Listed below are the mission opportunities for the summer of 2010. Each of these positions was carefully considered and adopted by the State BCM Missions Team. Our application process is online here.  The applications are due by December 31, 2009.  Each student will participate in our interview weekend at Camp Caraway near Asheboro, January 22-23, 2010.

• Preliminary Auditions will be held in in Late November and early December.  Sites and times will be released in early October. 
• A preliminary audition form is attached.  Click here to download the InVision Audition Form.  This should be printed, filled in, and brought to the audition at one of the listed sites when these become available along with an audition piece (drama, music, interpretative movement, mime, etc.) of your choice. 
• You also need to set a time to audition.  Use this link to select a site and time for your audition. Then, you need to email Barbara Gentry. Her email address is bgentry@ncbaptist.org or call her @ 919.459.5558 to confirm an interview site and time.  No interview times are official until you have confirmation from Mrs. Gentry.  
• Shortly after the audition we will let you know what needs to be prepared for interview weekend. Those "called back" to interviews will fill out the entire summer mission application and attend the January 22-23 interview weekend.   Information about these auditions will be shared through local BCM and church ministries. For additional information, contact Rick Trexler at rtrexler@ncbaptist.org.
• Students must be prepared to utilize drama, interpretative movement, mime, etc., to share the gospel.
• Additional training in Bible study leadership as well as youth and children's ministry will be part of the orientation.
• Students must be willing to live and work as a team for 10 weeks.
• Students must be prepared to live out of a suitcase as you travel the state.
• You will raise $1000 for a two week out of country missions experience as part of your summer service.
• You will need a passport.

• Students will raise the funds for their trip. We are offering a small stipend to assist the cost.
• Projects range from working in migrant communities and sharing with the underprivileged to working with orphans and children.
• Other opportunities will include sharing on university campuses, making friends in English Corners, and hosting Christmas parties.
• Estimated total cost $2,800 ($1900 after BCM stipend.

• Students will pay $2,000 each for this experience.  The Kay Huggins Summer Missions Fund will cover the additional $2,500 per student amount.
• Students will assist staff in caring for babies/toddlers abandoned to the Baby House of the Door of Hope Children's Mission of Berea Baptist Mission Church in Johannesburg.
• Students will live at the Baby House with other staff. Work will be demanding 12- hour shifts, day or night. The work will be tiring but rewarding.
• The students must love babies/toddlers.
• Having experience caring for small children is important.
• Students may be asked to help with taking babies/toddlers to the clinic or hospital, preparing their bottles and cooking meals for the staff.
• Johannesburg is a large, world-class city like any other city here in America, but the students must be able to adjust to another culture.

• Students will learn leadership, organizational, and evangelism skills while coordinating the work of multiple mission teams from U.S. churches and helping to follow-up on contacts made through the ministry of these teams. 
• Students will be involved in: Scouting/Exploring and Greeting and orienting arriving mission teams
• Students will attempt to find “persons of peace” to host home Bible studies and other activities
• Students will spend much of their time developing relationships leading to receptivity of the gospel
• Students will join a church plant reaching out to children and families through creative outreach events designed to build a bridge with the unchurched.  
• Students will be a part of a team of student interns.

• Student will serve the Teadgerville Church as Summer Youth Minister and Associate Pastor
• Must be able to lead Bible studies for the youth and church
• Will have opportunities to teach, preach and daily work within the youth ministry structure
• Youth Ministry activities will be an important part of the summer experience
• Will interact with people from all over the world through recreation and in Bible studies

• Ministry seeks adventurous, creative, and energetic students who will reveal the presence of God to those who live work, and play in this resort community. 
• Students must have a love of outdoor settings.
• Experience working with children and youth is necessary.
• Competence in leading backpacking and outdoor experiences is important.
• Students will assist in the development of resort ministry programs including: children and youth camps, backpacking trips, and relational creative arts.

• The student will work in the Christian Activity Center in inner city, East St. Louis. The focus will be on ministries with children, youth and families.
• The student will be responsible for building relationships through the ongoing programs of the Christian Activity Center: hosting visiting groups, assisting with recreation, devotions, worship, Bible studies, etc.The setting allows the student to use his or her own gifts and experience. For example, a student with an expertise in music or computers or education could have responsibilities assigned consistent with that area of expertise.
• The student needs to be mature and self-sufficient, but also able to work as a team with other students and staff. The student must be comfortable working with a diverse population.

• Students will be using creative approaches to evangelism in working on the beaches of the Mid-Atlantic region of the country. Ministries and evangelistic approaches will include worship services, surf and sand clubs, beach volleyball, campfires, Family Nights and Parent's Night Out.
• Responsibilities will include working with church groups, which come in for a week at a time to assist with the resort ministry, and developing relationships with campground management.  Other responsibilities can be tailored to students' interests and experience, such as recreation, sports, music, drama, teaching children, crafts, worship planning and leading, etc.
• If a student has an interest and some experience in working with international students (skills in ESL in particular), a special assignment could be made in that area of ministry.
• Students should have a good work ethic, for work hours can be long, and must be in good physical condition.

• Student will be involved in church and community ministry in a multi-cultural, urban setting, with a focus on children and youth.
• The ministry will include work in an afterschool literacy program and leadership for the summer day camp, which will involve supervision of highschool volunteers.
• Student should be a creative self-starter, with an ability to teach children. Some theater background is helpful, as well as a sensitivity to people of differing faiths. He/she must be mature and flexible and able to work as a team member.
• Student must be able to live and get around independently in NYC.

• Students will serve as a part of a team
• Ministry will be with outreach to the community
• A love for children is a must
• More information to be posted

• Information coming soon

• This is a Christian interdenominational, holistic, ministry working with people at many levels – empowering the poor, marginalized and unchurched through relationship based programs, and mobilizing middle class Christians to respond with compassion and resources.
• Students will work in several programs or activities of Mission Waco.  Programs include:  inner city children and youth programs;  holistic programs for homeless and low-income adults (social services walk-in center, homeless shelter, treatment for alcohol and drug addiction, job readiness/placement, computer lab, GED); Poverty Simulation; service and mobilizing for visiting youth/college groups; retail (clothing resale, and also café/fair trade market); administration/operations.
• Work is among the poor to develop a Christian worldview
• Summer intern/student program includes Friday Forums on all aspects of Mission Waco and poverty issues, book discussions, bible reading, supervision, Poverty Simulation, attending Church Under the Bridge. 
• (Interns may also go on Mission Exposure Trip to Mexico City at their own expense.)

• The purpose of Rachel Sims Baptist Mission is to “become all things to all people so that they may come to know Him, become discipled, and lead others to Christ thereby changing our world one life at a time.” 
• Rachel Sims Baptist Mission is a weekday Ministry/ Evangelism Community Center in the “inner-city” of New Orleans. 
• Student will be working with low-income, at-risk children and teens in organized ten week Vacation Bible School Programs, sports evangelism camps, Backyard Bible Clubs, discipleship programs, and Teen Bible Club programs including discipleship, sports, and mentoring programs.
• Student will be working alongside NAMB career missionaries, US/C2 missionaries, volunteer church groups, college teams, seminary interns, mission church staff, etc.
• Student will have an opportunity to work alongside Second Harvesters Food Bank in assisting people with food and be a liaison to helping people with emergency needs such as clothing, payment of bills, finding local churches and activities to become involved with, working with the Juvenile Court System in New Orleans, etc.
• Student will have unlimited opportunities to share Christ through planned evangelism programs, life-style evangelism, and opportunities to speak the Word. 
• Student will have opportunities (if qualified) to use computer skills to promote and enhance ministry of Rachel Sims through updating outdated Web pages, helping to develop new promotion brochures, update out-of-date systems, use computer evangelism, etc.
• Student will assist in cleaning and maintenance of the building, living area, and grounds of Rachel Sims Baptist Mission. 
• The hours are long and the tasks endless, but the rewards are unbelievable as we serve our Lord together.

• Summer missionaries will be impacting the lost, encountering cross cultural communities, and will have opportunities to witness to people who have never heard of Jesus.
• They will work with multiple churches across the valley, including language churches doing a first-time Backyard Bible Club, sports camps and/or clinics, Kid’s Club, neighborhood canvassing, and prayer walking.
• Student will work with church planters in teams of three to four students to do Backyard Bible Clubs or Kid’s Clubs in apartment complexes and neighborhood parks in the church planter’s target community.
• We plan to recruit some local youth to partner alongside summer missionaries in these events. Our goal is to reach the lost youth and children in this city.

• The student will work in the offices of the BJC in Washington, DC, a Baptist entity that seeks to provide resources and education for Baptist bodies related to church/state issues. Hence, there should be an interest in and openness to learning about the topics of separation of church and state, and religious liberty.
• The student should be energetic, self-motivated, flexible and open to new experiences.
• The work will include typing, xeroxing, data entry and answering telephones; doing research on legal matters such as court cases, legislative and constitutional bills and opinions in Congress; attendance at press conferences and briefings; and other duties as they arise.
• The student should be mature, preferably a junior or senior, with the ability to live independently in the city.

• Students will work with the North American Mission Board Innovators program in which students work a "secular" job while building relationships with their coworkers. The students will work as employees of Yellowstone National Park in positions within the park's food and beverage services, housekeeping, recreation activities, gift shops, or customer/visitor service. The park will provide room and board, with occasional meals provided by the sponsoring local church members and missionaries.
• The student will have many opportunities to do sightseeing in this beautiful area!
• The need is for Yellowstone Innovators to reach the summer employees of Yellowstone Park in a Christian ministry. The goal is to reach as many summer employees as possible through Bible study/share groups, recreation activities, picnic fellowships, and other ministry tools. Target groups are college-age employees and senior adults.
• Relationship building is key!
• Student should be outgoing, open to people from many different backgrounds, flexible, and a lover of nature. He or she should also have a good work ethic, since the majority of "work" may seem mundane. Gifts in teaching and leading Bible study and musical/worship leadership are helpful.

• One student will work and be part of the staff.
• The focus of ministry will be on building relationships through recreation, Bible study, discussion groups, personal conversations, etc.
• The student should have a love for teen-agers, be mature and have the ability to organize and carry out ministry plans.
• The student serving at Mills Home in Thomasville will be working with the Mills Home pastor and staff in ministering to the youth in residence.
• Responsibilities will include teaching Sunday School, assisting with worship and youth meetings, spending "free time" developing relationships with the youth at the pool on campus, and planning and carrying out activities such as Talent Show, Field Day, and a Beach Trip.
• Knowledge of contemporary worship styles and contemporary Christian music would be helpful in this setting.

• Live in inner-city communtiy home with other interns
• Assist in summer camp experience for local children and youth
• Student must be open to new things and work to build relationships with community residents
• Student must be able to work with children, have lots of energy, willingness to talk to strangers, flexibility, and it would be great if he or she knew how to cook and clean.
• Student should be able to work alongside of adults

• Information coming soon

• Work with Campus Ministry staff to prepare summer missions video and stories
• Travel to a few summer mission sites during the summer for video and pictures
• Assist office in gathering summer missions information and sharing it with local campuses  
• Travel to Caswell and participate in World Missions Week 2010 (July 5-10)
• Work with Baptist State Convention personnel to learn, prepare, and finalize summer missions projects