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Opportunities to Serve
Short-term
Teams embarking on a short-term experience of encouraging others and learning to engage the work of the kingdom for a lifetime.
Border Perspective is an immersive and educational service learning trip and will intentionally place you into the lives of immigrant leaders serving families on the U.S. - Mexico border. Join us March 5-10, 2023.
Join a team working to serve refugee families displaced from the conflicts in Syria and Iraq with medical needs in Summer 2023. The team will work in partnership with the local Hashmi Christian church in Amman to serve this vulnerable population with basic medical attention and supplies.
Love to play soccer? Love to share God's good news? Join an E3 Collective team to southern Kenya, August 7-18, 2023, centered around a soccer camp outreach that will bless and engage with local kids and adults.
This trip from May 10 to 27, 2024, offers a unique, hands-on opportunity to encounter the land of Jesus’ earthly ministry and relive the stories of Jesus as the team meets, works, and prays together with Palestinian Christians.
Share God’s love through Christ in refugee camps and under-served communities. Work with a local church, short-term teams offer support to continuing ministry to refugees fleeing long-term instability in their home communities.
Join the E3 Collective trip to Lesvos, Greece on September 9-23, 2023, to serve refugees at their entry point to Europe, just four miles from the shore of Turkey. Show the love of God and serve the daily needs of displaced people waiting for their path to a new life.
Volunteer with SWAP (Sharing With Appalachian People) in McDowell County, West Virginia, and get to know members of your team and local homeowners while blessing others with a home that is safe, warm, and dry.
Join us on a pilgrimage through Germany from May 27 to June 5, 2023, visiting old cities and new projects, getting to know people and communities, and exploring what it means to follow Jesus in the post-Christian landscape of today’s church in Europe.
Internship
Explore God’s calling through structured opportunities for service and discipleship through a one- to two-year missions placement designed to help you discern your spiritual gifts and put them into practice.
Serve as a teacher’s assistant for the Joshua Center preschool, working with the Roma population of Lezhë, Albania. Work with Joshua Center director Norma Teles and other preschool teachers to educate and share the good news of Jesus with children.
Learn about international businesses that transform communities through an assignment with long-term workers that involves incarnational living, language learning, and sharing good news in the context of businesses designed to meet local needs with God-honoring work and just compensation.
Empower a long-term pioneer mission worker family through child care and home help as needed while participating in the life of the Emmaus Gemeinschaft missional community, and build relationships through service at a Christian café.
Serve as a discipleship intern at Nazareth Village and/or Nazareth Hospital, and encounter the cultures and peoples of the land as well as travelers from around the world as you share the love and good news of Jesus.
Serve with Peacebuilders Community, Inc., in a combination of office-based assignments in Davao City, Mindanao, and field work in local communities throughout the Philippines. Explore a process of spiritual formation and discipleship while engaged in peace building work in a team setting.
Join a team living and working in a major Southeast Asian city's slum where skills such as nursing, teaching, and/or social work are an asset. Serve alongside VMMissions workers, study language and culture, live with a host family, and experience the radical incarnational life of this ministry.
Dive into an immersion experience in a Muslim context with home stays, language study and mission mentoring among Muslim-background believers in Jesus. Join a team with current VMMissions workers as an intern prepared to listen, learn and minister in this context.
Join a team with current VMMissions workers and use your media and technology skills as an intern prepared to learn and serve as you enhance the outreach ministry to Muslim-background persons and connect with new believers as you study language and culture.
Do you have a heart for the unreached? Do you long to connect with what God is doing on the frontiers of the Kingdom? Join long-term workers in northeastern Thailand in the rhythms of cross-cultural pioneer church-planting among one of the most unreached people groups in Southeast Asia.
Serve as an intern with the Abide Project of Church of the Lamb, which is establishing welcoming places for their neighbors: a parish, gardens, and an abbey that unites faith with work and vocation and provides a place for spiritual formation and healing.
Disciple young people in faith at camp while serving in a beautiful outdoor setting at Highland Retreat! This assignment works with the camp director and staff to oversee the operations of Highland Retreat as it engages in faith formation for children and youth.
Participate in the life of the Huntington Mennonite Church congregation, receive weekly mentoring, explore and share gifts of music, teaching, leadership roles, media presence, and more. Based on interests, HMC will connect an intern to work with one or more partner agencies in the area.
In this one-year assignment, stay in your current job or start a new one while receiving training and biweekly connection with a tranSend cohort, learning about how to share good news in workplace contexts and approach any job with a kingdom perspective.
Minister to college students through worship gatherings, Bible studies, one-on-one meetings, and in other ways at colleges in the Shenandoah Valley: Eastern Mennonite University, James Madison University, Bridgewater College, or Mary Baldwin University.
Long-term
Long-term service (2-3 years) including intensive cross-cultural learning and holistic witness through a variety of specific ministries.
Join a team working with an array of businesses that transform communities through meeting local needs, operating with integrity and just compensation, and being a example of God's love and heart for justice in word and deed. Receive training, mentoring and support for long-term ministry through business.
Explore church planting and discipleship in the urban, post-Christian setting of Mannheim, Germany, known as one of the more intercultural cities in Germany. Join a team and help to resource a national network for persons interested in living out the gospel in their culture.
Study the Albanian language and Kosovar culture, and form a long-term church planting team, partner with existing believers, and plant gospel seeds through building community relationships.
Join the team in South Asia with current VMMissions workers as you learn language and culture in order to minister to one of the most under-reached people groups in the world while using your particular gifts and passions.
Join a team of people who bring maturity and passion for Jesus to a successful water filter factory business that is opening doorways for impact. Their gospel witness has flourished both among the factory staff, and through the witness of sales representatives with customers in the region.
Respond to God's call to help a Thai network of believers expand into new villages and focus on faith formation among new believers and the second and third generation believers. Join a ministry team with long-term workers engaging and serving with Life Enrichment Church.
Work with youth and families to promote discipleship in rural northeast Thailand. First generation believers have broken free from many types of bondage, but the challenge facing them now is to raise up the next generations to carry forward the gospel witness.