WorldSong Missions Adventure Camp is a traditional overnight-style summer camp serving children in grades K-12 and their leaders, which places a special emphasis on missions and cultural education. Students serving with children will supervise and lead up to 12 campers Monday-Friday, leading them in Bible study and various other activities such as Archery, Hiking, Culture Camp, and more. WorldSong staff are diverse in their experiences, skills, and passions. We need all kinds of personalities to ensure we have the most qualified staff for our campers. We need introverts and extroverts, energetic and introspective personalities, to ensure that we have the right kind of leader for each individual camper!

Special requirements: Students need to have a passion for children’s ministry/overnight camping with children, and the outdoors.

Birchwood Behavioral Health/Alaska Baptist Family Services exists to bring hope, healing, and wholeness to Alaska’s youth and families. We provide trauma-focused residential and outpatient care for children and teens who have experienced severe emotional, behavioral, and relational challenges. Our purpose is to create a safe, Christ-centered environment where youth can heal from past hurts, build healthy coping skills, and discover their true worth. When students serve with us, they help meet practical needs on our campus through renovation projects, activities, and meaningful time spent with our youth. By volunteering, students gain hands-on experience in compassion ministry, develop leadership and teamwork skills, and see firsthand how their efforts bring hope to young lives. As a result, they grow in empathy, servant leadership, and a deeper understanding of how the love of Christ transforms brokenness into hope.

Students will partner with direct care staff to build trust and life skills with our youth. Activities include helping lead group outings, recreational and creative arts programs, assisting with daily routines, coordinating activities, supporting mission teams, basic maintenance, and creating or leading Bible studies for youth and staff. Success is measured by active participation, positive connections with youth, flexibility, and feedback from supervisors, all helping create a safe, caring place where kids feel valued and supported.

Special requirements: Students that serve on this project need to understand that many of those they will be serving among have come from very difficult situations. Your work will include both hands-on ministry opportunities and behind the scenes opportunities, facilitating ministry for others.

We are looking for individuals to help us as we seek to build a disciple making movement on the campus at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Students in this area tend to be active, enjoy outdoor activities, and are largely unchurched. Many of the students we meet are willing to have spiritual conversations though they do not have much of an understanding of Christianity. We are looking for individuals who are motivated and willing to form relationships, take initiative, and have had experience with outreach programs (monthly lunches, kick off events, social activities, etc.). Applicants should be able to articulate the gospel and willing to learn how to make disciples and lead small groups. We will spend a lot of time outdoors and in coffee shops meeting students and young adults where they are throughout the summer. Join us for the adventure of a lifetime in the Last Frontier!

Special requirements: Students that have a love for university students and the outdoors.

Camp Baldwin is a faith based overnight camping ministry for children and youth in grades K through 12. You will receive one week of intensive training upon arrival. You will be immersed into camping ministry, including leading Bible studies for various age groups, and behind-the-scenes work at the camp. You will also assist with VBS, community ministries, and weekend work projects. On weekends, there will be time for limited sightseeing, fellowship, Bible study, and helping with youth and children’s Sunday school. The emphasis for our counselors is on spiritual growth and servant leadership training.

Special requirements: Students that serve on this project will need to come expecting to serve on camp staff – knowing that will include ministry to campers, but also all of the background for camp (cooking, cleaning, etc.)

New Life Ministries exists “to serve those in need of food, shelter, and a purpose filled life.” Students will serve at our soup kitchen which serves hot meals twice a day. They will also have the opportunity to teach a class/devotion to the residents in our women’s/men’s shelter. There are also several painting and small projects to work on. If a young man feels called to preach, we will give opportunity to preach at our Wednesday night service. Musicians will also have the opportunity to use those gifts as well. Students will come face to face with and serve those who are homeless, addicted, and are looking for hope. Students will have daily opportunities to share the gospel and personal testimonies. Students who come here to serve will leave different than they came. Serving is real here and so are the testimonies. Jesus is doing great things here and any student who comes will see and be part of it.

Special requirements: Students that serve on this project need to understand that many of those they will be serving among have come from very difficult situations.

Join a dynamic team for a full slate of Gospel centered service to vulnerable immigrant families, teens, and elementary students. The Root Cellar’s robust and creative approach to ministry includes a relational focus with clear demonstrations and declarations of the Gospel of Jesus through summer day camps, teen mentoring, English Language Learning, and food security programing. You will serve alongside The Root Cellar staff to focus on engaging the least of these with the Gospel – immigrants and refugees, homeless, and those living in poverty.

Special requirements: Students that serve on this project should have a heart for compassion ministry and a desire to serve internationals and those living in poverty.

The collegiate missionaries will coach and lead Graffiti Sports Camps utilizing help from visiting mission teams each week. Collegiate missionaries must love basketball, football, dance, and working with children from first grade through middle/high school. Camp is from 9 am-2 pm. After lunch each day missionaries will work with teams providing arts & crafts and an indoor board game time. Collegiate missionaries must be competent and excited about sharing the Gospel with children and helping them to know Jesus as their Savior.

Special requirements: Students that serve on this project need to understand that many of the children and others that they will be serving among have come from very difficult situations.

Students who come to serve with us will have the opportunity to do a variety of ministries to a variety of different people. Interns will form friendships and learn to share the Gospel with thousands of international students who come to work in Ocean City for the summer by serving them meals, planning coffee houses, playing sports on the beach, and teaching through conversational English. They will get the feel of working in a local church ministry by reaching children through summer camps, tourists through church outreach ministries, first responders through service opportunities, and local residents through sports camps and vacation Bible schools.

Special requirements: Students that serve on this project need to have a willingness to engage and serve various demographics of the community – international students, children, tourists, etc.

Expedition Church is a church plant in Livingston, Montana. The relationships needed for Gospel saturated ministry has led us to serve many organizations and households with a compassion ministry model. We are heavily involved in the foster care ministry and working towards starting a group home. Students that serve with us will get to be a part of all of those ministries! You will join a team of students from other states and one of your primary responsibilities will be helping with missions teams and outreach projects. This will include hands-on ministry opportunities and also preparing for the next team by helping turn over the missions house (cleaning, etc.) and working through any logistics.

Special requirements: Students that serve on this project need to have a heart for service – from the mundane tasks to the less mundane ones, and for serving others locally seeking open doors to share the Gospel with them.

Eagles’ Wings exists to help vulnerable youth develop stable relationships with their family, community, and Creator through a free summer camp experience. Student missionaries will share Christ’s story with vulnerable, at-risk young people at a free summer camp. You will use adventure recreation, low-high ropes, archery, horsemanship, your God-given talents and skills, as well as numerous other activities to build cross-cultural relationships with the campers. Campers will learn sportsmanship and communication skills and begin to build lasting relationships with each other, with you, and in many cases, with God. During daily devotionals, small groups, games, and everyday conversation, God will open doors for you to share His gospel. Your gifts may also be used on Sundays at local churches that have a heart for the children we serve. All staff and missionaries will meet together each week to study God’s word. You will be challenged to learn about the sufficiency of scripture, the call to holiness, living out the gospel, and discipling the nations.

Special requirements: Students that serve on this project need to understand that many of those they will be serving among have come from very difficult situations.

Are you fluent in ASL, looking to improve your ASL skills, or do you love working with the Deaf community and kids? The Deaf Camp, a ministry of Brentwood Baptist Church, offers opportunities to work with young children to teenagers, with Deaf and hearing staff, and interact with the Deaf community, Deaf and hard-of-hearing campers, and their families. Two months of Deaf Camp will provide you the benefit of experience working with the Deaf community and children, ASL receptive and expressive skills, and leadership skills. For students to thrive while working with us, they will need at least moderate ASL skills, experience working with children or summer day camps, a heart for Deaf youth to know Christ, flexibility to be indoors or outdoors, and the ability to lead youth activities and classes.

Special requirements: Students need to have at least moderate ASL skills and will complete a zoom interview with field leaders to determine ASL ability.

Serve as a summer mentor at Wears Valley Ranch (WVR)! Mentoring at WVR is life-on-life ministry in the lives of children and students from crisis situations. Mentors at WVR help provide a surrogate family for children who have a problem in the home which they did not create. Our vision is to see each child inspired to follow Christ, healed from the past, and equipped to reach their potential. Mentors are essential instruments for accomplishing our vision! They are the front lines of the change we work and pray for in the lives of our students. Summer mentors get to be a part of this change.

This video provides an overview of what your summer could look like at Wears Valley Ranch — https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JNU_Lh7XoUqOVJRN_8Cd544nHO3b3fZg/view?usp=sharing

Special requirements: Students that serve on this project need to understand that many of those they will be serving among have come from very difficult situations.

Students serving at MCH will be immersed in urban ministry, living and working in one of the most diverse cities in America! You will be trained to share your faith, disciple others, and engage in personal spiritual disciplines. It is our desire to help you grow as a disciple of Christ and to equip you for mission work long after your time with us is through. Each week, missionaries will have multiple opportunities to teach and serve kids, teens, seniors, the homeless, adults, and the homebound. You will also lead weekly visiting youth groups in prayer walking and serving with us. Sundays are extra special as you attend different types of churches in Houston, with some of them having various ethnicities! You will develop as a leader and a disciple, and your vision for missions will grow exponentially.

Our centers are located in under-resourced, urban areas in the inner city of Houston. Our neighbors are primarily Hispanic and 96-98% of the school population are classified as living in poverty, as defined by our government.

Special requirements: Spanish is not required, but helpful. Students that serve on this project will need to have compassion for ‘the least of these.’

Come and join us in an opportunity to engage with one of the largest unreached Muslim diaspora communities in North America. You will be immersed in a cross-cultural environment where you will learn to live missionally—praying strategically, building relationships, sharing the Gospel, and making disciples. Through hands-on experience, you will be mentored by experienced missionaries and equipped to fruitfully engage Muslims with the Gospel, to make disciples of Jesus through Discovery Bible Study (DBS), and to pursue the long-term goal of cultivating a Church Planting Movement (CPM) among Somalis in Seattle. Minister in neighborhoods where thousands of Somali Muslims live, shop, and gather, learning how to plant seeds of faith in a community that has very limited access to the Gospel. Whether over tea in a Somali café, walking through apartment complexes, or attending community events, interns are equipped to cultivate cross-cultural friendships, share the Gospel, and make disciples among the nations in our neighborhoods.

Special requirements: Students serving on this project should have a heart for Muslim peoples and be prepared to go into a very dark and hard place spiritually.

**Dates have some flexibility.