1.Tell us about how you are ministering to children and youth.

The drug index in South Africa is very high so children and adolescents get involved too early in the use of methamphetamine, some at the age of 10, and they have a life expectancy of only 10 years. We have developed a work with these at-risk children where we aim to take them off the streets after school and provide them learning opportunities in the areas of music, theater, art, soccer and computer classes. In this way, we believe that in addition to showing Jesus as the only hope we also give them training and skills in fields that can offer a more promising future.

2. What are some roles that interns could take on while serving with your team?

We’d appreciate having people who could serve as English Teachers, Construction Workers, Woodworking Instructors, Soccer Coaches, Computer Skills Teachers, Cycling Instructors (we have a Mountain Bike program with the teens), and Discipleship Program Assistants. Interns can also help with the Bible Club, teaching and playing games with the kids, and help in our afternoon movie time where we show Christian (and other wholesome) movies.

3. What are some ministry tasks that you want the intern to accomplish while serving with you?

We have found that it’s important to have something ready to teach kids and teenagers that can be organized into an ongoing program for the period of time the intern will be with us. It can be Bible teaching or a course teaching a specific skill. We do like to play games and take the groups on outings so interns can participate in those activities as well. We also highly value our discipleship program and see it as a key component of our ministry and we would love for interns to join us in that ministry.

4. What would a typical day look like?

Normally in the mornings we have a time of worship and intercession with the local missionary community. We also use some of the weekday mornings to build relationships with local people, such as going out for coffee, meeting in homes, providing counseling, and so on. From Monday to Friday all of the afternoons until 5 pm interns would be busy helping with our programs. Interns would have some free time on the weekends as well as church activities on Sundays.