Summer Internships run for 11 weeks, beginning the day after Memorial Day.
A stipend is available to qualified applicants. Summer Interns live on-site to facilitate a deep sense of Christian community
During this life-changing summer, you will grow in understanding homelessness, poverty, and ministry in the context of the urban core of Kansas City.
We offer two different internships:
The Camp CUMCITO Internship.
Camp CUMCITO is located near Warsaw, MO, and serves children ages 5-16 from Kansas City’s urban core, offering them unique opportunities such as tent camping, fishing, swimming, archery and crafts. Staff focus is on sharing the gospel while building relationships with their campers. Camp CUMCITO interns serve 7-weeks at the residential camp in Warsaw and 4-weeks at City Union Mission in Kansas City. This challenging and rewarding experience consistently calls interns to rise to the occasion with perseverance, leadership, mental strength and teamwork.
The Camp CUMCITO Internship may be for you if you are:
- Diligent in your work and service to others.
- Desiring to better understand the gospel as it relates to urban ministry and outdoor recreation.
- Wanting to share God’s love by ministering to kids through camp opportunities.
Founded in 1935, Camp Cumcito sits near Warsaw, Missouri and offers a one-week summer Bible camp experience to 400 children and teens, ages 4-16, every summer. Serving low-income children, mainly from urban KC and rural Benton County, we give priority to those who couldn’t pay for camp otherwise. Interns function in a team to facilitate Camp CUMCITO with like minded volunteers and staff to model and teach the gospel, healthy ways of living, and relating to CUMCITO campers. Responsibilities will vary widely as the summer shifts from preparation to camp sessions and end with follow-up home visits.
Expectations
There are some things you can expect to happen every day while you are an intern at Camp CUMCITO. Camp is outside in the midst of nature where you can experience swimming, lake time, chapel two times a day, eating three meals a day, engaging with the urban core, engaging healthy lifestyle, serving in a team context, and lots more as you experience each week of camp.
The intern serves in a variety of roles over six weeks of summer camp, which include: cabin, rec, lifeguard, craft, chapel, housekeeping, food service, medical, journalism, administrative task, etc. We end each week of camp with prayer, paperwork, preparation, and rest before the next week starts.
