The locations listed above are places where we have dedicated, full-time staff that host back to back youth mission trips all summer. We are looking for several passionate and hard-working interns to join them in facilitating those trips.

AIM is seeking spiritually mature and disciplined persons of integrity to shepherd mission teams during the summer of 2009. These individuals must be at least 21 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 ensure that 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 the 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:

1. Model and encourage participants to achieve the 5 AIM project objectives
2. Be effective/comfortable in teaching and communicating Listening Prayer
3. Serve the youth leaders so they can focus on the spiritual growth of their students.
4. Communicate with youth pastors/leaders before their trip and on a daily basis during the project
5. Guard AIM's integrity in the community by monitoring the group's actions
6. Debrief on a daily basis with the group to see ways God has worked during that day.
7. Handle the finances assigned to your group.
8. Manage the various elements of the project, such as meal prep, chore charts and leader meetings

Essential Knowledge and Skills

1. Assertiveness - Takes forceful stands on issues without being excessively abrasive.
2. Customer Focus - Regularly monitors internal and external customer satisfaction.
3. Energy - Exhibits energy, a strong desire to achieve, and an appropriately high dedication level.
4. Enthusiasm - Exhibits dynamism, charisma, excitement, and a positive "can-do" attitude.
5. First Impression - Professional in demeanor. Creates favorable first impressions through appropriate body language, eye contact, posture, voice qualities, bearing and attire.
6. Judgment/Decision Making - Demonstrates consistent logic, rationality, and objectivity in decision making.
7. Likability - Puts people at ease by being warm, sensitive, and compassionate. Builds and maintains trusting relationships with all constituencies Ð co-workers, customers, and the community.
8. Stress Management - Must possess the ability to perform the duties of this position in highly stressful situations and environments
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. 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, 2009

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 our Leadership Development Assistant, Christin Barnard at christinbarnard@adventures.org

Fax them to Christin Barnard at 770-983-1061 or mail them to:

Christin Barnard
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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