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.

Moral IQ - Pt. 1 
by Lynn Green, International Chairman, Youth With A Mission

2 Corinthians 1:12

“Now this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in our relations with you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God. We have done so not according to worldly wisdom but according to God’s grace.”

Michael Burke, the BBC newsreader, recently presented a series of programs called The Hand of God. In it he interviewed sports personalities, celebrities and politicians who make a claim to some sort of faith—people who believe that God makes a difference in their daily lives. Jim Caviezel, the actor who plays Jesus in Mel Gibson’s film, The Passion, was amongst several Hollywood celebrities interviewed.

In a recent film, Caviezel was starring opposite Jennifer Lopez. In a scene where the script required them to be naked together, he asked her to cover the intimate parts of her body. He also covered up. Burk suggested that this was a very “peculiar” idea, given that most men would “give their right arm” to be naked together with a famous, beautiful woman. The actor replied, “I am playing the character, but in reality I am a happily married man.” He explained that he didn’t want to introduce guilt into his marriage by behaving inappropriately with another woman because, “guilt is God’s way of telling you ‘this is not right’.”

Michael Burk was still not convinced, so Caviezel drew an analogy. If a banker has the opportunity to steal cash but doesn’t, is that peculiar? Is it peculiar to be honest, to be a person of your word?

For me it was wonderfully refreshing to hear a Hollywood leading man express moral intelligence. He understood that there is such a thing as right and wrong. Right behavior is often difficult in the short term but pays huge dividends in the long term. Wrong behavior is usually very attractive in the short term but leads inevitably to unwanted results.

(to be cont'd.)

Where authority comes from 
Ezra 7:10

Ezra’s life exemplifies three important steps of good spiritual leadership. He dedicated himself to studying the Scriptures, he applied its truths to his own life, and then he began teaching it to others. Authority comes from a life lived on the principles of God’s Word. Matthew 7:28-29 records that “the crowds were amazed at [Jesus’] teaching, because he taught as one who had authority, and not as their teachers of the law."

Bible study is a little like building a house. We start by building the foundation (reading and observing the text.). Next we put up the walls and the roof (interpreting and seeking to understand what the text meant to the original hearers.). Then we move in and make it our own (by applying its truths to our lives).

Application must be a primary goal of all Bible study. To study the Word and not livee it is like building a house and not moving into it. Only when we are living by the Scriptures ourselves can we pass on to others, with authority, what we have learned.

How devoted are you to studying and applying the Word? Make it a daily habit!

Read on: Phil. 3:17; 4:8-9; 1 Thes. 1:4-10; 2 Tim. 3:14-17