification but inside was a backpack, a pair of pants, and a Swiss army knife. There was also a pair of brown women's shoes that didn't fit Jacqueline. They came back to the YWAM school, met up with the others and reported how God had met their need. "But who were the shoes for?" Jackie wondered. One girl called out excitedly, "I've been praying for shoes!" She was wearing a brown dress and the shoes fit perfectly.

The face of missions is changing. How should we react to this paradigm shift? Certainly God wants us to continue to go and to give--we have been greatly blessed and He holds us responsible to do our share in finishing the Great Commission. But the fact that two-thirds of the world's Christians now come from non-western nations will change much that we have taken for granted all our lives. We must have Third World leaders as speakers for large, international gatherings. We need to hear major messages and prophetic words from them. We need them to teach us. We should be reading books written by pastors who are seeing such magnificent growth. And more than anything else, we must have humility. We must make room for the leaders God is bringing forth.

Pray with me for a mighty army of Latin Americans, especially Chileans, to go out as missionaries. And pray for a growing platform for Christian leaders from those nations. Chileans have come to the kingdom for such a time as this. If the Lord tarries, future historians of the Church will write about the 90s, and Chile will be one of the countries they write about.

[Reprinted with permission from Ministries Today July/August 1993. Copyright Strang Communications Co., USA. All rights reserved. www.ministriestoday.com]

A helping hand brings hope 

 
Leviticus 25:35

Marta was sobbing quietly as the doctor examined her. Her children were without food, the rent was overdue, and now she was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Don and Barbara, two workers at the church’s free clinic, reached out to the young single mother with gifts of food, prayers and friendship.

One day, when Don and Barbara visited her home, Marta proposed selling fruit drinks in the marketplace to help support her family. Barbara offered her own blender, the church helped -cover the costs of electricity, and a small sum of money was loaned to buy fruit and glasses. About a week later, Don and Barbara found their friend selling fruit drinks and beaming with newfound confidence. Hope returned as she saw that God had not forgotten her.

Jesus said, “Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you” (Matt. 5:42). Our love gifts of time and money give needy people hope. These expressions of love reflect God’s concern and encourage people toward enterprise instead of dependency.

How do you respond when someone asks for your help? Whom can you help today?

More insight: Exodus 22:25; Deut. 15:7-8; Prov. 22:9.