We are now accepting applications for the 2010 season!
Spend your summer staffing week long youth group trips and being discipled at one of these locations: Appalachian Kentucky; Matamoros, Mexico, New Orleans, Louisiana, Philadelphia, PA, Las Vegas, Nevada, or various American Indian locations.
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Appalachia/Kentucky
The people in this rural part of the United States are economically depressed and are plagued with both physical and spiritual needs. AIM partners with a number of local ministries that are excited to host youth groups and partner with them to reach the lost of rural Kentucky. They attempt to meet the felt needs of this community, and desire to earn the right to share the answer to the spiritual needs. The teams will be serving through construction, Vacation Bible School, door-to-door evangelism, prayer walks and servant evangelism.
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Matamoros, Mexico
The teams in Matamoros will stay at the Gateway, AIM's center for outreach into Mexico that's located just across the Texas-Mexico border. Matamoros is an incredibly poverty-stricken area in which the teams will work in the local neighborhoods and farming communities to help families who survive on very little. They will minister through construction, evangelism, prayer and children's ministry.
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New Orleans, Louisiana
The teams in New Orleans will work in the hurricane-damaged areas (yes, they still exist!) to help people restore their lives. They will also work alongside ministries that serve the urban poor in New Orleans. Ministry will include cleaning and repairing homes and yards, listening to stories of tragedy and survival, praying with people, and other various forms of community outreach.
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Philadelphia, PA
Your ministry activities will focus on building Christ-centered relationships with locals in need of having their lives dramatically transformed. Those in the Philadelphia community are hungry for the dignity, hope, love, and compassion of Christ that your team can offer. Weekly ministries include daily children's ministry, evening ministries to homeless, addicted and poverty stricken adults, and simple service projects such as trash cleanup or painting over graffiti. Teams that come with special skills such as sports specialties, skilled laborers, music or drama may have custom ministry events coordinated for them.
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Las Vegas, NV
This mission will be a great opportunity to build relationships with the locals in the community, you'll be able to experience the culture beneath the bright lights of the Las Vegas strip. Potential outreaches include evangelism, connecting with the local youth, and giving yourself away to the homeless. Las Vegas is a community in dire need of the love and truth of Jesus Christ.
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American Indian (Various Locations)
A vital part of your mission will be to build solid relationships with the locals in the area. So many of these families are torn apart by alcoholism, addiction, and violence, the Choctaw people have a desperate need to be freed from the bondage that these struggles bring. Some of the opportunities you'll have to connect with the locals may include activities such as Bible camps, community dinners, youth services, visiting elderly or disabled residents, and one-on-one discipleship. You have the ability to bring the love and hope of Christ that this community so desperately needs. Come prepared to spend a week in American Indian country, listening to God's voice and then stepping out in obedience.
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The locations listed above are places where we host back to back youth mission trips all summer. We are looking for several passionate and hard-working interns to join Ministry Coordinators in support staffing those trips.
AIM is seeking spiritually mature and disciplined persons of integrity to serve mission teams during the summer of 2010. These individuals must be at least 19 years of age, have a love of people, a passion to serve, and the desire to be empowered as they facilitate the ministry activities of various mission groups each week. Project Facilitators will assist the Ministry Coordinators as these groups experience and understand the objectives of an AIM project: Listen in Prayer, Share your Faith, Meet Felt Needs, Build Meaningful Relationships, and Debrief and Respond. They will do this by leading, shepherding, and assisting in discipling teams as they go to various ministry sites. In addition to facilitating group ministry, Project Facilitators will be the group's point of contact for AIM during their week at the ministry location site. Project facilitators are responsible for ensuring that their project group experiences all the standard elements of an AIM project.
While Project facilitators will have a lot of responsibility and be held to very high standards, the heart behind this internship is to grow and develop Godly men and women to use the gifts and talents the Lord has given them to pursue the calling the Lord has placed on their lives. We want to set you up for success not only for the summer, but for the bigger picture of what God is calling you to do. Project Facilitators will be empowered to take ownership of parts of projects they are leading, and will be supported by mentors who will do the set-up for the trips, help them problem solve when issues arise, give them guidance and direction as needed, as well as informally disciple them over the course of the summer. Project Facilitators will be blessed by living in community with their co-workers and will need to be a team-player in order to get the most out of their summer.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Model and encourage participants to achieve the 5 AIM project objectives
- Be effective/comfortable in teaching and communicating Listening Prayer
- Serve the youth leaders so they can focus on the spiritual growth of their students.
- Communicate with youth pastors/leaders before their trip and on a daily basis during the project
- Guard AIM's integrity in the community by monitoring the group's actions
- Debrief on a daily basis with the group to see ways God has worked during that day.
- Handle the finances assigned to your group.
- Manage the various elements of the project, such as meal prep, chore charts and leader meetings
Essential Knowledge and Skills
- Assertiveness - Takes forceful stands on issues without being excessively abrasive.
- Customer Focus - Regularly monitors internal and external customer satisfaction.
- Energy - Exhibits energy, a strong desire to achieve, and an appropriately high dedication level.
- Enthusiasm - Exhibits dynamism, charisma, excitement, and a positive "can-do" attitude.
- First Impression - Professional in demeanor. Creates favorable first impressions through appropriate body language, eye contact, posture, voice qualities, bearing and attire.
- Judgment/Decision Making - Demonstrates consistent logic, rationality, and objectivity in decision making.
- Likability - Puts people at ease by being warm, sensitive, and compassionate. Builds and maintains trusting relationships with all constituencies, co-workers, customers, and the community.
- Stress Management - Must possess the ability to perform the duties of this position in highly stressful situations and environments
- Team Player - Reaches out to peers to build unity within the team. Earns a reputation for leading peers toward support of what is best for the total company.
- Verbal Communication - Communicates effectively one on one, in small groups and in public speaking contexts. Demonstrates fluency, clarifies organization of thought processes, and command of the language.
- Conflict Management - Exhibits understanding of natural sources of conflict and acts to prevent or soften them. When conflicts emerge, effectively works them through to optimum outcome. Does not suppress, ignore, deny conflict.
Applications and references must be received by April 1st, 2010.
If you are interested in applying for this position, click here to download the application and reference form. You can send both forms in three ways: email, fax, or snail mail.
Email your completed forms to the Leadership Development Team at leaderdev@adventures.org
Fax them to The Edge Leader Development Team at 770-983-1061 or mail them to:
The Edge Leader Development
Adventures In Missions
6000 Wellspring Trail
Gainesville, GA 30506
Once we receive your application and reference form we will contact you within two business days to set up a time for a phone interview.
We look forward to hearing from you and partnering with you to help you pursue the Lord's calling on your life!
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