Internship Applications

• U.S. Internship Application: Year 2010-2011 (pdf)
• International Internship Application: Year 2010-2011 (pdf)

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For more information please email Danielle Meyering

Come support the interns as they act in this original witty comedy at one of two performances Sunday May 2nd and Friday May 7th.

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Bethel Live – Here is Love (Whole Album)

Brian Johnson – Love Came Down (Whole Album)

Brian & Jenn Johnson – Taste and See, Broken for You, Undone, A Little Longer

Jesus Culture – Start with their new album “Consumed” and make your way through ALL their music. You will be wrecked.

Kim Walker – Here is My Song (Whole Album)

Cory Asbury – Check out….So Good to Me, Where I Belong, Faithful to the end, Beautiful Savior, Hallelujah, My Beloved

David Brymer – Restoration

Anthony Skinner – Beauty for Ashes, Prayer Medley ( I love Your Presence )

Enter the Worship Circle – These guys are just straight up amazing. You need to check out every song….but here’s a few to get you started….You Have Redeemed My Soul, Those Who Trust, I Could Run Away, First Love, I Cannot Hide My Love, Barely Know You, I Don’t Know, Wait On the Lord, Everlasting Love, To You, For My Ashes, Love Me Like That, Continue, All the Way Home, Trouble Won’t Go, Simple, Be Still, You are Mine, Safe Place, He Will Come

Jadon Lavik- The Road Acoustic ( Whole Album), Roots Run Deep (Whole Album) we really like his fresh cut of “Amazing Grace”

Kristene Mueller – Homeward Bound, Praise the Lord

Hillsong United – From the Inside Out, Nothing But the Blood, Lead Me to the Cross, Hosanna, Mighty to Save, Desert Song, All I need is You, Came to My Rescue(Live), None But Jesus, Shout Unto God, More Than Life, Consuming Fire, Awesome God, Majesty, Jesus’ Blood, Did you Feel the Mountains Tremble, Open Up the Heavens, High and Lifted Up

Justin Rizzo – Ascribe, Found Faithful, 84,

Luke Wood – Real Love, Jesus, My Lord, King & Priest

Misty Edwards – Relentless (Whole Album)

Nina Landis – Why, Tension, Greatest Weapon

Sarah Edwards – Dark but Lovely

Sarah McMillan – Flesh and Bone, Bright Wings

Shawn McDonald – All I need, Don’t Walk Away, Take My Hand

Spring Harvest – Be My Everything

This is Kim Walker-Smith from Bethel Church in Redding, CA and the band “Jesus Culture”. www.jesusculture.com

I used to know in my mind that God loved me, but deep down I considered myself disqualified for what I had done in my past and all the sins I committed. I wondered how a perfect God could look at someone as dirty as me and see beauty. I truly believed He loved others, but I didn’t believe He felt the same about me. I thought that He just tolerated me because He is a God of Love and He had to. Right? Maybe if I did the best I could every second of the day, and sinned as little as I possibly could, then I could be less ashamed when I worshipped during church, or when I prayed, or talked to other people about Him. But I found this to be exhausting and I always failed at it. So on top of not feeling loved, I felt like a failure. How could I move forward in my calling, my destiny, my own relationship with God when I couldn’t even get past the basics? If I couldn’t understand how God loved me, how could I help others much more broken than me understand? How could I have a deep and loving relationship with Jesus Christ when I never trusted in His love?

1 John 4:8 says that ” God is love.” He loves all of us because He is love. I don’t consider myself and expert on this topic by any means, and I’m still learning how God feels about me every day. But as each morning comes, I choose to believe that He does love me, not for who I am or what I can do, but because it’s who He is. Humans have a finite mind and we are very limited in our understanding. But God is infinite, and He is full of beautiful mysteries that will not all be revealed until heaven. We have to get past our own limited understanding and trust in His limitless love. ” Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will direct your path.” (Proverbs 3: 5-6)

Love is in His character, it’s part of His being, and it will never change. “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” (Hebrews 13:8) Knowing that God loves me isn’t this fuzzy feeling I carry around with me all day long. I’m not always going to feel it, but I can know it. Take, for example, a married couple. A husband and wife love each other and when they’re together they can show it and feel it. They will not doubt that love when they have a healthy relationship. But, when they go about their day at work, or with the kids, they aren’t going to feel love all the time. But that doesn’t mean that their spouse has stopped loving them; they still know they are loved even though it’s not being shown or felt at every moment. It’s the same thing with God, but 20,000 times stronger!

Maybe you feel too broken, too dirty, or too ashamed for what you’ve done. But God is the Healer and Restorer. Isaiah 61 says that He will “give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness.” The Lord did a great work in restoring and healing me from my past. In the last year and half  in The Rock Global Internship, my shame has been broken off, my purity has been restored, and I can now say that I truly know in my heart that God loves me. It still brings tears to my eyes when I think about His love and how He took me out of the dark pit and placed me on the solid ground. I will never be the same. For the remainder of my life on earth I will praise the Lord, serve Him with Joy, and proclaim His goodness. I’m no different than you; no more special, or loveable. Song of Solomon 4:9  says ” You have ravished my heart with one glance of your eyes.” You have undone the heart of God. He is ravished by one look of your eyes. Let go of the control you cling to, and allow God to woo you. Trust that He will do it, and not for what you do for Him, but because it’s who He is.

~ Second Year Intern Katie Hartline

Each of us has our own story. Each of us come from different backgrounds, ethnic origins, traditions, sub cultures and life experiences that contribute to the way we filter things, the way we communicate things and give us each our own unrivaled solo tune we sing. We were all made in His image but each of us was crafted with our own distinct way of expressing God’s heart. There is wisdom, understanding, perspectives and abilities you have gained through your journey that are different than those I’ve attained, yet equally as needed and cherished by the kingdom of God. Growing up we can be so swayed and ravaged by our culture, people and experiences that we often times forget the distinct beauty that we were crafted in. We are made to feel we need to be this way or that way. We are made to feel that what we have to say has no valid importance. That the abilities we have, have no significance. That whatever we’ve been given, the things that lie within us, the things that we represent, the way we express ourselves, the way we were made to be is simply not good enough and must be altered to fit a different mold. We can become oppressed and the beauty within us becomes locked in a prison of fear. Fear of failure, fear of rejection or perhaps simply not knowing and having the revelation of what novel gifts lie inside of us. I at times have fallen in all three categories. But over the last 3 years God has had me on a road to break off those fears and unearth those attributes and giftings that have been meticulously put in me. Some of those things have been there since the beginning and some of them have been conceived along the way through life experiences and the cultivation of an intimate relationship with Him. In time He births the beauty that lies within us. We are involved in the greatest group project that ever will exist – the kingdom of God. God is the fuel, the power, the mover and the shaker. He began it and Jesus, through the power of the Holy Spirit, continues it in and through us until He brings it to completion one day. There is a reserved role that you are to play in the body of Christ. There are specific people God has for you to minister to. There are specific missions He has for you to expand the Kingdom. The roles in the Kingdom are diverse, each one of us are intricately shaped by the hand of God  to meet the needs to fill that role. Each role seeming to contrast the other but each one relevant to work alongside the others to complete the job. God invites all of us to contribute to this amazing building project – shaping the world, sharing His heart and vision, speaking words that encourage and bring life, feasting on grace in our relationships together, loving our neighbors as ourselves and inviting others to experience the love and healing that we have experienced in Him. Each one of us has a part in seeing it all come to fruition  in the restoration of lives, in the expansion of the Kingdom, in adding to the beauty which is His bride.

Shawn Wood once said, ” My hope is that people will realize that God is not waiting on them to become something they are not so they can do things they were never called to do, but that instead they will be the artist God has created them to be and do the things that they were uniquely created to do.”

May you be immersed in His love, may you allow Him to perfect what He’s already deposited in you and may you allow Him to draw it out of your well and may it never cease to flow.

How will you add to the beauty?

The fundraiser has come to a close. Thanks for all who supported the Inters and Drawn From Water!

Jeans aren’t the only problem in my life. Human instincts are trouble to my spirit and a heart bruised from penetrating sources. It’s a cycle: up, down, peace, stress, strong, weak. The operation has begun. First incision- the big toe. Several stitches and I am back on my feet. Life seems good. I’m getting ahead. The wound is healing and my spiritual health progresses. It doesn’t last long. More operations, now larger and more aggressive. Is there time to turn back? No, God’s my surgeon and what He says goes. Deep breath and I go back in. When the operations come to their temporary halt, I’m left in bandages, hurting. But my hurting heals rapidly. God’s presence is more present then ever. My desert is sprouting flowers.

At times I want the surgery to stop; it’s uncomfortable and difficult. Consistent stretching is tiresome but my outcome is worth it all. Freedom. Love. Joy. My list goes on and I look forward to the many operations God will be doing in my life.

- Katarina Garn, Second Yr Intern

Why are we so afraid to actually live wholeheartedly for God? To speak to people about Him, to pray for those who need healing? What makes us so afraid? If we truly believe that God is for us and is going to provide for us no matter what, then why don’t we trust Him enough to proclaim Him to others everyday! So I walk up to someone in the grocery store and tell them about Jesus and they think I’m stupid….so what! Is that really so awful? What’s the worst that could happen? Death? Torture? We live in America so the chances of that happening are next to nothing. So realistically what’s the worst thing? We lose our pride, we look differently, and we ruin a friendship. We get embarrassed? According to Ecclesiastes all these things are meaningless anyways. And why are we so timid when we do speak? We have Jesus so we should have more confidence than the world because we have the God of the universe living inside us.

How many people do we walk by everyday that have never heard of the gospel or who believe lies about it, and we never even give them the time of day. Yes, actions speak louder than words but to be honest I think that we, me especially, use that as an excuse to not step out in faith. I don’t want to watch people walk right into the pit of hell while I know the way out. Why am I so afraid? My prayer is that I would get out of my little comfort zone and reach out to the lost and broken.

- Justine Allen, Second Yr Intern

I was under leadership that truly understood the heart of God and will spend their lives passing that revelation on to others. All I noticed at first was the pain from the past, the difficulty of humbling myself, and how hard it was to leave the world behind and enter into a new lifestyle. But then, with a whisper, I realized I was changing.

It started with just a new perception of God as a Father, not a domineering authority figure that I was unable to grasp. Then I began seeing others as brothers and sisters, not people out to hurt me. Old mental patterns began to break and were replaced by thoughts of God. I could never explain when it changed, or the exact moment that I even realized it. But there are still moments when the revelation occurs to me that I am a different person. I am a person with a destiny, set apart, called by name. The Lord brought change gradually, because He knew my pain, and He healed me gently.

I wanted to experience God in a great wind, or an earthquake, or a fire; and there were times that I did. But He came to me and touched me in a whisper. I am more whole, more able to love others around me, and find all of my fulfillment in the living God of the universe. I am still changing, still learning, and still healing. But now I understand that it is an eternal God who changes me, not by my effort, but by His love.

–Katie Hartline, Second Yr. Intern