The Missionary Internship Program (MIP) is designed in such a way to emulate the Jesus model of how he discipled and equipped his disciples. “….that they might be with him and that he might send them out to preach….” Mark 3:14.

From the very beginning Jesus’s strategy was, to be with; this involved a personal contact with his disciples where he talked, taught and equipped as they went along with him. They saw him and learnt by observation, their own questions and Jesus’s well-crafted questions to them. So each MIP participant is connected to a missionary who walks alongside him, it’s from this relationship that one learns by observation, asking questions, being asked questions, well-crafted lessons/studies and lots of readings. Each individual missionary may have different ways of teaching the participants but the aims are always the same; to inspire, clarify and equip.

Secondly, to send them; Jesus would then send them out to apply what they were learning and there after evaluate their motivations and their work. Like at one point they came back rejoicing about the demons obeying them and he is quick to remind them that was not the important thing. So also the missionary assigned to the participant assigns them tasks that will help teach, challenge their beliefs and grow their character. Usually these tasks flow from what they have been learning and observing.

MIP is a six month program that has been designed to help the African church get the hands on mission exposure and equipping:

• That will inspire devotion and passion for our King and His mission in other words, the pursuit of the one thing; His glory and worship among the nations.
  
  
• That seeks to challenge the myths, misconception and lies that have long kept the African church away from mission while equipping for long term missionary prospects or ministry back home.
  
  
• MIP intends to help one clarify their call whether be it as missionary far away from home or mobilizer back home or sender; fi­nd their feet and possibilities of carrying the call out as a Ugandan/African; and practical ways of how to actually accomplish the task at hand that the call demands.

 The program is held at the FMT campsite in Lotim, Kaabong.