Lima, Peru Internship

Serge teams in Lima partner with Peruvians to develop churches and support church leaders, all to see God’s kingdom expand in Peru. Like all of Peru, Lima is a fusion of cultures: Mestizo, Spanish, Andean, Amazon Indian, African, Chinese, and Japanese. This fusion of cultures is reflected in the city’s cuisine which is internationally acclaimed.

Many do not know Jesus, especially among the youth, with secularism growing in popularity. Crime, poverty, and corruption plague the city. The church is under-resourced and in need of support in every area.

If you are curious about Latin American culture, excited about language learning, and would enjoy the opportunity to work together with the long-term team to bless the youth of the community and the local Peruvian church – this internship is for you!

As an intern in Peru, you will have the opportunity to:

• Live in an extremely urban setting (Lima is the only Latin American capital city on the Pacific coast and is home to 9 million people). 
• Experience serving in an evangelistic ministry along domestic partner – Young Life Peru
• Spend time growing in relationship with and being mentored by YL Peru staff
• Dive into intensive Spanish language classes
• Serve the local church through various discipleship and outreach ministries

All Summer Interns will:

• Serve alongside long-term missionaries
• Participate in weekly team meetings
• Develop skills in your career and areas of interest
• Complete one of Serge’s gospel-centered small-group studies 
• Experience intentional discipleship with a long-term missionary mentor
• Go on a spiritual team retreat 
• Engage in cultural learning experiences.

…Become a Serge Summer Intern!

Early Decision is November 10, 2024

Regular Decision is January 12, 2025

London, UK (Southall) Internship

London is perhaps one of the most diverse cities in the world and especially in the Southall community. Many people from South Asia, especially from the Punjab region call this community home. Serge has been active in Southall for more than 20 years, establishing church plants that seek to celebrate, share, and enjoy the gospel of Jesus in culturally understandable ways.

Serge partners with British South Asian leadership in Southall to establish a service (seva)-orientated, culturally-understandable group (sangat, ‘ekklesia’) of Jesus-followers (Isu bhaktas) in the British South Asian context of West London. Immerse yourself in the Sikh, Hindu and Muslim cultures while seeing and being part of the shifting dynamic of first- and second-generation South Asian immigrants who are creating their home in London.

As an intern in London, you will have the opportunity to…

• Support the work of local church, New Life Masih Ghar Church (NLMG). 
• Work in a local thrift store (Asha Shop) that seeks to share the gospel in word and deed
• Help with parent- toddler groups 
• Help with kids club & kids camp (VBS) for elementary schoolers, as well as youth club for middle schoolers
• Serve in various mercy ministries
• Help with church worship music (Worship takes place primarily in English, but the church also integrates South Asian language and culture)

London interns may also:

• Assist with the week-long London Evangelism and Prayer Conference (LEAP) 
• Be involved with community-based youth work
• Share the love of Jesus through street outreach

Successful interns are usually curious about other cultures, have the courage to enter into unfamiliar situations, are willing to build relationships with people very different from themselves, and are passionate about the local church and community. Adventurous taste buds are definitely a plus!

All Summer Interns will:

• Serve alongside long-term missionaries
• Participate in weekly team meetings
• Develop skills in your career and areas of interest
• Complete one of Serge’s gospel-centered small-group studies 
• Experience intentional discipleship with a long-term missionary mentor
• Go on a spiritual team retreat 
• Engage in cultural learning experiences.

…Become a Serge Summer Intern!

Early Decision is November 10, 2024

Regular Decision is January 12, 2025

Southern Spain Internship

Spain is a beautiful country with a complicated history. After centuries of religious oppression, the younger generation has been left with a deep cynicism toward the church and religion. 

The Serge team in Southern Spain is working to bring about a movement of grace-centered gospel communities. Through a church plant, Bible studies, efforts to engage and demonstrate love to the growing immigrant population, activities for kids and teens, and opportunities to learn English, a Christ-focused community is taking root. 

If you are curious about other cultures, interested in language learning, and would enjoy the opportunity to work hard together with the long-term team to bless the community and local church – this internship is for you!

As an intern in Southern Spain, you will have the opportunity to:

• Serve and demonstrate love to children, teens, and families through a summer English camp while offering support in leading and coordinating camp volunteers
• Get to know Spanish locals and leaders through acts of service, time, and volunteering
• Worship together and get to know the members of our multi-cultural church plant
• Participate in prayer ministry
• Engage in Spanish language classes in the city alongside a group of people from all over the world

All Summer Interns will:

• Serve alongside long-term missionaries
• Participate in weekly team meetings
• Develop skills in your career and areas of interest
• Complete one of Serge’s gospel-centered small-group studies 
• Experience intentional discipleship with a long-term missionary mentor
• Go on a spiritual team retreat 
• Engage in cultural learning experiences.

…Become a Serge Summer Intern!

Early Decision is November 10, 2024

Regular Decision is January 12, 2025

North Africa Internship

North Africa remains one of the world’s least-reached regions, with less than one-tenth of one percent of the population following Jesus. Despite an environment of spiritual oppression, Christian workers have entered into local communities through entrepreneurial activities, teaching English as a second language, and teaching children in a variety of contexts.

Within the urban context of the capital city, the team in North Africa is committed to mentoring and developing future Christian workers for North Africa. 

Interns will walk alongside apprentices and long-term team members as they serve the community in a variety of ways. Interns will develop cross-cultural relationships through homestays, camps, teaching English to university students, and meeting in cafes with friends in this warm North African context.

As an intern in North Africa, you will have the opportunity to:

• Learn Arabic in a classroom setting as well as through local relationships
• Grow in knowledge and understanding of the region’s dominant religion
• Join other interns to run English conversation clubs for local university students
• Observe and participate in the development of local transformational businesses
• Engage with other local North Africa interns in the computer science field with the opportunity of assisting with programming, if qualified
• Have a homestay with a local family and join the team in building relationships with people in the community to gain a deeper understanding of the Father’s work in the Arabic-speaking world

All Summer Interns will:

• Serve alongside long-term missionaries
• Participate in weekly team meetings
• Develop skills in your career and areas of interest
• Complete one of Serge’s gospel-centered small-group studies 
• Experience intentional discipleship with a long-term missionary mentor
• Go on a spiritual team retreat 
• Engage in cultural learning experiences.

…Become a Serge Summer Intern!

Early Decision is November 10, 2024

Regular Decision is January 12, 2025

Nairobi, Kenya Internship

The Serge team in Nairobi, Kenya exists to equip, minister, and engage with the local church through various avenues, including soccer-based discipleship, bible storying training, and Christian education. Our hope is to encourage local leaders and cultivate a deeper understanding of the gospel of grace and its implications for all aspects of life. 

The ultimate goal is to see the Kenyan church, both corporately and individually, grow in its understanding of the gospel, living a life reflecting those truths in unity amongst believers and reaching out to the lost.

The summer 2025 interns will have the opportunity to learn and serve through a variety of means and with a variety of audiences. Interns will have the opportunity to engage children and youth in the city of Nairobi through soccer ministry, mercy ministry, and in a local church that consists of congregants from all over the world. Interns will also travel to remote villages for Chronological Bible Storying with adults.

As an intern in Kenya, you will have the opportunity to:

• Learn how to utilize Chronological Bible Storying as a means of evangelism and discipleship
• Learn how to utilize soccer as a ministry tool
• Serve in a local mercy ministry 
• Serve in the local church and worship with the body of Christ in another culture
• Study cross-cultural living and specifically Kenyan culture by spending time with and ministering alongside nationals
• Spend time with missionaries, getting to know their families and daily lives

All Summer Interns will:

• Serve alongside long-term missionaries
• Participate in weekly team meetings
• Develop skills in your career and areas of interest
• Complete one of Serge’s gospel-centered small-group studies 
• Experience intentional discipleship with a long-term missionary mentor
• Go on a spiritual team retreat 
• Engage in cultural learning experiences.

…Become a Serge Summer Intern!

Early Decision is November 10, 2024

Regular Decision is January 12, 2025

Ireland Internship

The Republic of Ireland is nominally a Catholic ‘faith’ country and culturally a majority Catholic country.  After the trauma of the institutional abuses of the Church and then rise and fall of the Celtic Tiger, Ireland has become a more inclusive country across historically sectarian lines. Opportunities for conversations and engagement around issues of faith is more inviting than ever.   Views on faith among the Irish are becoming less cultural and more authentic and explicit as individuals either move away from the church completely or desire a deeper experience with God.

Serge Ireland staff act as catalytic encouragers to see the Irish Church grow in the grace-filled gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ through facilitating church plants, encouraging Irish leaders, and bringing renewal through the truth of the gospel.

As an intern in Ireland, you will have the opportunity to:

• Complete cross-cultural training and cultural immersion among Irish university students and Irish church congregations 
• Work side-by-side as a team with Irish interns, pastors, and ministry leaders
• Serve in an Irish church or mission context in the Republic of Ireland /or Northern Ireland
• Experience a guided retreat where you will learn and practice several spiritual disciplines of the Christian life
• Live in community with an emphasis on:
  • Exploring the Word of God through a manuscript Bible study in the book of Galatians and the transforming power of the gospel through the Serge Ireland’s  Free to Love: Beloved Sent Ones Sonship course
  • One-on-one spiritual mentoring
  • Great food, great fun, and great friendships in one of the most beautiful settings on earth

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All Summer Interns will:

• Serve alongside long-term missionaries
• Participate in weekly team meetings
• Develop skills in your career and areas of interest
• Complete one of Serge’s gospel-centered small-group studies 
• Experience intentional discipleship with a long-term missionary mentor
• Go on a spiritual team retreat 
• Engage in cultural learning experiences.

…Become a Serge Summer Intern!

Early Decision is November 10, 2024

Regular Decision is January 12, 2025

Kibuye, Burundi Internship

Burundi is a geographically small nation of 11 million people in east-central Africa’s Great Lakes region. Recovering from decades of unrest, Burundi consistently ranks among the lowest in the world in economic development, hunger, and infant and maternal mortality rates.

In rural areas like Kibuye, access to medical care is extremely limited – far from the hospitals and specialists located in the nation’s largest cities.

Since 2013, the Serge team in Kibuye has partnered with Hope Africa University and Kibuye Hope Hospital to bring compassionate medical care in the name of Jesus to the poor in rural Burundi. The team also serves as medical school faculty, equipping the next generation of Burundian physicians.

As an intern in Burundi, you will have the opportunity to:

• Childcare for a young missionary family with 3 young children (K-5) in the mornings
• Support in summer school – particularly specials / Extracurriculars – PE, Art, music…etc
• Several dedicated hours per day to shadowing Serge’s medical missionaries at the hospital in the afternoons (Surgery, Peds, OB-GYN, etc.)
• Connect with Burundian med students and learn about the medical education program at Hope Hospital
• Learn from local followers what outreach looks like in this context
• Be challenged to go deeper in your faith

All Summer Interns will:

• Serve alongside long-term missionaries
• Participate in weekly team meetings
• Develop skills in your career and areas of interest
• Complete one of Serge’s gospel-centered small-group studies 
• Experience intentional discipleship with a long-term missionary mentor
• Go on a spiritual team retreat 
• Engage in cultural learning experiences.

…Become a Serge Summer Intern!

Early Decision is November 10, 2024

Regular Decision is January 12, 2025

Adventure Business Internship

Our team’s desire is to develop an adventure tourism business in the local community that will provide jobs for new believers in a country that has less than 2% Christian. Many people who come to faith face persecution by being rejected from the local community. We want to remove barriers to coming to faith by providing jobs for them through our trekking and homestay business. This enterprise is also strategic for sharing the gospel because a good trekking company spends time in the mountains, getting to know locals, hearing their stories, and developing new routes for future clients. 

This enterprise allows our local workers to be employed by the trekking business, which gives them a reason to visit remote villages to witness to and disciple people without receiving scrutiny from local authorities. Our adventure tourism business also works in collaboration with an established medical team that uses medicine as a platform to minister to those who have not heard of Jesus in rural mountainous environments.

As an Adventure Business Intern, you will have the opportunity to:

• Work alongside local believers as we seek to develop new adventure packages for domestic and international clients
• Help develop new trekking routes in some of the highest mountains on the planet
• Cross rivers, valleys, mountains, and glaciers to fine-tune different adventure packages
• Travel to rural villages and participate in house fellowships, while teaching and leading Bible studies for local youth
• Help lead games covering a multitude of sports (soccer, ultimate frisbee, badminton, and cricket)

All Summer Interns will:

• Serve alongside long-term missionaries
• Participate in weekly team meetings
• Develop skills in your career and areas of interest
• Complete one of Serge’s gospel-centered small-group studies 
• Experience intentional discipleship with a long-term missionary mentor
• Go on a spiritual team retreat 
• Engage in cultural learning experiences.

…Become a Serge Summer Intern!

Early Decision is November 10, 2024

Regular Decision is January 12, 2025

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