Young Adult Leadership Internships

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Young Adult Service Communities are unique opportunities for you to live in intentional community with others who share your commitment to service and social justice. Together, you will find the space to reflect on questions of meaning and to network for change.

Service and Justice Internships

The YASC network gives you the opportunity to grow professionally and change the world through intern placements with local nonprofit agencies, which are dedicated to justice advocacy and collaborative action.

Congregational Service

Your placement will also allow you the opportunity to grow spiritually as you serve in a leadership position at a United Church of Christ congregation. Through this work you can see the convergence of church and world.

Intentional Community

YASC provides you a space to grow personally by living in community with other young leaders, exploring together your direction, calling and future action in the world.


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Summer Communities of Service (10 weeks)  Ages 19 +

The Summer Communities of Service program is an ecumenical collaboration between the United Church of Christ and the Alliance of Baptists. Particpants live and serve from June to early-August in host congregations around the United States. In each local program of the Summer Communities, you will experience:

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. Participants live in community with each other and with their hosts in their temporary city.

Leadership Development 

In the UCC and Alliance of Baptists diversity is a big piece of our identity. Both churches uphold socially progressive statements and advocate politically from a faith perspective. Diverse, community-service-integrated ministries show interns, congregations, the wider church and world where this faith-inspired work is happening in our midst. The SCOS projects help interns develop long-term commitment to engage in this kind of ministry.     

Hands-On Justice Advocacy/Service Opportunities 

Grow professionally. Change the World.

Faith Conversations

Grow Personally. Grow Spiritually.


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The UCC national setting recommends sites within the United States that host mission opportunities for groups. These host sites are rooted in local communities and utilize volunteer groups in their on-going service within those places. Volunteers experience God’s presence among new people and in new places through these experiences. UCC Mission Trip Opportunities are short-term, lasting up to a week. 


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The United Church of Christ’s Partners in Service program helps increase the service capacity of the partner host organizations and provides leadership development and the opportunity for volunteers to use gifts and skills. Volunteers serve full-time for periods of 2 – 12 months with a host and participate in networking activities with other Partners in Service volunteers. Open for adults of all ages.