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 AIMS
Partnerships Launch an Internship Program
in Tanzania
AIMS
News: Posted 4/1/2005
In
January, seven missionaries with Fuel International
flew to Tanzania to begin a ten-week internship program
to mobilize the Tanzanian church to reach the unreached
in their country. Fuel developed this internship in
partnership with AIMS and Calvary International to train
and equip American teams to raise 31 teams from Tanzanian
churches to reach the remaining 31 unreached people
groups in their country.
"This
internship program has the same end goal as our Equipping
for the Harvest efforts," said "Abraham,"
AIMS Director of Strategic Development, who joined the
internship team during their first four weeks of training
in Tanzania. "But the model differs in that we
are sending residential teams to do the job."
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"This
fills a niche in the body of Christ. If a church
or agency needs a model for training and deploying
missionary teams...we have it." |
Throughout
the internship program, the team will learn about cultural
adaptation, ethnographic research, church planting strategies,
and team dynamics and have the opportunity to apply
them on the field. Currently, the team is building relationships
with a small population of Somalis living in a Tanzanian
city. The hands-on experience will help them teach the
model to local churches more effectively.
After
completing the initial ten-week internship program,
the team will return to the U.S. to raise funds to spend
three years in Tanzania to teach what they have learned
to indigenous churches across the country.
 "AIMS
now offers training in this internship model,"
said Abraham. "This fills a niche in the body of
Christ. If a church or agency needs a model for training
and deploying missionary teams... we have it."
Fuel
International began sending short-term teams into Tanzania
after an AIMS seminar in 1999. They adopted the Somalis
in Tanzania and located a settlement of 6,000 Somali
refugees where they have sent short-term teams to build
homes, administer medical clinics, dig wells, paint
school buildings, and build relationships with the refugees.
This mobilization effort grew out of their desire to
more effectively reach the Somali people for Jesus Christ.
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