INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION
INTERNSHIP
HOMESTAY IN BOSTON & SHORT-TERM MISSIONS TRIP TO UGANDA
SUMMER 2025
May 27 - August 16, 2025
Participants fundraise $6,500 to cover the costs of the trip to Uganda, but are paid $5,000 total by The Navigators
Application Deadline: January 2, 2025
Sharing your faith with others is a form of cross-cultural communication. If you follow Jesus, then you have different values, strange behaviors, and even foreign vocabulary, when compared to your nonbelieving friends and neighbors. As Jesus' followers, we immensely increase our effectiveness when we learn principles and strategies for building relationships with people of other cultures, and we accelerate our own spiritual growth in the process! The Northeast Navigators offer you an opportunity to grow in this way via a 12-week paid summer internship in Uganda & Boston.
Applicants should be established in their faith and personal devotional life, and ready for an intensive growth experience. They should be eager to learn new perspectives, even when those perspectives challenge old, cherished traditions. They should be willing to jump into challenging or uncomfortable scenarios, in order to learn what God can teach us when we sacrifice our personal comfort and trust in Him.
This opportunity will be especially meaningful for students who have friends from other countries/cultures, anticipate living internationally, or intend to live in an urban center where immigrants make up a significant portion of the population.
Read below for more information about the trip!
WHAT TO EXPECT
Individuals must complete two interviews in January as part of the application process. Acceptance letters will be issued on or before February 1. Once accepted, you will receive support from your Nav leaders to begin raising funds. The internship will begin in Boston on May 27, so plan to arrive on May 26! After an orientation to prepare you for your international cross-cultural experience, you will depart for Uganda on June 3 and remain overseas for four weeks, returning to Boston on July 1. Then, you will spend the next seven weeks living in a host home in Boston (room and board is provided for all interns), and serving people from other nations who now call Boston home.
TRAINING
& SERVICE
In Uganda, you will learn from veteran practitioners and Ugandan Christians who run a ministry for rural villages that joins public health concerns, community formation, and spiritual growth. In Boston, you will build relationships with refugees and immigrant families, learning more about their experiences. You will also serve low-income families and people experiencing homelessness, increasing your awareness of the complex factors that shape diverse communities in urban America.
CROSS-CULTURAL EXPOSURE
Being immersed in a new culture will help you grow to better understand your own. Through this exposure and the counsel of Navigator staff with 20+ years of experience in cross-cultural missions, you will learn to recognize and respect differing cultural values and worldviews. Further, you will gain practical experience in making disciples of all nations (Matt 28:19).
SPIRITUAL
FORMATION
You will join Ugandan university students in evangelism on their campus and build confidence to live out your faith in new contexts. Throughout this trip, you will learn the integration of physical, social, and spiritual development in various ministry approaches. Learning from varied voices and perspectives will enrich your spiritual journey. You will experience how God is blessing the nations through his people as He has promised to do throughout Scripture (Gen. 12:1-3) and become part of that blessing!
Read about D4D at navsd4d.org
For more information, contact Robert Meyer: robert.meyer@navigators.org
