Projects will go live on October 2, 2023
Deadline to Apply for Projects is March 1, 2023
Want to serve internationally this summer?
One Missions Students wants to help you as you are seeking to be obedient to God’s call to serve the nations this summer! Applying to serve internationally through One Mission Students qualifies you for up to 30% of your total field costs and transportation in financial assistance if your project is 3 weeks or longer and you complete all requirements listed below. Financial assistance is also based on the amount of fundraising assistance you provide in your local BCM or church. If you’re considering service internationally – get your passport today! All students serving internationally must have submitted an application for a passport before Feb. 1, 2024.
If you have any questions about opportunities listed below, please contact Chris Mills at cmills@alsbom.org.
One Mission Students Must Be:
- Maturing Christians
- Active in an Alabama BCM or Alabama Baptist Church
- Be of good physical and emotional health
- Participate in personal evangelism on your college campus
- Students must refrain from any use of alcohol, tobacco, pornography, sexual contact outside of marriage, and/or any other activity that will call into question your integrity or hinder one’s witness for Christ.
- Completed one semester of college
- Have a cumulative GPA of 2.0 or higher
- Complete a local interview with your BCM campus minister or local church collegiate minister
- Complete zoom or in person interview with One Mission Students leadership, these dates will be determined shortly. You will need to complete the interview as soon as possible to move forward with placement for summer.
- You must also attend REACH Wknd, April 26-27 at WorldSong Missions Place. You will receive more information about this when you are appointed. This weekend will provide you with information about your service opportunity this summer and training in evangelism, safety, and security.
- Commitment to guidance from the Centers for Disease Control, US State Department
- You must also complete two report forms as you serve throughout the summer.
- If you are applying internationally, you should either already have a passport with an expiration date of more than 6 months from the end date of the project you are applying for OR have already submitted an application for your passport!
- You must be willing to be vaccinated with any vaccines required by a country for travel to or through that country. The One Mission Students team will discuss this further with you on a case-by-case basis.
Asia/Pacific Rim :: Eco Adventure
TOTAL ESTIMATED COST: $5330
OMS COST (amount you raise): $3730 (Includes flight, meals, lodging, and travel insurance)
*THIS PROJECT IS FULL*
Do you have a love for hiking, kayaking, fishing, snorkeling, camping, etc.? Do you have a deep desire to share the good news with a people who have never heard? Why not use your God-given passions and desires to do both? In this eco-tourism paradise, there are over one million people who desperately need to hear the gospel, and you will use your hobbies and interests to be a light in this very dark place. We need students who are comfortable in a flexible self-driven structure, and who can meet and follow up with friends that you are sure to make through eco events and day-to-day activities. You will have freedom to make your own schedule and plug into recreational communities that match your interests. Come, walk as salt and light among a multitude who have never heard the gospel all while enjoying the great outdoors. Your first stop will be a joint orientation with other Nehemiah Teams at the Nehemiah Teams Training Center in Mentone, Alabama. Learning the skills needed to carry out your assignment as well as team building will fill these first few days. Your team will fly to your final destination for the summer. Following your summer of ministry, you will return to the US for a joint debrief… sharing all God has done over the summer. Participants must commit to the entire program from orientation through the end of debrief.
Australia :: Children and Youth Ministry
TOTAL ESTIMATED COST: $6500
OMS COST (amount you raise): $4550 (Includes flight, meals, lodging, and travel insurance)
Student interns will be participating in small groups, one-to-one Bible reading duos, youth and children ministries. Students will be encouraged to serve according to their gifting, with a special focus on children and youth. They will be given the opportunity for creative involvement along with helping prepare for a large VBS in early July as a community outreach. In addition, they will be assisting in a strong discipleship-focused youth ministry.
Canada :: GenSend 6 Week Option (Montreal)
TOTAL ESTIMATED COST: $1400
OMS COST (amount you raise): $980 (Includes flight, meals, lodging, and travel insurance)
GenSend Summer offers students an opportunity to join God’s great story in Montreal! It is an immersive exploration of what it means to live intentionally in community, while sharing the gospel in a new city.
Join a team of students for six weeks, learning mission principles and living them out in the context of the city. Students will fall in love with the local people, church planters, and missionaries, while learning how to live on mission.
Whether it’s the beginning of a lifetime call to the city or adding new tools to a student’s mission toolkit for application wherever God calls, GenSend Summer will prepare students for the next step in their journey and will change the way they think forever. Students will serve alongside local church planters and compassion ministries focused not on programs, but on engaging the community. If you are not willing to be stretched and are not a self-starter, you need not apply.
GenSend Summer is part mission trip, part seminary practicum. GenSend Summer is designed for students who want to walk away from the summer better equipped and challenged to live their life on mission wherever God calls them…maybe even back in the city they served in!
Canada :: GenSend 8 Week Option (Toronto)
TOTAL ESTIMATED COST: $1400
OMS COST (amount you raise): $980 (Includes flight, meals, lodging, and travel insurance)
GenSend Summer offers students an opportunity to join God’s great story in Toronto! It is an immersive exploration of what it means to live intentionally in community, while sharing the gospel in a new city.
Join a team of students for eight weeks, learning mission principles and living them out in the context of the city. Students will fall in love with the local people, church planters, and missionaries, while learning how to live on mission.
Whether it’s the beginning of a lifetime call to the city or adding new tools to a student’s mission toolkit for application wherever God calls, GenSend Summer will prepare students for the next step in their journey and will change the way they think forever. Students will serve alongside local church planters and compassion ministries focused not on programs, but on engaging the community. If you are not willing to be stretched and are not a self-starter, you need not apply.
GenSend Summer is part mission trip, part seminary practicum. GenSend Summer is designed for students who want to walk away from the summer better equipped and challenged to live their life on mission wherever God calls them…maybe even back in the city they served in!
Canada :: GenSend 8 Week Option (Vancouver)
TOTAL ESTIMATED COST: $1400
OMS COST (amount you raise): $980 (Includes flight, meals, lodging, and travel insurance)
GenSend Summer offers students an opportunity to join God’s great story in Vancouver! It is an immersive exploration of what it means to live intentionally in community, while sharing the gospel in a new city.
Join a team of students for eight weeks, learning mission principles and living them out in the context of the city. Students will fall in love with the local people, church planters, and missionaries, while learning how to live on mission.
Whether it’s the beginning of a lifetime call to the city or adding new tools to a student’s mission toolkit for application wherever God calls, GenSend Summer will prepare students for the next step in their journey and will change the way they think forever. Students will serve alongside local church planters and compassion ministries focused not on programs, but on engaging the community. If you are not willing to be stretched and are not a self-starter, you need not apply.
GenSend Summer is part mission trip, part seminary practicum. GenSend Summer is designed for students who want to walk away from the summer better equipped and challenged to live their life on mission wherever God calls them…maybe even back in the city they served in!
Canada :: GenSend Calgary
TOTAL ESTIMATED COST: $1600 *Strategic Partnership
OMS COST (amount you raise): $800 (Includes flight, meals, lodging, and travel insurance)
GenSend Summer offers students an opportunity to join God’s great story in Calgary! It is an immersive exploration of what it means to live intentionally in community, while sharing the gospel in a new city.
Join a team of students for eight weeks, learning mission principles and living them out in the context of the city. Students will fall in love with the local people, church planters, and missionaries, while learning how to live on mission.
Whether it’s the beginning of a lifetime call to the city or adding new tools to a student’s mission toolkit for application wherever God calls, GenSend Summer will prepare students for the next step in their journey and will change the way they think forever. Students will serve alongside local church planters and compassion ministries focused not on programs, but on engaging the community. If you are not willing to be stretched and are not a self-starter, you need not apply.
GenSend Summer is part mission trip, part seminary practicum. GenSend Summer is designed for students who want to walk away from the summer better equipped and challenged to live their life on mission wherever God calls them…maybe even back in the city they served in!
Chile :: Reaching Youth
TOTAL ESTIMATED COST: $2500
OMS COST (amount you raise): $1750 (Includes flight, meals, lodging, and travel insurance)
You will develop friendships with Chilean youth for the purpose of making disciples through intentional English, sports/recreation, or other activities in local schools. You will serve alongside the IMB team in Santiago or suburbs of Santiago. We would love to have you join our team! Participants will receive orientation (May 22- 26) and debrief (June 19 -22) with other students serving throughout the Americas. Orientation and debrief will be hosted near Memphis, TN. Summer Sojourner is a volunteer program, where participants manage their own expenses. Students pay transportation to orientation in Memphis, round trip between Memphis and their field of service, and return trip from Memphis home.
Colombia :: Hope Sharer to Colombian Mountain Peoples
TOTAL ESTIMATED COST: $2500 *Strategic Partnership
OMS COST (amount you raise): $1500 (Includes flight, meals, lodging, and travel insurance)
Come help indigenous youth find hope in Jesus! Indigenous youth find themselves torn between their traditions and rituals-driven heritage and the allure of the “outside world.” Many are poor, socially marginalized, from broken homes, and question what they will do with their life. In high school they are required to learn English. If they want to attend the university, they must pass an English test. Your goal will be to develop friendships with these indigenous youth through English tutoring and English clubs. You’ll also drink coffee with them, play soccer, visit their homes, and occasionally visit indigenous villages. All the while, you’ll be sharing about your hope in Jesus through Bible stories and your personal testimony. You will serve in partnership with a local Colombian church, helping them get involved in cross cultural ministry alongside you.
England :: Reach University Students in London
TOTAL ESTIMATED COST: $5800
OMS COST (amount you raise): $4000 (Includes flight, meals, lodging, and travel insurance)
Join IMB church planters, Journeymen, and local partners in meeting, sharing the Gospel with, and discipling university students from around the world. As an integral member of our growing team, you will join us in gathering and grouping new student contacts for events, leading Discovery Bible Studies, and building intentional discipleship relationships.
But that’s not all. Our local churches need your partnership to serve alongside them as they connect with their local university students in order to share the Gospel and disciple this next generation.
So why give up your summer for London? According to The Standard newspaper, London is a modern-day Babel. Home to over 270 nations, this global city breaks records with over 300 spoken languages. On one bus ride alone, you’ll be overwhelmed with the sounds of English, Polish, Punjabi, Urdu, Bengali, Arabic, and French. London is a melting pot of nations in desperate need of the Gospel, and we need your help. Far too many of our communities are filled with people unaware and unconcerned with their spiritual bankruptcy.
Will you join us in sharing the Gospel in London?
Europe :: Euro Traveling Technology Internship
TOTAL ESTIMATED COST: $5300
OMS COST (amount you raise): $3700 (Includes flight, meals, lodging, and travel insurance)
The IMB Field Tech Services team needs you this summer! Based in Europe, you would support field missionaries with all sorts of technical work. The main task will be to provide support at meetings; however, when not doing that, we’ve got all sorts of work that needs done. Web Development. Write scripts. Mobile App Development. Networking. Client Support. There are also opportunities to get involved with local ministry through English Camps. We’re flexible on dates, but we’re looking for a 2-to-3-month commitment between May and August.
Dates are flexible – a change of dates may affect cost.
Lusaka, Zambia :: University Ministry
TOTAL ESTIMATED COST: $5263
OMS COST (amount you raise): $3600 (Includes flight, meals, lodging, and travel insurance)
Impact the Next Generation of leaders and influencers in Africa by making disciples among the University students in Lusaka, Zambia. Students in Lusaka are primed and ready to know the true Gospel and understand what God desires of them. With over 300,000 university students in Lusaka, Zambia, the task of making disciples is huge. Come walk beside young believers as they learn to evangelize and disciple the thousands of others who need to hear the Gospel and be discipled. Freely share on university campuses and meet in small discipleship groups, all while you are mentored by experienced IMB missionaries.
Mexico :: ESL and Evangelism in Indigenous Villag
TOTAL ESTIMATED COST: $1800 *Strategic Partnership
OMS COST (amount you raise): $1200 (Includes flight, meals, lodging, and travel insurance)
ESL, Backyard Bible Clubs, Sports Camps! Can you speak English? Can you play with kids? Would you love to brighten the lives of indigenous peoples by sharing your language and culture with them? Come serve in the mountains of rural southern Mexico with the Mexico Mixtec Team. Join the most fun team in the Americas as they build relationships that will lead to evangelism and church planting. In all seriousness, having fun with people is your job!
*Some Spanish Language Ability Preferred
North Africa :: Summer Sports Camps
TOTAL ESTIMATED COST: $6020
OMS COST (amount you raise): $4200 (includes flight, meals, lodging, and travel insurance)
Come spend the summer with us in North Africa! You will have the opportunity to help implement various summer camps (multi-sport, baseball, basketball, swimming, art, music, etc.). We are also looking for someone to do photography and media during summer camps. While helping at camp, you will have numerous opportunities to interact with local coaches and teachers. We will encourage you to spend as much time as possible with your new local friends over coffee, in their homes, at the beach, etc. During these visits, you will be presented with many opportunities to present the Good News. Our team will also spend time with you each week to mentor you and to fellowship together.
North Africa/Middle East :: Community Center Engagement – Using Your Giftings
TOTAL ESTIMATED COST: $6080
OMS COST (amount you raise): $4250 (includes flight, meals, lodging, and travel insurance)
Come serve at a Community and English Language Center in NAME. Use what the Father has gifted you in to serve the community with the aim of boldly sharing Truth. This platform uniquely gives you the opportunity to meet your neighbors where they are. Whether it is community development through sports, art, business/trade seminars, or through teaching English, come and use your gifts and hobbies to help serve and share Truth in NAME.
North Africa/Middle East :: Front Line Evangelism Through Cultural Exchange
TOTAL ESTIMATED COST: $5835
OMS COST (amount you raise): $4085 (Includes flight, meals, lodging, and travel insurance)
Share Truth on the front lines of North Africa/Middle East through our cultural exchange program. Meet English-speaking Arab college students, study Arabic, and immerse yourself in the culture of one of NAME’s largest cities. You’ll be a learner, a partner, a sower, and a friend. The harvest is plenty – come and work the field!
Peru :: Evangelism and Discipleship in the Andes Mountains
TOTAL ESTIMATED COST: $2800
OMS COST (amount you raise): $1960 (Includes flight, meals, lodging, and travel insurance)
Students will be formed into 2-3 teams to travel to indigenous villages in the Andes Mountains to assist in gospel work. Your team will work with a national partner in creative access projects, evangelism, and discipleship of new believers.
Philippines :: Philippine Summer
TOTAL ESTIMATED COST: $3564
OMS COST (amount you raise): $2490 (Includes flight, meals, lodging, and travel insurance)
Multiple teams are needed in the Philippines! Cross land and sea to share the Gospel in villages where spiritual darkness abounds. The people have been led astray by the enemy’s lies and it’s time they knew the truth of the Gospel and the Savior who came for them. In areas where the Gospel has been skewed and distorted and is now nearly unrecognizable. You will be sharing truth with many who have never heard it told correctly. Work alongside local believers to share Biblical truth with people who may have never owned a Bible or read it for themselves. With the goal of making disciples and the hopes of planting a church, you will be a part of a greater team effort to reach the lost by going into less-accessible areas via motorbike, boat and on foot. Large groups of students will be divided into smaller ministry teams and sent to various locations throughout the country.
South Korea :: Refugee Ministry
TOTAL ESTIMATED COST: $4450
OMS COST (amount you raise): $3115 (Includes flight, meals, lodging, and travel insurance)
Oppressive governments and famine have displaced this unreached people group. Every year, thousands of refugees leave their totalitarian country, where Christians are killed without trial, in search of a better and freer life. After escaping their home country, these young people travel through several Asian countries – many of them hostile – until they reach safety in South Korea. Some of these refugees were even born in other countries as their parents hid and tried to make a living. Some of them have been in danger, human trafficked, or emotionally scarred and are in desperate need of a Savior. This summer, travel to South Korea and live with these refugee students in apartments or dorms, teaching them English and life skills, while showing them that there really is a God who loves them.
Southeast Asia :: Campus Light Exchange (University Ministry)
TOTAL ESTIMATED COST: $5372
OMS COST (amount you raise): $3760 (Includes flight, meals, lodging, and travel insurance)
Spend the summer living on a college campus where 98% of students do not know Jesus. You will go to language and culture classes as part of an exchange program and spend the afternoon and evening building relationships and sharing the Gospel over great food, tea, sports, English clubs, and student outings. You will live on campus and have the opportunity to build deep relationships with students, many of whom have never had anyone explain the Gospel to them. Student will also be tasked with encouraging believing students on the campus in their walk with the Lord and outreach to the lost. Your first stop will be a joint orientation with other Nehemiah Teams. Learning the skills needed to carry out your assignment as well as team building will fill these first few days. Your team will fly to your final destination for the summer. Following your summer of ministry, you will return to the US for a joint debrief… sharing all God has done over the summer. Participants must attend the entire program from orientation through the end of debrief.
Southeast Asia :: Equatorial Evangelism
TOTAL ESTIMATED COST: $3692
OMS COST (amount you raise): $2580 (Includes flight, meals, lodging, and travel insurance)
Be part of what God is doing to complete the Great Commission among the last unreached people groups in our city, located directly on the equator. Our city has a decent population of Christians, but there is not much work happening and no church has been started among our focus people group. You will be a tourist and spend your time in public spaces, including a river walk and other parks, sharing the gospel and looking for individuals open to hearing more. Your first stop will be a joint orientation with other Nehemiah Teams. Learning the skills needed to carry out your assignment as well as team building will fill these first few days. Your team will then fly to your final destination for the summer. Following your ministry time, you will return to the US for a joint debrief… sharing all God has done. Members must participate in the entire program from orientation through debrief.
Southeast Asia :: Preschool, VBS, and Prayer-Walking
TOTAL ESTIMATED COST: $5057
OMS COST (amount you raise): $3540 (Includes flight, meals, lodging, and travel insurance)
*THIS PROJECT IS FULL*
If you love kids, have a sense of adventure, and know prayer can change lives and even a nation, then this team is for you. In partnership with a foreign-owned preschool, help full-time teachers teach English and VBS. In addition to many children, the preschool also has many non-believing staff. You will develop and teach a curriculum that will share God’s love, His creation, and redemption for the world. Other weeks will be spent prayer-walking, praying, and pleading for the unreached, while exploring nearby rural provinces. This strategic area needs the Gospel and work has been slow. Help prepare the soil and hearts to receive the Good News.
Southeast Asia :: Reaching the Unreached and Unengaged
TOTAL ESTIMATED COST: $6000
OMS COST (amount you raise): $4080 (includes flight, meals, lodging, and travel insurance)
We need you! There are countless villages throughout East Indonesia that have never heard the good news of Jesus. Millions of people without hope who need to hear about Jesus. Are you willing to travel by plane, boat, motor, or trekking to reach them? Come join our team to advance the gospel amongst the unreached.
Spain :: Church Planting and Ministry to Students
TOTAL ESTIMATED COST: $5340
OMS COST (amount you raise): $3740 (Includes flight, meals, lodging, and travel insurance)
University Student ministry in Madrid, Spain. Join us in ESL classes, a variety of student outreach activities, one on one personal evangelism, discipleship, and seeker Bible study groups for the purpose of contributing to an ongoing church planting effort in the heart of Madrid.
We are open to participants utilizing specific gifts to serve in more creative and personal ways, such as music, sports, etc. Spanish ability is appreciated and useful, but not essential.
Dates are flexible – a change of dates may affect cost.
Wales :: Student Leadership Team
TOTAL ESTIMATED COST: $3800
OMS COST (amount you raise): $2650 (Includes flight, meals, lodging, and travel insurance)
This team is specifically designed for the student who is a natural leader and can handle fast-paced, high energy tasks. Members of this team will be a Leadership Team involved in running short-term missions projects in the Caernarfon/North Wales area among the Cymry Cymraeg (Welsh speakers). Short-term teams will include activities related to music ministry, prayerwalking, missional living, sports, recreation, and narrative mapping. Members of this team are encouraged to know how to host and adapt well to change. It is very much a camp counselor type position but with groups of youth, university students and adults. Several tasks commonly found for members of this team include budgeting, food/supply shopping, transportation planning, and enthusiastic leadership. Don’t be afraid to get your hands dirty and do “whatever it takes” to get the job done. This team is for the person who loves to serve, lead, and be with people as you share the Gospel and help others to do the same in a post-Christian society. Specifically, this leadership team will be working with two primary projects during their time in Wales. The first is a very large group (about 150) comprised primarily of teenagers from the music programme of one Alabama Church. The second team is of university students doing a week of ministry follow-up following the Choirs and ensembles from the previous week’s project.
You can view more opportunities from the International Mission Board at imb.org/students/student-trips.
NOTE—to apply for One Mission Students funding and training, you MUST complete the application at the link above and list the IMB project that you are applying for.
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