Spiritual AND VOCATIONAL PREPARATION

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This competitive serving-learning opportunity is for university students and young adults who will complete a collaboratively designed field project with a YWAM, a ministry partner host, or our YWAM Christian Study Centre. We have coordinated international internships for over three decades. 

Though many have opted not to seek academic credit, students from over 100 universities in nine countries have integrated their studies with service projects worldwide.  They served in over 40  countries on more than seventy- five project teams. 

Typically, student gather for a pre-service orientation at an appropriate location. Previous orientations have been in El Salvador, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Korea, Mexico, Singapore, Switzerland, and eight States in the USA. 

The majority of the Church today, including the future majority of missionaries, lives in the Global  South. Most of the energy and passion for world missions is in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and parts of Asia. Most students in those regions lack the financial resources to travel to a ten-day orientation before their internship. 

Converge Fellows are guided by the course content and choose a personal Mentor through preparation, enculturation, assessment, collaboration, and completion of their project.  The course includes over 50 relevant and insightful video interviews arranged in 10 pre-departure lessons. 

Fellows begin the course several weeks before their Fellowship begins. The course continues with on site assignments designed to help every Converge Fellow to work closely with their host supervisor and to successfully complete their project and engage at a deep level with the host community. This course was originally designed exclusively for college internships, however, now we also accept any highly motivated young adult to apply to be a Converge Fellow.