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International Service Opportunities
"Explore the World through Service to others" 
The real benefit of international service lies not in the experience itself, but in the challenge it creates for students to build on their cultural experience and world view. An effective international experience must push its participants to question their own comfort zone, spark critical thinking about social problems, and inspire continued action in the name of communal welfare.
Break Trips...
By far the most popular international service trips available through Sewanee Outreach are the Break Trips. Each year, over 50 Sewanee students travel throughout the Caribbean and Latin America, doing service as varied as building construction to sea turtle conservation. Click below to view more information on these amazing experiences:
Jamaica
Haiti
Costa Rica
Ecuador
For those students interested in long-term volunteering during the summer, the Lilly Program offers paid internships in the service field. The point of the Lilly Program is to encourage and foster consideration of service in the future lives of participants. Students spend 5 weeks on site and two weeks at Sewanee. Many Lilly program volunteers have traveled throughout the world to complete their internships. For more information about the Lilly Internships: The Summer Discernment Institute - Click Here.
Biehl Program in International Studies
A self-directed social science research internship conducted outside of the United States and other English speaking First World countries. Projects facilitate substantial contact with the society to be studied and are focused in one area, or a few closely related locales, rather than several sites. Open to returning majors in the departments of Anthropology, Asian Studies, Economics, History, Political Science, and International and Global Studies
Preliminary Proposal Deadline: February 5, 2007
Final Proposal Deadline: February 19, 2007
For more information, contact the office of Career services at 931-598-1121 or careers@sewanee.edu
Environmental Studies Internships
Through the generosity of the Brewster Fund and the LeRoy Endowment, Sewanee's Environmental Studies Program offers several stipends for environment-related summer programs in and outside of the United States. Proposed summer internships must be related to an environmental major: Policy, Ecology and Biodiversity, or Environmental Chemistry.
Application Deadline: February 12, 2007
For more information, contact the office of Career services at 931-598-1121 or careers@sewanee.edu
The International Partnership for Service Learning offers semester-long programs meant to coordinate service with academic study. Students take classes in one of 14 countries as well as working on-site in service positions. Sites include such widely-varying locals as the Phillipines, Ecuador, and France. Year-long master's degree programs in international service is also available.
The Peace Corps traces its roots and mission to 1960, when then Senator John F. Kennedy challenged students at the University of Michigan to serve their country in the cause of peace by living and working in developing countries. From that inspiration grew an agency of the federal government devoted to world peace and friendship.
Since that time, more than 182,000 Peace Corps Volunteers have been invited by 138 host countries to work on issues ranging from AIDS education to information technology and environmental preservation.
The Ministries with Young People cluster works for the full participation and inclusion of children, youth, young adults, and students in higher education in the church of today and tomorrow.
The cluster focuses with four program staff on: Children's Ministries and Christian Education, Youth Ministries, Young Adult & Higher Education Ministries, and Ministries with Young People Resources. There are three parallel provincial program networks served: Episcopal Council for Christian Education, Provincial Youth Ministries Coordinators, and the Provincial Coordinators' Group for Ministry in Higher Education. Non-geographic networks served by the cluster include: Resource Centers, Children's Ministries and Child Advocacy, and Young Adult Ministries. The cluster has strong connections with ecumenical partners through the National and World Councils of Churches, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and other agencies. International connections are maintained through the International Anglican Youth and Family Networks as well as work with the Anglican Observer at the United Nations.
Internship / Mission Opportunities
Do you want to:
Make a difference in this world?
Step outside your comfort zone?
Learn more about the world, the church, and God?
The Episcopal Church offers many opportunities for young adults to make a difference. The Office of Young Adult Ministry can put you in touch with internships all over the United States or through our partners in the Anglican Commuion you can travel to countries all over the world.
Domestic Internships & International Internships
Spirit, Soil and Voice
The Role of Faith, Culture and Art in Peace-building
The Episcopal Diocese of Arizona together with the South Africa Community Fund is taking Episcopal universtiy students into an intensive workshop in South Africa to learn about peace-building. For more information, Click Here
Global Youth Connect is an organization which strives to encourage and empower young people to be global peacemakers. Youth trips to such places as Cambodia, El Salvador, and Rwanda help foster an understanding of poverty and conflict as well as helping students to further visualize their place in bringing about an end to such tragedies.
Heifer International, a worldwide organization working to end hunger and degradation through the promotion of agriculture, offers study trips to many of its sites around the world. Travelers are able to see first hand the effects that charitable work can have.
Habitat for Humanity offers a number Global Village trips in which participants learn about and spread awareness of poverty housing in the Third World, as well as working to complete building projects in foreign nations.
Other Outreach Opportunities
Besides our specified outreach projects, Sewanee students and alumns engage in widely-varying international service experiences. Recently, a sewanee student spent a year teaching english at the Episcopal University of Haiti. Another used his Sewanee contacts to volunteer in Kingston, Jamaica over the summer. The list is lengthy. The Outreach Office has connections in numerous nations. Students interested in planning independant and/or long-term service work are encouraged to talk to Dixon Myers in the Outreach office. His email is dmyers@sewanee.edu and phone number is 931-598-1156.
Last updated on October 23, 2006 by Tom Howick
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