Short-Term
Discover your place in God's mission
Join our Discover program and use your skills to serve the Lord full time for one year after you graduate while you intentionally and prayerfully consider whether God is calling you to long-term ministry. As you work alongside our team, you’ll grow through mentoring and community and use your gifts to solve real ministry challenges that help our partner ministries overcome barriers to the gospel all around the world.
How Long?
One Year
Where?
Elkhart, Indiana
Who?
Recent Graduates
What does it look like?
Your Discover year is designed to help you grow personally, professionally, and spiritually as you serve full time in ministry and discern God’s call for your future.
Practical Experience
You'll gain hands-on experience in your field as you work alongside experienced staff, applying and growing your skills on projects that help ministries overcome barriers to the gospel.
Ministry Trip
You’ll join our team on an overseas trip where you'll serve alongside our ministry partners, apply your skills to real challenges, build relationships, and see how God is at work.
Support + Benefits
During your year of service you will receive a salary funded through personal support raising and benefit from our educational assistance program to help pay off your student loans.
Living + Community
We'll help you find housing (often with our staff), connect with a local church, and build meaningful relationships with our team as you grow in independence and everyday life skills.
Growth
You'll be mentored by experienced missionaries, grow personally, spiritually and professionally, and gain skills in areas like support raising — equipping you for long-term ministry.
Discernment
Our goal is to help you prayerfully seek God, think biblically about your life and calling, gain clarity on where God’s leading you, and make it easy to move into long-term ministry here or elsewhere.
The Journey
1. Explore
Explore whether God might be leading you to spend a year serving with us. As we have prayerful conversations and walk through the application process, we'll discern together how your gifts and passions might fit here.
2. Prepare
Once you accept an offer, we'll walk you through 2-3 months of support-raising training (typically before you graduate), equipping you with the biblical foundations and practical skills you need to build a team of supporters.
3. Raise Support
You'll spend 2-3 months meeting face to face with people you know to build your team of prayer and financial partners, with weekly coaching to keep you encouraged, accountable, and on track.
4. Serve
Once you’re fully supported, spend a year serving alongside our team in Elkhart, using your skills on real ministry projects, growing through mentoring, and joining us on an overseas trip to see God at work.
5. Discern
Throughout your year, we'll prayerfully walk alongside you – helping you discern by mid-year whether God is leading you to long-term ministry here, and then using the remaining months to prepare you to join the team.
Ready to take the next step? Have more questions?
What are the opportunities?
We’re looking for recent graduates with a variety of skills who are ready to contribute to meaningful ministry projects.
Other opportunities: