Intern Assignments

Required Reading:
As you read through the books please post your thoughts about the books on the staff blog as a part of your weekly post. 

  1. The Purpose Driven® Life: What on Earth Am I Here For? (Purpose Driven® Life, The) by Rick Warren
  2. Funding Your Ministry: Whether You're Gifted or Not by Scott Morton
  3. Chazown: khaw-ZONE - A Different Way to See Your Life by Craig Groeschel
  4. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable  by Patrick M. Lencioni
  5. The Art of Crossing Cultures by Craig Storti

Ministry Insights / Leading From Your Strengths Profile:

There is a helpful tool we use to help you and the field staff team understand your unique personality, strengths and weakness.  Go to this link: Ministry Insights  and purchase a "Leading From Your Strengths Profile". After purchasing and completing the Profile questions a copy of your report will be emailed to you.   After recieiving a copy of the results of the profile via email forward a copy to Tom Hackett. If you have any questions about purchasing the profile there is a Video tab with an explanation of what you will need to do on this page. See the "Video Tour" tab. To obtain a 25% discount follow the instructions below.
1. Shop the website and add the desired products to the shopping cart.
2. At the time of check out, insert the coupon code below into the Coupon Code box, then click “Apply” to instantly recalculate your shopping cart and receive your discounts.
COUPON CODE:  AM

Leading from your strengths workbook: (free download)   This 16-page self-paced workbook complements the Leading From Your Strengths Profile. It is designed to help you dig deeper and gain more from your profile, the workbook walks you through every section of your personal report. The questions will get you focused on the most important personal information from the report and help you create goals to apply to your life and impact your ministry. 

Shape Worksheet:

Download the worksheet, fill it out, make a copy of the worksheet for yourself and mail the original to: Alternative Missions / AMU, PO Box 5835, Goodyear, AZ 85338   Better yet if you can scan your worksheet and email it as a .pdf file that would be even better. If so; email the scanned document to Tom Hackett. 

Personal Ministry Plans and Goals Worksheet:

Download the worksheet, fill it out, make a copy of the worksheet for yourself and mail the original to: Alternative Missions / AMU,  PO Box 5835, Goodyear, AZ 85338   Better yet if you can scan your worksheet and email it as a .pdf file that would be even better. If so; email the scanned document to Tom Hackett.

Spiritual Gift Assessment:

Go to: http://www.elca.org/evangelism/assessments/spiritgifts.html and answer the questions.  Your results will be shown when you finish.  Please copy and paste the results in an email and send it to Tom Hackett.