Internships
at Living Streams Church

Children’s Ministry interns will get hands on and behind the scenes experience with the practical, functional, and relational elements of leadership and children’s ministry. This will include discipleship, children’s events and service planning, preaching, and administration among other things.

Internship may Include:

• Preaching 1-3 children’s sermons

• Preparing activities and games for Sunday morning services

• Wednesday night and Thursday event planning with department oversight

• Weekly Bible study, discipleship, and ministry training (i.e. lesson planning, classroom management, worship and game preparation, leading small groups)

• Weekly VBS preparation prior to VBS week (mid-June)

• Attending and/or assisting with 3-5 Hang Wednesday nights from 6:00-8:30pm

• Staffing our children’s ministry events

• Staffing VBS (Five days in mid-June Monday-Friday morning through early afternoon)

Youth ministry interns will get hands on and behind the scenes experience with the practical, functional, and relational elements of leadership and youth ministry. This will include discipleship, youth event and service planning, preaching, and administration among other things. Interns may choose an Jr. or Sr. High emphasis if they like.

Internship may Include:

• Preaching 1-3 youth sermons

• Event planning with department oversight

• Meeting with department leader

• Weekly admin/general ministry

• Attending and assisting with Sunday morning youth service

• Attending and assisting with Wednesday youth services each month

• Staffing youth trips (Summer camp and/or winter camp)

• Attend Wednesday evening post-service fellowship (pool party, Dutch Bros, movie night)

• Attend 2-4 non-Wednesday/Sunday youth events (field day, movie night, etc.)

• All youth events and trips are free for interns and leaders

Spanish ministry interns will get hands on and behind the scenes experience with the practical, functional, and relational elements of leadership and bilingual ministry. This will include discipleship, church event and service planning, and administration among other things.

Internship may include:

• Discipleship

• Service setup & tear down

• Service planning

• Event planning

• Sunday Morning service prep

• Administration

• Wednesday evening leadership trainings

• Meetings with track boss

Production interns will get hands on and behind the scenes experience with the practical, functional, and relational elements of worship production.

Internship may Include:

• Discipleship

• Worship Events

• Audio, Video, Lighting, and Recording training

• Thursday night practice & Creative Team community nights

• Creative experience both live and in the recording studio

• Weekly meeting with department leader

• Attending/assisting with weekly worship services

• Production training

• Discipleship and small groups

Worship Ministry interns will get hands on and behind the scenes experience with the practical, functional, and relational elements of leadership and worship ministry.

Internship may Include:

• Discipleship

• Worship events

• Service planning

• Thursday Evening practice & Creative Team community nights

• Administration

• Event planning with department oversight

• Meeting with department leaders

• Weekly admin

• Attending and assisting with weekly worship services

• Weekly tech training

• Worship leading for other departments in the church

Missions interns will receive training in ministry and cross-cultural experiences. Over the span of the summer internship, each missions intern will grow in life skills, maturity, biblical understanding, relational flexibility, cross-cultural understanding, preaching, praying, and evangelism.

Missions interns will spend the first 4-8 weeks in Phoenix working with the general internship and the remaining 4-8 weeks working in one of the following missions fields: Belize, Peru, SE Asia (anti-trafficking), Puerto Peñasco, or Phoenix (Refugee Ministry). Missions Interns will need to pay their own way for their time in the field. The fields can range in cost from $0 (Phoenix) to roughly $4,000 depending on the chosen field and length of stay. Interns will need to pay and/or fundraise on their own for travel and living expenses while in-field.

Internship may Include:

• Biblical training

• Cultural understanding and awareness training

• General life skills and discipleship training

• Interaction with pastors and leaders at Living Streams

• Training on fundraising strategies

• Local international/refugee ministry experience

• 4-8 weeks experience in a mission field