Our 9-month ministry apprenticeship in Rome trains you in practical and reproducible church-planting principles and gives you plenty of hands-on experiences to put these principles into practice among refugees and migrants from the 10/40 Window.
Rome sits on the threshold of global refugee migration. As hundreds of thousands of refugees flee their homes to find better lives, Rome is often their first stop. This gives unprecedented opportunities to “go and make disciples of all nations.”
These refugees come from many unreached people groups in the 10/40 Window and beyond, with significant communities from 6 of the 10 largest unreached people groups in the world. This makes Rome one of the most strategic places to prepare for missions and church-planting.
By learning to navigate the numerous cultural transitions into Italian and diaspora cultures, you will expand your ministry skillset and ability to meet the physical, spiritual, and social needs of the vulnerable and unreached.
Many missionaries are pursuing church-planting strategies limited to only one church being planted. In our Rome Apprenticeship training program, we draw from extensive research studying the 80+ church-planting movements going on around the world right now to train you in planting your first church so that it will reproduce itself many generations deep. Your training and mentorship will include foundational principles for making disciples and multiplying churches as well as personal development, culture adjustment and daily hands-on ministry experience.
Each trainee will get involved in our community center, which provides language and adjustment classes for migrants, refugees and international students in transition. You will have many chances to build relationships and share Jesus every day by doing life with these communities and seeing God transform their life.
During your apprenticeship in Rome, you will work alongside our long-term team, including experienced missionaries and Muslim-background believers, to launch church-planting movements among diaspora unreached people groups and send migrants on their way with the gospel.
Many Bible schools and missionary training programs leave you front-loaded with teaching without giving you much opportunity to put your education into practice.
At International Project, we truly believe experience is the best teacher, so we have designed the Rome Apprenticeship with a “just-in-time training” approach. This means that as soon as you are trained in a church planting principle, you get opportunities to put it into practice.
Some highlights of the Rome Apprenticeship experience will include:
I never thought I would spend two months in NYC. I never thought the nations were here. I never thought I could do this kind of ministry until I was out of college and on the mission field. To say that God gives good gifts would be an understatement. I learned to conform to Christ.
I have had an extraordinary summer as an intern for International Project. Throughout this evangelism internship, I have applied different evangelism techniques, practiced corporate prayer,
I never thought I would spend two months in NYC. I never thought the nations were here. I never thought I could do this kind of ministry until I was out of college and on the mission field. To say that God gives good gifts would be an understatement. I learned to conform to Christ.
