Kailua Christian Church Service Learning Community Internship

Students will be living together in a Service Learning Community of ministry peers seeking to  develop their pastoral voice and leadership style in context of local church and chaplaincy environments. The communal mission for the students will be trifold: 1.) to imagine solutions for the declining mainline church, including developing a contemporary service under direction of the Pastor, Worship Leaders, and a Special Committee, 2.) to develop an existing chaplaincy with Hawaii’s largest homeless services organization, the Institute for Human Services (IHS), 3.) to analyze the context of Christianity in historically colonized settings and its impact on the future of the Christian faith in practice. Students will be held in supportive discernment while they determine their ministry direction by a community that has years of experience guiding Seminarians through their pastoral calls, as well as having access to and education from a variety of professional pastors and chaplains.