Internships

The City Vision College curriculum is a unique distance learning experience that incorporates the actual operations of a rescue mission or other approved nonprofit organization as both "laboratory" and "classroom."  The City Vision College approach places a great emphasis on "learning while doing" and requires various assigned tasks at approved training sites. 

The college's internship requirement has many benefits, both for the student and the organization at which they serve. For more information, see the complete list of our courses' on-site requirements. 

To fulfill this requirement, students with no current involvement with a rescue mission or other approved organization may participate in a one-year "on-the-job" training experience. Interns are assigned to training missions that are members in good standing of the Association of Gospel Rescue Missions, or to other approved ministries.

Each rescue mission that participates in the program appoints a staff member to serve as a field supervisor for interns.  These individuals must have at least a bachelor's degree and five years of full-time ministry experience. 

While they are at the training mission, interns are primarily responsible to their field supervisor, who files periodic reports with the college.  They give guidance to interns and organize training experiences to coincide with the assignments of the City Vision College courses.  

Field supervisors coordinate the training experience of interns in conjunction with the college.  They also work with other mission staff members who will be involved with the training experience.  

Interns spend at least forty-five (45) hours per month in activities at the training mission that directly correlate with the subject matter of their courses.  In order to provide time to fulfill their academic responsibilities, they are limited to only six hours a day in ministry-related tasks and have at least one free day each week.

While some training missions give interns housing, meals and modest stipends, they are not employees in a legal sense.