Church Planting Internship 2025
Jul 2025 | Ethnos360
Church Planting Internship 2025
Trip #27248
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Trip #27248
Church Planting Internship 2025
Trip #27248
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Ethnos360
Papua New Guinea, Oceania |
Lasts 3 months to 5 months |
Jul 2025
Internship, Church Planting, |
** See Financial Information Below Includes: Lodging, Meals, Travel to and from location |
$9500
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What the Mission Trip Will Be Like
Spend a semester in Papua New Guinea getting firsthand experience in cross-cultural church planting. Get exposure with experienced church planters to the culture and language of tribal people, translating the Bible, preaching the gospel, and establishing indigenous churches among them. Find out if cross-cultural church planting is where God wants you!
Orientation
The orientation lays the foundation for the semester, covering such topics as motivation for missions, evangelism and discipleship, cross-cultural communications and mission methods.
Language
Learn how to learn a language, and diligently put those principles into practice to learn Melanesian Pidgin throughout your time in Papua New Guinea.
Culture
Find out how to gather culture information, analyze it and draw conclusions from it that help a missionary know how to correctly communicate God’s Truth in another culture.
Literacy
Instruction in teaching illiterate people how to read and write their own language. You'll practice these skills by attempting to develop literacy primers yourself.
Translation
After learning more about basic principles of Bible translation, you'll endeavor to translate chapters of the Bible in a way that tribal people can understand clearly.
Chronological lessons
Learn what's involved in foundational Bible teaching, and develop three Bible lessons with tribal culture and language in mind.
Evangelism
Find out how to teach Bible lessons effectively in a cross-cultural environment, and teach a lesson for practice.
Early church development
What does a church planter do once there are believers? You will interact with current church planters who will help you grasp the challenges of helping to disciple new believers into mature Christians.
Mature church development
You'll visit a maturing or mature indigenous church after being introduced to the Maturing Church Model and how it is used. You will get to see firsthand the results of church planters using the principles you have studied and practiced.
Wrap-up/debrief
Write an overview of your internship, touching on each aspect of cross-cultural church planting and what God has taught you. You will receive an evaluation by the internship advisor.
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Relation of Opportunity to National Church and/or Long-term Goals
In a semester in Papua New Guinea, experienced church planters will give you insights on the culture and language of tribal people, translating the Bible, preaching the gospel, and establishing indigenous churches on your church planting internship.
Additional Trip Information
Mission Trip Offered By Ethnos360
Motivated by the love of Christ and empowered by the Holy Spirit, Ethnos360 exists to assist the ministry of the local church through the mobilizing, equipping and coordinating of believers to evangelize unreached people groups, translate the Scriptures and see indigenous churches established that glorify God.
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