What are the responsibilities and job description for the 2025 Family Ministry Intern position at Christ Church of Oak Brook?
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Description
2025 Family Ministry Summer Intern
Position Description
Date: May 27, 2025 - August 8, 2025
FLSA Category: Non - Exempt Function: Internship
Purpose of Internship:
To gain practical experience implementing faith-nurturing programs for students at Christ Church. To gain experience serving in an existing, vibrant, Family Ministry Program, within a church with over 2,000 in weekly attendance across two campuses. To work in partnership with the broader student ministry team to equip and support students, through camps, small groups, and volunteer opportunities to worship, grow, and serve God together.
Position Focus:
Participate in the worship, programming and implementation of summer activities for Christ Church’s Early Childhood through High School ministries.
Supervisory Relationships:
Reports to Middle School Ministry Director.
Essential Functions
- Plan and implement weekly programs.
- Plan and implement special events including mission projects, camps, and outreach experiences.
- Plan, schedule, perform administrative duties of the ministries, and interact with volunteers, parents, children, and students.
Position Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Teaching and creative writing duties - as assigned by direct supervisor.
- Creative hanging-out with students (this could include some evenings and weekends).
- Administrative office duties (calling, e-mailing, copying, folding, envelope-stuffing).
- Shop for trips, retreats, and special events.
- Equip, encourage, and empower volunteer staff when the opportunity arises.
- Attend and participate in ministry training and team-building events.
- Assist the ministry team professional staff, to go into all the world as witnesses of the life-changing love of Jesus Christ; making communities of disciples who worship, grow and serve.
- Interns must be willing to learn and grow into the ministry to which God has called them.
Qualifications:
- Be a follower of Jesus Christ.
- Be a believer in the ministry of the local church.
- Must have completed one year of college
- Candidate should be discerning a course of study or career path related to the area of interest.
- This position requires interns to be flexible, administratively-minded and ministry-focused, organized, and have great interpersonal skills.
- Interns need to be able to work well on a team of people.
- Be willing to dedicate their summer to the internship.
- Love for Christ, kids and heart for serving.
- Be exploring a call to ministry.
Compensation:
Each intern will receive a $600 per week stipend for the summer, pro-rated for the length of the internship. As a non-exempt employee, you are entitled to overtime for any hours worked over a 40 hour work week.
Schedule Expectations:
Full employment will begin on May 27, 2025 and will conclude early to August 8, 2025, unless other arrangements are made. A typical workweek is Tuesday-Friday Sunday (40 hours per week). If there are conflicts in your summer schedule, please inform us of specific dates when you apply. A calendar covenant will be agreed upon by intern and supervisor at the time of employment.
Qualifications
Housing/ Transportation:
Applicant is responsible for finding and securing their own housing and transportation for the summer.
Salary : $600