Santa Cruz is a small beach town and an extremely expensive place to live. But God worked in someone’s heart and life to buy us a house to use specifically for interns. It is a large 5 bedroom house with an additional cottage in the back, right near downtown and half a mile from our church building. So interns will have no expenses for housing.

You don’t have to be in seminary to be part of this, although we have a partnership with Western Seminary in San Jose. If an intern goes to seminary, they get a really great tuition discount. Roles include youth ministry, children’s ministry, local and global compassion, music and creative arts.

This past year was our first year with Protege and we had 8 interns living in the home and serving on staff. It has been a great year and look forward to seeing what will happen this next year and who God will bring.

So, if you are interested in knowing about the Protege internship – go here to read more and contact Jesse West.