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1-Year is a one-year ministry trip experience for students graduating high school or college, or those desiring to take a "leave of absence" from college studies.

Expand your worldview, challenge your limits and invest a year of your life in kingdom work you never thought possible. Do you have what it takes? Find out here!

2010 Application Process

  • Review the 1-YEAR requirements.
  • 1-YEAR interest questionnaire submitted.
  • Interview with age-appropriate pastor (either college or student ministries pastor), review of application, and potential approval.
  • 1-YEAR application submitted.
  • Interview with Global Missions pastor, review of application, and potential approval.
  • Application with specific ministry organization (if needed).
  • Additional ministry training and preparation (if needed).
  • Funding provided by personal support and partial Chapel support.
  • 1-YEAR ministry trip experience with monthly reports and dialogue with age-appropriate pastor relayed to students within the ministry.
  • Post-trip interview and presentation of experience to appropriate target audiences.

For more information, contact Jim Moore.

Maria's 1-Year Story

mariaAfter graduating from high school, every eighteen-year-old is faced with many big decisions. I had scholarships and careers available to me, but I felt God calling me to something different—a year on the mission field. I felt an urge to go, so I gathered my courage and put my faith in God and joined Operation Mobilization for a year in the country of South Africa.

In September 2008, I arrived in South Africa and joined the African Exposure team. The "A-Team," as it was referred to, consisted of eight Germans, three South Koreans, three Americans, one Dutch and was led by two South Africans. The whole idea of the A-team is to expose foreigners to the issues, culture, and people of South Africa. So for five months we traveled around southern Africa: in Swaziland, Namibia and South Africa to show the love of Christ in various ways.

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