Student Internship Grant
Helping future leaders gain experience and mentoring opportunities through our churches and schools.
Application form for churches- Application form for prospective interns
- Form for references of prospective interns
The Saskatchewan Conference of MB Churches wishes to encourage its constituency churches to train future leaders. The Student Internship Grant operates on the basis of a partnership endeavour between the Saskatchewan MB Conference, recognized Bible colleges and seminaries, and the local MB church. The purpose of the Student Internship Grant is to:
- Foster an interest in leadership development;
- Create a climate of leadership development; and
- Provide an additional means for future leaders, their schools and the local MB church to participate in leadership development.
Student Internship Grants will be available each year. Each grant will consist of $150 per month of internship (maximum of $1,200). The grant will also award a $37.50 per month honorarium to the intern’s local church coach (maximum of $300). The total grant is $1,500 if an eight-month internship maximum is reached.
Students who have been awarded a Leadership Matching Grant
(LMG) from the Canadian MB Conference will not be eligible for the Saskatchewan Student Internship Grant (SSIG) in the same academic year.
Requirements
Intern
- The intern must be registered at a recognized and approved Bible college or seminary.
- The intern must have an agreement with the college or seminary to participate in an internship.
- The intern must be prepared to provide a personal testimony of their internship experience to an annual provincial convention.
- The intern will meet with a Harvest Saskatchewan Team (HST) representative and/or with the Director of Church Ministries (DCM) as requested.
Church
- The church sponsoring the intern must match, as a bare minimum, the $1,200 portion of the Student Internship Grant.
- The church must provide an internship plan that includes the roles and responsibilities of the intern as well as any compensation to be received.
- The church must assign a coach who will meet with the intern on a weekly basis for the duration of the internship.
- If possible, the coach should participate in a regular HST coaching network (two hours per month for the duration of the internship).
- The local church is responsible to provide the necessary Tax Information Slips for both the intern as well as the coach.
College or seminary
- The intern’s college or seminary shall provide 50% of the $300.00 honorarium ($150 per internship) awarded to the church coach, payable to the Saskatchewan MB Conference.
General information
- All inquiries should be forwarded to Darren Holland of the Harvest Saskatchewan Team (306-946-3785).
- The Student Internship Grant application must be forwarded to the Director of Church Ministries (619 Spencer Way, Saskatoon, S7K 7S9) at least two months prior to the start of the scheduled internship. The DCM will forward all applications to the HST.
- The awarding of the Student Internship Grants will be determined by representatives of the HST and the DCM.
- The HST budget will determine the number of annual student internship grants available.
Sample scenario
Bruce was a full-time student at Bethany College. As part of his program of study, Bruce wanted to begin an eight-month internship at Lucky Lake Christian Fellowship September 1st. He had submitted an internship application to the church in May; the church approved his application. The local church then completed its application for the Student Internship Grant and sent it to the HST. Lucky Lake Christian Fellowship also forwarded an internship plan to the HST together with a commitment to match the Student Internship Grant award. Bethany College had submitted a recommendation for Bruce’s internship together with their $150 portion of the intern coach’s honorarium to the HST.
Having received all the necessary documents and monies, the Director of Church Ministries and the HST approved the awarding of a $1200 grant to the church. The HST had also approved a $300 honorarium for Bruce’s intern coach, a lay leader at Lucky Lake Christian Fellowship.
At the end of December (the internship’s mid-way point), the SK MB Conference issued the church a cheque in the amount of $1500 with the understanding that $300 of it went to Bruce’s intern coach. The HST had verified that Bruce would be completing the remaining four months of his internship.
Bruce reported to the HST representative twice during his internship and provided a testimony of his experiences at the Saskatchewan MB annual convention. Bruce’s coach connected with the HST representative twice a month (for approximately an hour each time) to dialogue on matters pertaining to the internship.
