Paid Summer Urban Mission Internships
The QuadW Missional Internship is a paid, 8-week summer service-learning internship offered at sites in the U.S. and Mexico.
Our internships are diverse and primarily emphasize experiential and communal learning through hands-on practice and a relational focus. Because we don't want our participants to have to choose between a life-changing summer experience and being able to pay tuition or bills, we provide a stipend of $2,500 plus free housing and most meals.
Read on to learn more about our primary components (what we do) and key values (why we do it). While our components and values are the same from site to site, each site is unique -- with special strengths, beauty, and struggles. To further explore which site may be the best fit for you, check out our website here.
THE WORK OF THE INTERNSHIP
The QuadW Missional Internship experience has six primary components:
1. Hands-On Missional Service
As an intern, you will be placed in a challenging ministry environment where you will do hands-on community ministry. This aspect will be a cooperative effort of pastors, congregations, and area nonprofits who focus on under-served populations in under-resourced communities.
2. Community Living
Truly living in Christian community is an incredibly challenging but deeply rewarding experience. During the summer internship, you will live and work with a group of diverse college students, working out what it means to live our faith together. Over the course of the summer, you will likely develop relationships that will last a lifetime. As interns have shared in the past, “we arrived as strangers, but we leave as family.”
3. Spiritual Disciplines
Spiritual disciplines include weekly worship and prayer together as interns and at host churches, Scripture reading and journaling, and accountability/encouragement groups (groups of two or three of the same gender who meet for the purpose of supporting and encouraging one another's spiritual growth).
4. Mentoring/Coaching
Time with experienced leaders to process field experiences on a deeper personal level. This will occur in a team setting as well as one-on-one.
5. Equipping Sessions
This weekly training is to help you re-evaluate what it really means to follow Jesus, move beyond a consumer spirituality, focus on the needs of the world, and prepare to launch future initiatives that contribute to the transformation of communities. The equipping sessions will involve required weekly reading and reflection prior to the group gathering.
6. Next Step Planning
Developing concrete strategies and plans for the future so that what is learned through the internship is applied in the communities to which you will return. QuadW is meant to be much more than a summer-only experience. Past interns have gone on to initiate bold new efforts in their own communities and serve as agents of change in the life of their student-ministries and congregations.
OTHER IMPORTANT DETAILS
What are the dates for the internship?
Generally 8 weeks, but exact dates vary from city to city. So check out those site pages on our website to see exact dates, which will always start around the end of May or the beginning of June and then end in late July or early August.
Who is eligible to apply?
Anyone who will be age 18 to 25 at the time the internship begins regardless of major! Non-college students are also welcome!
What is the deadline to apply?
No deadline, but all our sites fill up each year and some fill up much faster than others.