Internship Information

Living Streams Summer Internship Program gives you a comprehensive overview of what it is like to be on staff at a church. We provide weekly trainings from our pastoral team, weekly community dinners at staff members’ homes, small groups and specific training in your track of choice. Housing and summer jobs are also available in limited quantities.

Cost: $300
*$100 discount per person if you refer someone who is accepted into the program

Experiences in these tracks include local outreach, worship team culture and set preparation, hands on audio-visual experience, and more. The summer internship is a 12-18 hour per week commitment and requires availability all day on Tuesday, either Wednesday or Thursday (depending on your track) and from 7:00am-1:00pm on Sunday for worship services.

Our summer internship is a 12-week program running from the beginning of May through the end of July.

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TRACKS AVAILABLE

All details below are subject to change. Updated track information will be provided by the end of spring semester.

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 Includes:
- 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)
- Six hours of 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)
Overall Children’s Ministry Specific Schedule (SUBJECT TO CHANGE):
Sundays:
5 hours – assisting in Children’s ministry for 2 services and helping with preparation or clean up
Tuesdays:
Intern Program Day
Wednesdays:
3 hours – 6:00 pm-9:00pm – staff and assist in 3-5 Hang
Thursdays:
4-6 hours – training and children’s event
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
Internship Includes:
- Preaching 1-3 youth sermons
- Event planning with department oversight
- Weekly 30 to 60-minute meeting with department leader
- 1-2 hours of weekly admin/general ministry
- Attending and assisting with Sunday morning youth service
- Attending and assisting with 3-5 Wednesday youth services a month
- Staffing 2-3 youth trips (California trip and/or camping trip)
- 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
Overall Student Ministries Specific Schedule (SUBJECT TO CHANGE):
Sundays:
8:30am-9:30am – attend main service
11:00am-12:45pm – serve in youth service
Tuesdays:
Intern Program Day
Wednesdays:
3:00-6:00pm – Ministry Prep Time
6:00-7:00 pm – Leaders meal/meeting
7:00-8:30 pm – Service
8:30—10:00 pm – Post-service hangout
Times do not include non-Wednesday/Sunday events, trips, or weekly meeting with department oversight (specific time TBD)
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 Includes:
- Discipleship
- Service setup & tear down
- Service planning
- Event planning
- Sunday Morning service prep
- Administration
- Wednesday evening leadership trainings
- Weekly 1-2 hour meeting with track boss
Overall Spanish/Bilingual Ministries Specific Schedule (SUBJECT TO CHANGE):
Sundays:
7:00am-11:00am - Serve in Spanish service and attend English service
Tuesdays:
Intern Program Day
Wednesdays:
4:00-6:00pm – Meeting with Track Boss
6:00-7:00 pm – Leaders training meeting
Production interns will get hands on and behind the scenes experience with the practical, functional, and relational elements of worship production.
Internship Includes:
- 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
- 6 hours of weekly production training
- Discipleship and small groups
- Intern dinner with pastors
Overall Production Specific Schedule:
Sunday:
- 5:30 am — Call time for plug in/set up, services ending around 12:30pm
Tuesday:
- Intern Program Day
Wednesday:
- Morning; Teaching and training from Creative Team Staff
- Serving in various worship environments on sound
  - Youth Ministry
  - Special Services
  - Recording Studio
  - Sound, video, lighting and recording production
  - Experience:
  - Designing full lighting shows
  - Learning digital sound consoles
  - Experience with 4K camera system and switching
  - Recording music in our studio
  - Learning to produce a main worship service
Worship Ministry interns will get hands on and behind the scenes experience with the practical, functional, and relational elements of leadership and worship ministry. This will include
- Discipleship
- Worship event
- Service planning
- Thursday Evening practice & Creative Team community nights
- Administration
Internship Includes:
- Event planning with department oversight
- Weekly meeting with department leaders
- Weekly admin
- Attending and assisting with weekly worship services
- Weekly tech training
- Worship leading for other departments in the church
Overall Creative Arts Specific Schedule (SUBJECT TO CHANGE):
Sundays:
- 5:30 am call time for plug-in/set up, services ending around noon.
o Time will vary depending on if you are scheduled for main service or other ministries.
Tuesdays:
Intern Program Day
Wednesday:
- Morning: Teaching & training from Creative Team Staff
- Worship leading experience
  - Youth Ministry
  - Children's Ministry
  - Women’s
  - Main service
  - College
- Event Planning
- Team nights
- Service planning (Planning Center)
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 Includes:
- 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
Overall Mission Specific Schedule before field deployment (SUBJECT TO CHANGE):
*Schedule will change while in-field
Sundays:
7:30am - 1:00 — Church
Tuesdays:
Intern Program Day
Thursday:
9:00am – 1:00pm — Meeting with Mission Track Boss & Refugee Ministry

Summer Job/Apprenticeship

In addition to our regular summer internship, Living Streams Church partners with some of our congregation's local business owners to provide an optional paid supplemental summer job/work apprenticeship component of the internship. These opportunities vary but may include restaurant work, trade work, administration, etc. These are all paid, able to work around your internship schedule, and subject to acceptance by the business owner. They include hands on work experience, and at least a small amount of mentoring from a Christian business owner or manager. You can express interest in the Summer Job/Apprenticeship on your application.

Host An Intern

We’re always looking for people who’d like to provide housing for an intern over the summer. Click here if you’re interested in hosting an intern or email alec@livingstreams.org if you have any questions.

Year-Round Internship

Those who are interested in a year-round internship opportunity should participate in our summer internship program. Our year-round interns are almost exclusively selected from the summer internship.

Year-round interns work and gain hands on experience as an active member of the ministry in which they are interning. This may include things like discipleship, event planning, service planning, administrative work, ministry leadership, ministry specific education and experience and much more.

Living Streams Church gladly partners with most local christian universities and seminaries (including GCU & ACU) to make sure that our internship qualifies for various degree and program requirements like ministry experience requirements, mentorship requirements, & requirements to receive credit for the internship.