30 results for tag: Christian internships

Desires of the Heart

By CBM National intern, Matt Presley - So back in October I began talking to God about what my next step in life was. I was two months away from finishing a ten month internship program at the Blake House, a faith based men's regeneration program. It was now time to start looking for a job, which I was praying would include God's purpose. A month later and a long story short, He said "I've got the perfect thing! How about another internship program with a children's ministry!?" Scripture says when you seek God, He'll give you the desires of your heart (Psalm 37:4). Just know it often doesn't look the way you would have it. Here I am, 36 years ...

How to Get Into the Routine of Things by Getting Out of the Routine of Things

By CBM National interns, Jerri and Scott Carpenter - Reading your Bible is wonderful and awesome, but somehow, most of us are still guilty of feeling like we HAVE TO do it instead of really WANTING to do it. The same thing goes for our prayer life too, at times. We pray for our meals, pray for God to use us, and pray for a good day, which are all great things to pray, but we should not be praying just to check something off our to-do list. Prayer is so very important and deepens our relationship with our beautiful God! So how do we get into the routine of things by getting out of the routine of things? That sounds crazy and unreasonable, ...

Living Out Love

By CBM National intern, Mark Martens - Have you ever had a time when you were reading a passage of Scripture and part of a verse just gripped you for some reason? Well, this happened to me not too long ago while I was reading My Utmost for His Highest for my devotions. I came across the verse, 2 Corinthians 5:14, which says, “For the love of Christ controls us…” It was that part of the verse that gripped me. The reason this resounded with me is because more often than not, I like to try and take control of my life. It can be very easy for us to think we can do this.   As I kept pondering this verse, the question, “How often ...

For the Sake of the Gospel

By CBM National intern, Timmy Martens - As a CBM National intern, one of my responsibilities during my rotation at Camp Victory is to assist with Released Time (a ministry where we teach the Bible to school children during school hours: https://childrensbibleministries.net/camps/classes), which is something that I haven’t participated in actively since my senior year in high school. Thankful to have been given the opportunity to serve in Released Time once again, I read over my lesson and gave adequate preparation time in case I was asked to teach. Holding the four-page lesson in my hand began this weird “trip down memory lane” ...

7.4 Billion Reasons Why You Should Do Missions and the One Reason Why You Aren’t

By CBM National intern, Paul Daly Since the beginning of the New Year, I have been working in Raleigh, NC helping out in New Life Camp’s outreach ministry to Cedar Point, an apartment complex that houses refugees. They have a program there called Homework Help. Most of my work here in January and February will be with that program, helping refugee children with their homework, which is a real need in that community since many of the kids there are thrust into school based on their age and not their education. I remember noticing, the first time I walked through the apartment complex, that it wasn’t really anything special or different; ...