Whether going to your neighbours, or to the other side of the world
Whether leaving school, taking a career break or relocating family
What can you do to play your part in reaching the Unreached?
Get in touch, talk to one of our team interns@unreached.network
internship
Full or Part Time
Your placement or ours
Learn along side your current role, or try something new
12 month programme for those exploring cross-cultural mission in the UK or overseas.
Internship Mini
Part Time
No placement needed
Excellent training and goup mentoring sessions
“To be ‘mission literate’ in both understanding and skill, being able to relate cross-culturally for the sake of the gospel.”
Walking humbly with God (Micah 6:8)
Walking humbly with people (Phil 2: 5-8)
Engaged in local mission (Acts 1:8)
Engaged in global mission (2 Cor 5:17-20)
Developing your personal call (Jer 1:5)
Training and Learning (Matt 28: 19-20)
Training or teaching others (2 Tim 2:2)
Language (Acts 2:9-11)
internship
12 Months
£1,250 (includes books and conference fees*)
4-5 hours per week, plus placement hours, 3+ weekend residentials
1:1 Intentional Mentoring
*The cost of travel is not included, nor any overseas residentials
Internship Mini
10 months
£350 (includes course books)
4-6 hours per week
Group Facilitated Peer Mentoring
*option to add on any part of the full internship programme at additional cost
Core elements
Monthly Modules
Biblical Basis of Mission
Perspectives 1
Perspectives 2
Skills
Communicating Cross Culturally for the sake of the Gospel
Justice
Cross Cultural Church Planting
Apostolic Lifestyles
Globally Diverse Church and Mission
Longevity
internship
On-the-job training while on placement in the UK or overseas. Your placements or ours. Full or part time.
3 face to face weekends with Unreached Network in September, January and July
10 Monthly zoom training sessions with experienced speakers, reading and assignments
An Unreached Mentor to support your learning, development, explore calling and walk with God.
Regular connection points and opportunities to serve with Unreached Network sphere events, conferences and in house training.
Internship Mini
10 Monthly zoom training sessions with experienced speakers, reading and assignments.
10 group mentoring sessions to support your learning, development, calling and walk with God.
Optional connection points at other trainings and events.
Placements
Flexible – your placements or ours.
New – help your local church to engage the unreached on their doorstep
Explore – Spend a few months in different locations
We have a bank of placements all over the world and in the UK.
The possibilities are as endless as your imagination, so don’t be afraid to dream.
optional extras
Understanding Islam (One Saturday per Month, online and in person)
Teach English for Mission TESOL (One evening plus 5 hrs private study per week)
funding
We understand that taking time out to learn can be daunting and costly, but we hope this doesn’t put you off!
Generating Support Use this handout as a tool to consider how you might generate financial, spiritual and emotional support for the year.
Budgeting Spreadsheet Download this and use it as a guide to help look at overall costs for the year and help with budgeting.
Email us at interns@unreached.network for help and support
Supporting information
Testimonies
Lucy
After spending many years working cross culturally in one of the poorest states in India, I thought coming back to the UK was just a time to wait.
But, this year on the Unreached internship I find that my world is being flipped upside down.
Relationships have been formed with people from other cultures on my doorstep which have been so life giving.
A highlight for me has been to see the church rise up and get involved.
Rebekah
Jesus has gently challenged and magnified in my heart the importance of stepping into relationships with people who are not like us – people from different nations, backgrounds, faiths and cultures. I hope that as you consider an Unreached Internship that God will stir a desire within you to take his gospel to those from other nations, those who are on the margins and those who are different.
Ian
I am being reminded of the centrality of the Great Commission and making disciples. It is not that I didn’t believe that before, but my focus was elsewhere. I am sure there are more lessons to learn and there will be.
Perhaps what I will find is that the opportunity to serve God in a different context changes ‘unreached’ parts of my soul, mind and heart.
Joy*
My placement is in a new multicultural church plant; as it is in its early stages, there are lots of opportunities for participation. To facilitate the various cultures represented, we worship and pray in various languages and we fellowship together after church with a shared lunch. During the week I help out at a mum’s and toddlers’ group and an English class, which has afforded me opportunities to befriend ladies from various cultures in the surrounding community.
Read More of Joy’s* story here
*real name changed
Will
How can a place capture you completely?
This enormous place! Nowhere on earth puts you back in your insignificance quite like it.
The pace will leave you shellshocked, the sounds, colours, heat, language, bells, animals racing towards you until you can bolt that door.
Kristina
My Internship consists of a placement one day a week and for this, I am placed at Hope Church, Luton. As part of this, we are running children’s holiday events, with our next one coming up at Easter.
At Christmas, we ran our first holiday event. It was a success, we had a good turnout and we all had lots of fun together playing party games, getting creative with crafts, decorating biscuits, hearing the Christmas story, and acting it out.
Much to gain, everything to loose. Mark 8: 34-38
Join us and talk to our team at interns@unreached.network.