3 Credit Hours
A course designed to give the student “hands-on experience.” This course should usually to be taken during the summer preceding the student’s senior year. It requires the student to be placed in an intern relationship with a veteran youth pastor in a local church. Working under the supervision of that youth pastor while still reporting to the course professor, the student structures the internship around an assigned checklist of experiences which includes counseling, teaching, preaching, planning, visitation, and discipling. While working through this checklist, the student is required to invest a minimum of 15 hours a week for eight weeks.