Young Adult Internship Programs in the USA

You can be involved in mission and never leave the United States. There are plenty of opportunities to broaden your horizons domestically.

The Episcopal Urban Intern Program, founded in 1991, recruits young adults from across the country to work full-time in a social service agency, live together in Christian Community, and to develop their spiritual lives. The program is designed for persons interested in discerning their vocational goals, ordained or lay, or for those simply seeking to give a year of service to others. EUIP is housed at Holy FaithChurch, a bilingual, multicultural congregation in Los Angeles.

The Johnson Intern Program, Inc.(501-C-3) is a 10-month opportunity for post-baccalaureate young adults to serve in an intensive experience of social justice, leadership training, communal living, and spiritual development. Part-time AmeriCorps volunteer opportunities are available within the program.

The Micah Project, a ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, invites young adults to ask themselves what does the Lord require of them, but to do justice, love mercy and walk humbly with God, during a nine month internship of service, Christian community, and discernment. Since 1999, a group of Micah interns have come together in community, volunteered their services, and reflected upon their life’s work and purpose each academic year.

The New York Intern Program (NYIP), sponsored by St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in West Harlem, is a service-learning program for young adults to strengthen and deepen their spiritual lives and vocational development through a year of urban service and intentional living. The NYIP experience allows interns to be transformed by the lives of others while making a difference in the struggle for justice, dignity and human rights.

Pathways to Ministry, established in 1999, offers a 10-month internship designed for young adults, recently graduated from college, who are seriously considering seminary and ordained ministry. Through immersion in all aspects of parish ministry over the course of the ten-month period, interns engage in intentional discernment for ordained ministry at one of the most distinguished Episcopal churches in the nation.

Resurrection House is an academic year internship for recent college graduates emphasizing vocational discernment, hands-on parish ministry, and community living. Three or four participants are annually selected to live in an intentional Christian community in a rehabilitated church vicarage on the grounds of the Episcopal Church of the Resurrection in Omaha, NE.

Servant Year is a ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania and the Synod of Southeastern Pennsylvania of the Evangelical LutheranChurch in America. The purpose of Servant Year seeks young women and men who have completed at least one year of college to explore urban ministry.

Trinity Volunteer Corps is a ministry of Trinity Episcopal Church that seeks and provides five young adults with a 11-month experience and opportunity to live together in an intentional Christian Community while working with local social service agencies in the greater Washington, DC area.