"Change your Life.  Change the World."
Spend your summer - May 30 - August 12, 2013 - in one of the Summer Communities of Service
 (An Ecumenical Collaboration of UCC Volunteer Ministries and the Alliance of Baptists)
Ages 19-30 

Applications for Summer 2014 availble in Fall 

Review informational flyer

Year-Long Young Adult Service Communities 2014-2015 also available

• Community Living  
  The "intentional Christian community element" makes this program distinct and effective. Interns share a common food allowance, transportation funds and spiritual growth insights.  Young adults live in community with each other and with their hosts in their temporary city.
  
  
• Leadership Development
  In the UCC diversity is a big piece of our identity.  The UCC issues socially progressive statements and advocates politically from a faith perspective.  These diverse, community-service-integrated ministries are the church showing (interns) where this is happening in our midst.  The projects help interns develop commitment to engage in this kind of ministry long-term.  Their involvement also encourages the churches to which they are assigned.  
  
  
• Hands-On Justice Advocacy/Service Opportunities
  Diversity is manifest in the intern group in gender, age and education.  Summer Communities of Service are settings where the church learn how to be the church in a different way. 

• Faith Conversations
  Former Summer Communities' intern, Melanie Fox, said she had almost given up on the church because she didn't see it "being" the church.  "This gives me reason to believe." 

2013 Hosts for Summer Communities of Service Host Churches
Ellis Avenue Baptist Church Chicago, IL		Wellspring UCC Centreville, VA
Hyaets Community Charlotte, NC		Metro Baptist Church New York, NY
Pass-A-Grille Beach Community UCC Florida		Kirkwood Baptist/Kirkwood UCC Kirkwood, MO