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For immediate release - 30/07/2009 16:21:57

>APPLY NOW: WCC INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME 2010

The World Council of Churches (WCC) will welcome five young people (aged  18-30 years) to serve as interns in its Geneva offices from February 2010  to January 2011. Interns bring valuable experiences to the WCC at the same  time as they undertake several modules of ecumenical learning.

The next 12 months' internship period begins in February 2010. In Geneva,  the interns will be assigned to one of the WCC working areas. They will  carry out their tasks in cooperation with programme staff and under  individualized supervision. During their stay in Geneva each intern is  expected to plan an ecumenical project to implement in his or her home  context when they return in February 2011.

The next generation of interns' areas of work will be 1. International  Ecumenical Peace Convocation ( http://www.overcomingviolence.org/iepc );  2. youth and ecumenical formation ( http://www.oikoumene.org/?id=3069 );  3. visitors programme ( http://www.oikoumene.org/?id=3185 )/media  relations ( http://www.oikoumene.org/?id=3432 ); 4. mission and  evangelism ( http://www.oikoumene.org/?id=3103 ); and 5. ecology (  http://www.oikoumene.org/?id=3127 )and social justice ( http://www.oikoum ene.org/?id=3117 ).

Successful candidates are people committed to the ideals of the ecumenical  movement, who will bring their energy, commitment and a fresh vision to  their specific work assignment. Applicants must send, along with their  application, background information about their church or Christian youth  network that will help them in implementing their proposed ecumenical  project.

Closing date for receiving applications for the five internships is 30  September 2009. As the ability to work in English is a necessary qualificat ion, applications must be written in English.

More information on the WCC internship programme:
http://www.oikoumene.org/?id=3187

Information requests and applications should be sent to: wccinterns@gmail.c om

Download the application form as pdf (400 KB): http://www.oikoumene.org/fileadmin/files/wcc-main/documents/p1/2010internsh ip_application.pdf
or as MS Word document (800 KB):
http://www.oikoumene.org/fileadmin/files/wcc-main/documents/p1/2010internsh ip_application.doc

Download the form to be filled in by the local church group supporting the  application as pdf (340 KB): http://www.oikoumene.org/fileadmin/files/wcc-main/documents/p1/2010internsh ip_sending_group_form.pdf or as MS Word document (620 KB):
http://www.oikoumene.org/fileadmin/files/wcc-main/documents/p1/2010internsh ip_sending_group_form.doc

Additional information:Juan Michel,+41 22 791 6153 +41 79 507 6363media@wcc -coe.org

The World Council of Churches promotes Christian unity in faith, witness  and service for a just and peaceful world. An ecumenical fellowship of  churches founded in 1948, today the WCC brings together 349 Protestant,  Orthodox, Anglican and other churches representing more than 560 million  Christians in over 110 countries, and works cooperatively with the Roman  Catholic Church. The WCC general secretary is Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia, from  the Methodist Church in Kenya. Headquarters: Geneva, Switzerland.