Throughout the year Ministry Interns will receive a range of Bible teaching and ministry training, in several specific areas. 

TEAM

Interns spend a day a week at the Training for East Anglia Ministry course. This focuses on helping people understand and teach the Bible and spends time looking at a broad spectrum of Christian ministry including areas like counselling, evangelism, mission and youth work. The course is taught through a mix of lectures, discussions and small group work.

Lunch with Alasdair Paine

During term time Interns join our vicar Alasdair each week for lunch to discuss his upcoming sermon. This is a great opportunity to learn about the work that goes in to preparing a sermon as well as giving you the opportunity to ask questions, and provide input.

Mentor

Each Intern will have a ministry supervisor, with whom they choose a book to read or a personal study project to work on.

Conference

All Interns attend the 9:38 Maximise Conference, free of charge.

There are also lots of opportunities for gospel ministry. Each Ministry Intern is assigned a major and a minor ministry area, and will be able to try out giving talks and leading Bible studies, doing evangelism, children or youth work, as meeting individuals in a one to one relationship for pastoral care and discipleship.

Major Ministry

This might be involvement in a regular small group ministry like Focus (undergraduates), iHUB (internationals), or HUB (20-30s).

Minor Ministry

This is a chance to get experience of a different area of church life, like Pathfinders youth group (11-14s) or a Sunday morning children’s group.

Other opportunities

There a many other informal opportunities to do ministry at StAG events and elsewhere. This might involve Occasional Preaching at a smaller local church or a college chapel, giving a talk to older people at Wednesday Outlook, engaging with non-Christians at Big Questions (the Cambridge Christian Union’s weekly apologetics talks) being a CU Guest or leading evangelistic talks and Bible studies.

A crucial element of the Ministry Intern Year is to support the practical aspects of the church’s activities.

Main responsibility

Each Intern will have a main area of practical responsibility, like ordering supplies, AV/Tech, or being responsible for the upkeep of the kitchen.

Set-ups

Once a day there’s a buildings set-up for the whole Intern team, to clear up after one event and prepare the church building for the next.

Other areas of service

Interns will also usually serve at a mid-week crèche and there are a few other practical tasks that happen outside of term-time.

Interns are Non-Employed Voluntary Workers. Each Intern is strongly encouraged to apply to the Jesus Lane Trust for a grant to cover living costs, and accommodation is provided by the church free of charge. We do not expect our Interns to need to raise their own funds.

The post is subject to full enhanced DBS disclosure (for regulated activity with children) and the person appointed will need to sign the Leaders’ Agreement and Statement of Faith.

St Andrew the Great takes the safety of everyone within the church very seriously and expects all voluntary workers to work within the church safeguarding policy (see www.stag.org/safeguarding) and complete the necessary safeguarding training.

An Occupational Requirement exists for the voluntary worker to be a practising Christian in accordance with Schedule 9 of the Equality Act 2010. 

In order to be considered for this role applicants must have the right to work/volunteer in the UK (e.g. settled status or graduate visa) for the duration of the role.