Michael Duncan » interMission

"At last! An opportunity for young adults to grapple with issues of life, faith and mission in a supportive, challenging and stimulating environment! I am delighted to endorse Intermission as a strategic and timely initiative for a crucial age group, and confidently recommend both the content and course leaders to you. I am sure that Intermission will prove to be a valuable and life changing experience for all those who embark on it, and a great gateway for young people into a mature faith which will engage significantly with the world."

Merrilyn Withers
National Youth Consultant - Baptist Youth Ministries

intermission is a gap year for those into mission.

intermission is for followers of Jesus who want to "give one year in service to God and to those God calls you to serve."

intermission is a gap year for those at the quarter life stage (17-22) needing to prepare for the next quarter of their lives.

intermission is a time for re-evaluation of life direction, rethinking of worldviews, refueling for discipleship, and reordering of priorities.

intermission will be a community and team event with personal mentoring.

intermission will take you to places where you may never have been before: prisons, refugee centers, Islamic mosques, Hindu Temples, poor neighborhoods, bi-cultural communities, Pacific nations, work environments, and you name it.

intermission will ask of you to critically reflect on action, to think through what you've been exposed to, so as to reconsider how you will do discipleship in the 21st Century.

intermission has the potential to become "the acceptable Year of our Lord".

Your study will include:

The New Testament Revisited

Morphing into leadership

Embracing youth culture

Worldview allegiances

Daring discipleship

Discovering God on Monday - Faith & Work

Critical exposure in another culture - Field trip

Connecting with Church - Ministry assignment

Mick Duncan
Michael (Mick) Duncan

Mick will be leading this new venture. He was converted out of the hippie drug culture and since then has worked in the slums on Manila, and in the cities of Dunedin, Melbourne and Auckland. He has written several books on mission and discipleship and has studied both sociology and theology. Currently he is a speaker through-out New Zealand and also overseas. At Carey Baptist College he lectures in the Applied Degree programs. Mick is married to Ruby who works amongst the poor and the needy in South Auckland and they have three children (22, 20 and 16).

Intermission

Heather Ameye-Bevers

Heather will also be a leader on a part time basis.
Heather Ameye-Bevers has been working in Youth ministry for 21 years and has a real passion to see men and women live out their faith for life. At 17 she became a Campus Life leader in Wellington Youth for Christ aimed at non-Christian young people. Trained as a Primary teacher but at 21 went part time leading a club with responsibility for discipleship for all Campus Life clubs. She married a stunning man and had two kids and headed up to Auckland as a Youth Pastor at Windsor Park Baptist. Since then she has finished her Applied Theology degree at Carey and become an Auckland Consultant for Baptist Youth Ministries.

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