AIM mobilizes and equips thousands of short-term missionaries.

Some write. Others want to. Maybe you’re one of them.

For more than a generation, Adventures in Missions has served people in need all over the world. In the process, God has enabled us to provide ministry training to thousands of young people and adults. Communicating about our programs and the work of so many short-term missionaries is a valuable part of every effort. Team members submit personal stories on a regular basis, allowing us to provide daily updates and reports. They challenge. They encourage. They inform.

Many of our missionaries write well. Others wish they could. Leaders in business and industry indicate that a need for practical training in writing is almost universal. We recognize the need as an opportunity for creative ministry. In response, AIM is announcing a new initiative, the AIM writing school, The Write Corps.

Popular NCAA television ads recently reminded viewers that most athletes pursue professional careers in something other than athletics. The same is true for AIM’s many short-term missionaries. Some become career missionaries. Most do not. And yet, all take with them the lessons they’ve learned. Why can't those lessons include a fresh, new ability to write well? We believe it can.

People who write well are desperately needed in every discipline, and we have a unique opportunity to offer personalized instruction and training to everyone who expresses a desire to enroll. As a student enrolled in the Write Corps program, you'll have the chance to fine tune your skills, tell stories of God’s work and His faithfulness, educate our readers, and encourage and challenge the church.

In a nutshell, here’s the plan: Through a dedicated website, mentors will teach student writers scattered across the nation and around the world. Write Corps staff will use an interactive curriculum, e-mail correspondence, updates and evaluations, and regular phone contact to train and encourage students serving in any location anywhere in the world. As a student, you’ll correspond with your mentor, and you’ll also exchange thoughts and ideas with other student writers while connected online.

Each one a working Christian writer or editor, members of the Write Corps staff already share a desire to honor God through the writing craft and are familiar with the standards of the profession. We enjoy writing and know what hard work it can be. As a young writer, you want to learn, add experience, develop relationships with other writers, make professional contacts, and serve the Lord while you do. We understand and want to encourage you.

Consider serving the Lord as a writer.

Writing is a spiritual act.

Eugene Peterson, pastor and author of dozens of books including the popular paraphrase of the Bible 
The Message, described the relationship between ministry and writing in a book of essays entitled
Reality and the Vision. “Being a writer and being a pastor are virtually the same thing for me: an entrance into chaos, the
mess of things, and then the slow mysterious work of making something out of it, something good, something blessed--poem, prayer, conversation, sermon, a sighting of grace, a recognition of love, a shaping of virtue. The recovery by creation and re-creation of the image of God. Writing is not a literary act but spiritual. And pastoring is not managing a religious business but a spiritual quest.”

To find out more about The Write Corps, enrollment costs and program particulars--how you might invest a year of your life, serve the Lord, meet the needs of others, and shape your skills as a writer--jot a quick note to us, in care of,
Writecorps@adventures.org. While serving the Lord and others, you might discover that writing is part of your own spiritual quest.