Missionary Care Intern

Missionary Care plays a crucial role in ensuring missionaries are equipped, prepared, and sustained healthily in order to serve well. As a Missionary Care intern you will have the opportunity to see firsthand how we serve our missionaries through care, as well as research and build up our care resources.

• Research and provide up to date content (under 10 years old) of clinical research, "translated" to efficacy and solution based pastoral care practical application for care providers to utilize for meaningful, solution-based pastoral care.
• Purchase with oversight and build four Third Culture Kid Debriefing kits for OMS USA and Global missionary care providers to properly provide compassionate and committed care to missionary kids and their families.
• Organize resources in centralized location, practically building digital folders for high areas of needs, to include organizing them per regions.
• Collaborate with OMS USA to build a missionary care podcast for families, inviting missionaries and their families to share their stories of missionary needs, victories, challenges, and how their comprehensive missionary fitness prevails. (2 episodes minimum).
• Assist with Missionary Kid recognitions for graduates and the MK scholar process.
• Assist Director of Missionary Care in updating coursework for Leaving Well and Single/Married missionaries on the field.
• Create one case study for self-assessment and evaluative review, addressing pastoral care provision and providing a gospel centered, sincerely curious witness (with oversight) to serving a need of an OMS USA staff member or missionary in mock counsel.
• Organize an intern connection group, wherein all interns meet to bolster one another’s spiritual formation as part of comprehensive fitness, strengthening what it means to care for oneself and others.

• Independent work ethic, with a sincere curiosity to ask clarifying questions, and set reasonable goals on taskings required.
• Giftings in administrative details, keen interest in research.
• Media giftings for podcast, to include podcast tools for media sharing.
• Pastoral care commitment, not limited to clinical care.
• Heart for missions, global study, and a posture of humility.
• Would like to view case studies already created, personal reflections, missional interest/travel, research from behavioral studies- preferably psychology, and education.
• Preferably a Senior aiming to continue in Master’s level studies in chaplaincy, pastoral care, psychology, missions, and human interest.

• Dates: May 18 - July 24, 2026
• Location: OMS Headquarters in Greenwood, Indiana
• Hours per week: 40
• Compensation: $10 an hour
• Housing: Included at OMS Headquarters
• Application deadline: January 15, 2026