Taste the Nations: Detroit Nations Within Internship(Summer 2025)

Spend 6 weeks of your summer learning to make disciples among the unreached ethnic minority people groups of the greater Detroit area. Opportunities include placement at either a non-profit community organization or for-profit employment agency among communities of refugees, immigrants, and the economically impoverished. Develop relationships with new Americans through serving their needs while engaging in cross-cultural relationships. Hone your skills as you learn from practitioners who practice and teach principles of community-based outreach and discipleship. Internships will split time evenly between your organizational placement along with Navigator training and cross-cultural ministry.

Orientation and training include (but are not limited to): An understanding and approach to poverty; proficiency in cross-cultural ministry; peacemaking; and storytelling.

Interns will serve alongside laborers pioneering a work that integrates discipleship and community outreach within individual households.

All roles will develop a holistic worldview in disciple making along with a value of God’s love for people pushed to the margins and facing vulnerabilities. This learning will take place through online group coaching with fellow cross-cultural interns, as well as mentorship from the local team. Participants will begin applying this knowledge and attitude in the context of local partnership as directed by the local Navigator city team’s strategic plan.

Responsibilities include working well as part of a team, managing a budget, and flexibility related to the combination of relational and task-oriented opportunities necessary as you serve and minister.

Applicants should have a high school degree and be proficient in English. A degree or major in community-development, horticulture or agriculture, human resources, social entrepreneurship, sales/marketing, education, data analysis, youth ministry, or intercultural studies would be beneficial, but is not required. Additionally, anyone who values community-oriented work, creation care and stewardship, the outdoors, justice, and/or poverty alleviation may find this a great fit.

Applications in by March 5 will receive a $200 stipend towards the cost of the program.

Trip Dates

June 16 to July 31, 2025

Team Size:

4

Trip Cost:

$1500

Orientation Location:

Detroit (included in trip)

Application Deadline:

April 5, 2025

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