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.

Youth and the power of God, Pt. 2 
In the early nineties, a DTS team from Guinea Bissau in West Africa went on outreach to Conakry, French Guinea. One night it fell to an 18-year-old girl from Bissau to preach.

She was totally inexperienced and very nervous about speaking. She had prayed a lot and thought that she was supposed to talk about the power of God. When she was called to the pulpit she plowed bravely into her sermon. Within 15 minutes, she had said everything which she could think of on that subject.

It was embarrassing to stop after such a short time, but she didn’t know what to do. After a short hesitation she called those present to stand to their feet and begin to praise God for His power.

While they were worshipping, a Muslim man wheeled into the back of the church in his wheelchair. He hadn’t been out of the chair for over 20 years. As he listened to the Christians, it occurred to him that they might be right. Maybe Jesus could heal him. His belief started to grow and finally he stood up! He started walking, leaping, and praising God. After the service was over, he walked 25 kilometers back to his home village and told his family he had been healed by Jesus. What a victory for the Lord! It happened under the ministry of an 18-year-old!

I pray that in YWAM, the bulk of our workers will always be young. I hope that we always have more 18 and 19-year-olds than any other age group. Some will think it reckless, but it is an important factor in seeing the world reached for Jesus.

If you’re young, go for it!

If you’re an older leader, don’t just accept young people. Go out of your way to encourage and promote their involvement with you. They will breathe life, energy, boldness, and creativity into your ministry teams and the world will end up hearing about Jesus.

by Jim Stier, Director of the Americas for Youth With A Mission.

The trouble with status 

 
Matthew 20:20-28

Before we criticize James and John and their mother for their seemingly arrogant request, we should look first at our own hearts. The desire for status is often a blind spot among leaders. It is not uncommon for us to behave differently toward others according to how prominent or attractive or wealthy we think they are. Jesus condemned the act of categorizing people in this way. His response to the scorned Samaritan woman (John 4) was as sincere and caring as his response to wealthy and powerful men with whom he conversed.

Servanthood is the antidote for status-conscious leadership. Servant leadership helps us remember that every person is a treasured child of God, equally worthy of our love and attention. Therefore a true spiritual leader’s status will come from following in the footsteps of the Master, not from climbing the steps of the social ladder.

Read James 2:1-12 and ponder what it says about showing favoritism. How can you avoid it in your life?

Check it out: Matt. 5:3-12; 8:18-20; Phil. 2:5-8.