Greenville College Interns Serve in a Variety of Ministries

Students majoring in Pastoral Ministry, Urban & Cross-Cultural Ministry or Youth Ministries at Greenville must complete an internship sometime in their college careers.

This summer sixteen students were deployed in a variety of location and ministry settings. The venues in which students gained invaluable pratical experience in ministry range from local congregations to summer camping ministries and an itinerant team of Christian musicians.

Several denominations and traditions are also involved in providing such internship experiences, including: The United Methodist Church, the Evangelical Free Church, The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, the Southern Baptist Convention, and the Free Methodist Church as well as independant congregations and para-church ministries. Students dispersed from the Greenville campus to internships based in Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Washington and Wisconsin states.

Upon their return to campus this fall, these students met in a debriefing session where each presented a case study based on their summer experience.

This summer's interns are working under the supervision of Dr. Joe Culumber, assistant professor of religion at Greenville College.