Internships with P2C-Students

As an intern on campus, you will have the opportunity to work directly with students. You’ll invest the better part of your day in their lives: helping them transition to university, connect to Christian community, and take their next steps towards Jesus. 

Practically, this might include prayer meetings, Bible studies, retreats, and student leader meetings, among other activities. Every campus looks a little different. As a campus intern, you’ll be serving locally alongside other colleagues so you’ll experience a dynamic team environment that creatively finds ways to engage students with the gospel.

In this role, your focus will be on casting vision and equipping students to lead well and with a Jesus-centred posture. Catalytic campus ministries have a high degree of student ownership over day-to-day ministry activities, so staff and interns often offer support from a distance or to multiple campuses.

Your work environment might be flexible: you could be right on campus, or you might spend most of your time serving students remotely. Regardless of your location, you’ll be part of the catalytic staff team, receiving support as you build up young leaders. You’ll thrive in this role if you’re confident working independently and have prior student leadership experience with P2C-S, or are otherwise familiar with campus ministry.

Bridges staff work on campuses in Canada with students from countries all over the world. You’ll have a unique opportunity to share God’s love and gospel with the multitude of nations at your doorstep. 

Many of these students come from unreached people groups and from nations where Christian ministry is difficult. As you build relationships and share the gospel, you are not only investing in individual lives, but also the communities to which these students will return. 

International student ministry is very relational. You will spend time with students: eating meals, playing sports, and hosting events. You will find ways to meet their practical, social, and spiritual needs. Our team from across Canada meets regularly online, so you will be supported, encouraged, coached, and trained for cross-cultural ministry.

As a global intern, you will be placed on a team with one of our overseas partnerships. You’ll come alongside long-term missionaries and local believers to help university students engage in the life-changing message of the gospel. Many of the students you’ll engage with have never personally met a Christian, and you’ll likely interact with individuals from unreached people groups.

This experience includes cross-cultural and contextualized ministry training prior to departure and throughout the year. Global interns participate in language classes and seek to build friendships and integrate into the local campus community. They also share housing with other interns or long-term missionaries as they build deep connections and support one another.

Our Creative Communications department creates opportunities to reach students in a unique way. 

If you intern with Creative Communications, you’ll join a team working on things like social media, graphic design, video production, podcasts, blogs, and data storytelling. You’ll learn technical skills, as well as innovation as you engage effectively with students online. 

This job is often a mix of collaborative and independent work. You’ll connect with other content creators to explore the best ways to engage with students online, while also having freedom to work on related projects independently. This team is fully remote, but there is an optional physical office in Guelph, ON.

Apply your skills in programming, statistical analysis, and problem solving in a ministry team context. You’ll provide vital support to other ministries within P2C-Students, including Global Missions, Creative Communications, Campus Strategies, and Staff Development.

Strategies and Operations is more behind-the-scenes, but P2C-Students needs this team. If you have technical skills and long to use them in a ministry context, this is the role for you. This team works remotely, but there is an optional physical office in Guelph, ON.

Absolutely! You can try out different passions and interests while working with us. Let us know in the application if there is a combination of roles that interest you, and we can see how to incorporate them.

An internship with P2C-Students will still be a great start to your career. You’ll develop skills such as team building, project management, initiative-taking, collaboration, organization, and administration. Your role may also build technical skills like videography, marketing, graphic design, writing, and even software development.

Furthermore, your own faith, leadership, and character will grow. And developing yourself as a person is valuable no matter where you go next in life.

No. That’s the beauty of doing an internship. You can try working for P2C-S for one year, maybe two, to see if it’s a good fit. God calls some interns to join P2C-S longer term, while others discern that he is leading them elsewhere. Either is okay and we will bless you in your next steps as you follow the Spirit’s leading.

First, you’ll fill out an application, like this one. Then an initial interview allows us to get to know you and your heart behind applying. It will also help you to continue discerning if an internship is right for you. 

The next step is a more formal job interview, with the goal of understanding what God is calling you to do in this next season based on your previous experience and existing skills. Each stage in this process helps to confirm your decision to do an internship with P2C-S.

Learn more about the application process here.

You’ll receive a week of training as you prepare to start raising support (including learning the biblical basis for MPD and how to fundraise well). There are two more training intensives (in August and December) on a variety of topics to help you do your job well. And throughout the year you’ll receive ongoing training. In a first year internship you’ll receive training in understanding how your life fits into God’s mission of renewal and restoration, partnering with the Spirit, and different models of sharing the gospel. Second internship topics include leadership, biblical understanding, discipleship, and prayer. 

The best part about the training is that it’s meant to not only help you in your internship with P2C-S, but also with the rest of your life. You’ll grow as an individual and as a follower of Jesus.

For each internship year, you’ll need to raise financial support to cover your salary, benefits, and all ministry expenses. For an internship in Canada, you’ll need to raise roughly $35,000 – $45,000. The amount for global internships (STINT) is higher as these are longer and include additional travel-related expenses.

Note that Power to Change offers a salary range based on several factors; you choose how much you are paid within minimum and maximum amounts. A higher salary results in a larger fundraising goal. Everyone’s financial situation is unique, so our Internship Coordinator will work with you to select the right salary to meet your needs.

First off, know that you aren’t a failure if that does end up happening. You have a part to play in this. Practically this might mean shortening the length of your internship (e.g. from two semesters to one), continuing to raise support part-time while also working in your role, or not interning at all. It can feel really disappointing to not reach a fundraising goal. But it will not make you a failure. Success is trusting God’s provision, even if it comes in unexpected ways.

Being in debt does not automatically disqualify you from serving as an intern. We will assess each candidate’s situation on a case-by-case basis. Part of the application process is to gather more information (individual loan amounts, interest rates, monthly payments, etc.). 

It is our desire to help you look at your current reality, as well as the near and distant future in order to help you be the best steward of your finances. We want you to consider the potential personal costs associated with high debt, which include greater stress and anxiety, plus a decreased ability to save, give generously, and take advantage of opportunities