Experience life change through a global missions service internship
If you have considered full-time missions work in the future, why not gain hands-on experience today? A Converge International Ministries [IM]PACT Global Missions Service Internship will allow you to personally encounter the challenge and adventure of global ministry.
[IM]PACT is more than a resumé filler. You’ll experience the unique culture of a foreign land while making an eternal impact by taking the life-changing gospel to the world’s least-reached people.
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Share the gospel
Take the life-changing gospel to the world's least-reached people.
Cross-cultural experience
Gain ministry experience by serving in other cultures of the world.
Discover your calling
Your internship will help provide clarity and direction in your life.
This was a great experience. I got clear direction on what I should be doing with my life and how I should move forward. Now, nothing's holding me back. I'm pursuing God's calling in my life.
Reese P., [IM]PACT Intern, Togo, Africa
Metro SenWest Initiative
June 1 - July 13, 2025
Internships available: 3
Has God given you a missionary heart for the world? What does missionary life look like? Come explore these questions while walking alongside experienced missionaries in a variety of outreach activities. Participate in daily missionary life in bustling cities and meet friendly Muslims along the way. Taste African culture and see firsthand the great gospel need in the Muslim world. Grow as a disciple-maker for Jesus. Is God drawing you to the unreached Muslim world?
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Japan Initiative
June 30 - Aug. 11, 2025
Internships available: 8
Interns will have the opportunity to serve along side our Tokyo and Shirahama teams. In Tokyo, they'll be working with a network of churches between Ikebukuro and Tokorozawa, building evangelistic relationships through English ministry while receiving ministry experience in the largest megacity in the world. In Shirahama, interns will serve in a rural, coastal town south of Osaka, alongside a church that serves the community with a suicide prevention ministry.
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Thailand Initiative
June 12 - Aug. 8, 2025
Internships available: 10
Interns will build relationships with Thai students through evangelistic English classes at Santisuk English School in Bangkok, Thailand, inviting them to cell, worship, outreaches and other events intending to help them come to Christ. You won’t be just teaching English, but giving your students the opportunity of a lifetime to hear about Jesus, usually for the first time.
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Spice Islands Initiative
Internships available: 6
Come and work among four unreached people groups in a remote and beautiful area of the world that few people have the opportunity to visit. The Islamic people you will live among have animistic strongholds, but you will be part of a team seeking to launch gospel movements. Experience culture through homestays. Prayer walk through villages. Study local language. Hike, snorkel and camp in this tropical region. Support local organizations (English teaching, environmental protection, nutrition education, etc).
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Thailand Initiative
May 1 - November 1, 2025
Internships available: 3
Videographer: Shoot and edit short to medium length videos.
Children's Ministry: Engage in ministry activities with Thai children; teach English; make arts and crafts; play soccer, etc.
Sports Ministry: Help run a sports camp for kids, youth or adults; help us get our multisport facility up and running.
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6 Degree Initiative
June 27 - Aug. 4, 2025
Internships available: 6
Interns will have the opportunity to live cross-culturally in West Africa. They will learn and help lead children’s and sports camps, ministry site construction, leadership training in local churches and evangelism and outreach. They will explore their passions, purpose and calling. They will grow in persistence, humility, and their relationship with God.
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Nordic - Baltic
June 1 - July 31, 2025
Internships available: 1
Grow in your faith as you serve in Sweden, a northern European country where secularism and progressivism prevail. In fact, in this Nordic-Baltic region of the world, just 2-3% of people follow Christ. You can help make a gospel impact here as an [IM]PACT Intern. You will work alongside the innovative and growing SOS Church in Västerås, a Stockholm suburb, by helping coordinate and serve in outreach, evangelism and summer camp opportunities.
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Nordic - Baltic
June 1 - July 31, 2025
Internships available: 1
Grow in your faith as you serve in the Baltic country of Latvia. Work alongside the innovative and growing Latvian Baptist Union and its churches. Help coordinate and serve in outreach and evangelism opportunities, youth engagement, camp ministries and the unique Latvian Draft Camps. There is growing momentum for the church in this former Soviet republic. We estimate that only 2-3% people in the Nordic-Baltic region follow Christ.
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Nordic - Baltic
Sept. 15 - Nov. 15, 2025
Internships available: 1
Grow in your faith as you serve in the northern European country of Finland, which is in a post-Christian era and secularism and progressivism prevail. In fact, in this entire Nordic-Baltic region of the world, just 2-3% of people follow Christ. As an [IM]PACT Intern here, you will work alongside the creative Good Coffee Company and the Finnish Baptist Union by helping coordinate and serve in outreach, evangelism and ministry opportunities through the coffee shop and associated churches.
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Nordic - Baltic
June 15 - Aug. 9, 2025
Internships available: 4
Grow in your faith as you serve in Estonia, where less than 2% of the population knows Jesus. Spend much of your summer outdoors, working alongside Converge global workers and local leaders in a variety of summer camp ministries. You will experience youth and children’s outreach and evangelism in cross-cultural environments among Estonian and Slavic people groups and bring the gospel to those who have never heard the Good News of Jesus Christ.
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How it works
Missions internships make an impact on both the interns and the people they serve for a lifetime. Because it is important to us that you to have a meaningful experience, Converge will be with you every step of the way. From the moment you inquire about an opportunity, we’ll help you select the right one, make sure you are prepared, provide a dynamic ministry experience when you are on the field and help you readjust upon your return.
Application & Interview
Fill out the application to get started. Then we'll contact you for an interview
to prepare for next steps.
Before you go, you'll receive training for your specific internship and how to raise financial support.
Live your mission
You'll have a safe and impactful missions internship experience as you gain ministry and leadership experience.
When you return, you'll take time to discuss your experience with other interns. We'll support you as you readjust and talk next steps.
[IM]PACT Global Missions Service Internships typically last 6-10 weeks in the summer. Internships are volunteer and unpaid. You will need to raise support to cover your expenses.
Cost vary by location, but generally range from $3,500 to $5,000 plus airfare. All living expenses (food and lodging) will be covered while you are serving and during your debriefing, but all personal items and expenses will be your responsibility.
You must be at least 18 years old to apply. Applications are due 6 months before an internship begins (typically by December).
